In approximately 23 hours, at the time of writing, there's going to be some sort of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain announcement. The news comes courtesy of the game's official Japanese website, which features a stylish countdown.
So, what's it going to be? Well, the obvious bet is that the title's finally getting a concrete release date, but with this series, anything is possible. Still, with the title tentatively slated to launch at some point this year, a confirmed date sooner rather than later would make sense.
What are you hoping for? Do we even have to ask? Pester David Hayter in the comments section below.
Update: Whoops, we've made a slight -- but hopefully understandable -- error on this one. The countdown actually has 1 day and 23 hours, not just 23 hours. Clearly in our excitable haste, we missed the day counter entirely, so we apologise for spreading such terrible misinformation.
As such, this means that the announcement is actually happening on Wednesday. We really hope that you didn't book tomorrow off work or anything.
[source konami.jp]
Comments 23
HYPE.
Wait for it...
Its part of the March PS+ free game collection!
Mind Blown!
@Maxamus Best answer.
We will hope for release date news but it will just be Kojima announcing that big boss is the main character.
No bum-numbingly long cutscen... hahahaha. Couldn't even write it.
knowing kojima this could be anything, I await with anticipation
@FullbringIchigo true, and even if it isn't a release date, I'm sure he's got something exciting up his sleeve. I mean, the guy covertly revealed his big new game under an obscure name, and using a fake game developer. For them to be putting a big, brash countdown on it, it's gotta be something worthwhile!
EDIT: I'm also thinking it must be something big that they're pretty excited about showing off, as any smaller announcement you'd think they would have just waited a couple weeks so they could announce it on the anniversary of GZ.
New chicken mask incoming
Rufio? Yu-Gi-Oh? No, it's MGO!
Tag: "Announcements of Announcements". That made me crack up.
Well I'm excited. I need to get back to replaying Snake Eater now that I think about it.
Expect nothing and you'll never be disappointed...
I'm srsly hoping for a confirmed release date, but at the same time I won't be surprised if this is sumthin else.
@Maxamus bahahahaha. Now that would be worth the extra weekend wait.
They're releasing a playable demo? No, wait.
It's obviously going to be another new version of the cardboard box.
I'm pretty sure this whole thing is a social experiment showing what happens when you have years of massively mediocre announcements.
@Maxamus if that happens, holy hell. It would be 500% awesome.
Knowing Kojima the trolliest of the trolls, it'll probably be a 3 hour conference ending with the announcement: "the tranquilliser darts in MGS5 could potentially take down TWO elephants. Thanks all, have a good evening".
(MGS2 reference BTW)
Come ooooonnnn release date!
I personally would like to finally see the PS3 version in action.
Either that, or simultaneous PC release 😊
Box PS4 theme.
I'm way too excited for this game. I've went ahead and decided to order a 2TB hard drive to put inside my PS4 to be prepared for the rest of the huge game installs that I'm sure we're going to encounter from here on out, and I'm sure this game will take up quite a bit chunk. I've already went up to 1TB already, but I have the feeling that its not going to be enough for me with the way I purchase games.
Huh what was that noise?
Strange how the boys at don't have been mute about playstation plus this month. I'm wondering if ground zero is gonna make this months game collection.
There has to be something else as well. I think a special edition ps4 to accompany the phantom pain.
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