@ -Spock- I read the Lost Planet engine comment too over at Playsyde. If that's the case, Lost Planet could easily be ported over to the PS3, but it seems Capcom would rather keep 360 games exclusive and make former exclusives multiplat for them if this is how the situation pans out :roll: And MGS4 would need to be completely reworked to be ported over to another console in it's current state. It's supposed to make use of the PSP connectivity, SIXAXIS, and the Cell so that would be more money spent trying to port when Konami is trying to make money :| Kojima himself doesn't want to waste the time or resources on a port because he's trying to break away from the MGS Universe and working on a port at that for an unintended system would leave a sour taste for his last MGS game (supposedly).
And I don't why Konami is concerning themselves at this point. A lot of PS fans / MGS fans I've talked to are waiting for MGS4 to release before picking up a PS3 and by then, the number of consoles out should be good enough for them, or they alone will help sell consoles. Announcing it being multiplatform would ruin that case for many.
-Zaku-
Of coarse Lost Planet could be ported over to PS3, even Capcom are considering that.
"We will try to keep it as a 360 exclusive," Takeuchi said. "But, from the company's point of view, when you think about the business, in the future it's something we might have to do."
I have read about Capcom's future plans of ditching exclusive titles after Devil May Cry 4, but considering the time frame until its release, a port could indeed be feasible. Lost Planet comes out in January, so it is pretty much complete. I don't think they would bother trying to port a finished game unless it's met with lacklustre sales like Takeuchi stated (but after the announcement of 1 million Lost Planet downloads over XBL and the past success of Dead Rising on the platform, I don't see a failure arising). It sucks yes, but we'll have to wait and see since this is all purely speculation.
As for Metal Gear Solid 4, it is even less likely to arrive on the 360 than DMC4. You mention the Cell which the game is built from the ground up for, yet in a past IGN interview Kojima claimed the Xbox 360 could handle it power-wise. The only problem he sees is a capacity problem (the advantage of Blu-Ray) but multi-discs aren't completely out of the question - Metal Gear Solid came on two discs due to the linearity. I don't think a port is completely out of the question: a small team can easily be set aside to do this like what Tecmo are doing with Ninja Gaiden: Sigma. That means Kojima doesn't need to be bothered with the port while he works on his Wii project.
PSP connectivity can be removed since it plays no essential role in the game and SIXAXIS features can also be stripped and replaced with rumble. It would detract from the experience yes, but a feature trade off could work. I do agree with you though that Konami would need to spend money to reconfigure it on the 360 due to very different architecture, but with the potential of a future 15 million Xbox 360 users, it could be a "spend money to make money" situation.
The final point I should make is that I doubt it would be released at the same time. Like Virtua Fighter 5 it would have to be released later than the PS3 version, and an announcement of going multi-format would come after it had been on PS3 for a while. If MGS4 did come to the 360, it would be in 2008 at the earliest, or as a subsequent part of the reduxed version every Metal Gear Solid has undergone starting with Integral and ending with Subsistence.
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