Metal Slug 3 PS2 is NOT NOT coming stateside.

[Bratwurst]

Article at 1UP.com

What a shock, SNK was shot down by Sony. I don't plan on ever getting into anything post PS1 myself but it still bothers me that this happens.

[Captain Wrong]

BALLS! THIS SUCKS!!!!! KILL SONY!!!!! BOOOOO!!!!!!!!

*turns around and sees Neo Geo on the floor*

Wait a min...I guess it's not that big a deal for me, but I do feel for those who don't own a Neo. Gaah. I wonder why the thumbs down and what does that say about Sony's mindset that it's ok for Japan but not for the US? What a bunch of assclowns.

[GrandAmChandler]

Yeah I dont understand the reasoning there, it could only benefit Sony by porting this over right?

[buttasuperb]

I already have the MVS kit.

Sony is retarded though.

[norkusa]

Yeah I dont understand the reasoning there, it could only benefit Sony by porting this over right?

Thats not the way Sony sees it. In their eyes, us Americans only like to play 3D-adventure games and insipid RPG's. We'll never get to see fun games like this.

[Ed Oscuro]

Now I really wonder if the stories that they said Half Life wouldn't appear on the PS2 if it did on the DC are true after all...

[Kroogah]

God I'm so glad I got rid of my U.S. PS2 for a Japanese one.

[Kid Fenris]

Yeah I dont understand the reasoning there, it could only benefit Sony by porting this over right?

Thats not the way Sony sees it. In their eyes, us Americans only like to play 3D-adventure games and insipid RPG's. We'll never get to see fun games like this.

If I were a betting man, I'd say that Sony's denial of Metal Slug 3 has less to do with the game itself and more to do with the working relationship between SNK and SCEA. Atlus was able to release Disgaea (which could pass for a PSone game), while Sammy brought out the entirely 2-D Guilty Gear X2. It would seem that Sony isn't uniformly biased against old-fashioned 2-D titles, they're just biased against old-fashioned 2-D titles from certain publishers.

By the way, doesn't the PS2 version of Metal Slug 3 have a number of extra modes that weren't in the Neo-Geo original? I really dug the bonus stuff in the PSone edition of Metal Slug X, so I'm more interested in the PS2 port of MS3 than the Neo version.

I'm tempted to send Sony a letter about this, even though I haven't written to a game company in ten years.

[Bratwurst]

It's been touched on before (I want to say by Mr. Zach Meston but I won't deliberately misquote the man) that Sony doesn't like 'old' games to be ported over unless they're compilations and sold at a budget label.

If you ask me Playmore is just being greedy by trying to pawn off Slug 3 by itself, if a bundle came out with 1, 2, X and 3 though, I'd buy that in a heartbeat with intentions of getting a PS2 later for it and it alone down the road.

[Half Japanese]

This is pretty fucking bad news.

See, I was going to get a ps2 this fall JUST FOR THIS GAME. I shit you not. I was planning to get one right before Christmas so I could play this game (I love the NGPC ones). Oh well, it's not like Sony will miss my $200. I swear, it's little shit like this that makes me want to mailbomb Sony's corporate offices (that's a joke, by the way).

[ddockery]

Damn, you're telling me that Sony actually APPROVED all of the shit titles that are out there, but won't give this a go? This is obviously some political BS, because there's some aweful shitty games out there.

[Retsudo]

Damn, you're telling me that Sony actually APPROVED all of the shit titles that are out there, but won't give this a go? This is obviously some political BS, because there's some aweful shitty games out there.

I totally agree with you. Sony must be smokin something

[Li Wang]

It's been said that they also turned down Ys I and II Eternal Story earlier this year, though that isn't much of a loss since it's just an average remake.

[ubersaurus]

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/453/453518p1.html


Says SNK, Metal Slug 3 is still coming stateside.

[autobotracing]

That would be the dumbest mistakes ever if its not released here!!!!!!!!!!

[Ed Oscuro]

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/453/453518p1.html


Says SNK, Metal Slug 3 is still coming stateside.

Ah, good.

[Bratwurst]

Thread title ammended with a double negative to cancel it out.

[Ed Oscuro]

lmao!

[Kid Ice]

Boooooo!!!!! I mean, YAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!! I mean...uh...never mind.

[ManekiNeko]

Heh, so much for Sony's claims that they aren't biased against 2D games. I can't help but wonder how they manage to stay so popular when they have so little concern for their customers. I have to believe that some day, some day, all their arrogance and underhanded schemes will come back to haunt them. Atari thought it was unstoppable, too... but where are they now?

JR