An Old Snake returned to the battlefield once more, as Hideo Kojima yet again took the stage alongside Sony to showcase the NGP. His offering was not a game announcement; rather it was an in-game demo of Metal Gear Solid 4 being run on the portable device.
Kojima explained that the demo being shown at the time was simply a “scene exported directly to NGP.” He noted that they simply had to extract model data and environments from MGS4, and that this title was on the “same quality as [the] PS3.”
"When we launched Peace Walker for PSP, this is what I said: In the near future there will be a world of cloud computing... I really believe that you can have a portable MGS and Peace Walkerwas an experiment for the cloud computing future. NGP allows this cloud computing."
Cloud computing was a topic of major discussion for Kojima, who sounded excited as he discussed the future that this technology could bring.
"What I'd like to realize is playing on your PS3, and when you go out, you put the game on your NGP, and when you come back home, you can once again use your PS3 and large screen TV," he said.
Kojima related this new venture as a dream that he wishes to see fulfilled. To that end, he is currently working on an unnamed project that will see his dream fulfilled. "This dream is going to come true in the near future. And right now, I'm working on this project of the dream. I'm sorry, I can't reveal this now. But we'd like to present what we're doing at E3," he said.
Perhaps Kojima knows something about the future of PlayStation we don't? Who knows, it's possible that PlayStation 4 won't really be a console at all, and everything could exist in a cloud.
