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Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes Gets Official Price Drop

Konami cuts price for all boxed versions of the game to $20.

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Konami announced today that Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is getting an official price drop.The boxed version of the game is now available across Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4 for $20.

If you're in the market for a digital copy, you can buy the game today on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network for $20 on Xbox 360 and PS3. However, the digital version continues to sell for $30 across Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Looks like a boxed copy is the cheapest way to go right now.

A PC version of Ground Zeroes, which supports 4K resolution, will launch through Steam in December.

Set in 1975 on a prison base called Camp Omega, Ground Zeroes challenges players to infiltrate the base using a combination of stealth and action mechanics. Despite controversy over its length, Ground Zeroes has sold over 1 million copies to date.

Ground Zeroes is the prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which will launch in 2015 for Xbox One and PS4. A PC version of the game is also in the works, though Konami has not announced when it will be released.

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Without even reading them first, allow me to summarise the below comments section; a veritable 'Greatest Hits' if you will...

'Should have been this much in the first place!!!!!11 2 little 2 late Kojima!!!'

'Still too much for a DEMO lolz'

'I can't believe they were selling this demo for so much 2 begin wiv I'm neva buying anutha konami game AGEN!!!'

'Shud hav bin included wiv te fantom payne neways!'

'Kojima sux'

'Konami sux'

'Mettull geer SUX!!!!'

I just saved you all 20 minutes, no need to thank me ;-)

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Took me 20 minutes to read what you wrote, the way you type.


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Haha, perhaps I should have stressed the fact that I was taking the pee out of people that type that way and don't actually do so myself ;-)

And yes, I was exaggerating that style of typing should any confusion still remain!

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The only way I'm buying GZ or TPP is if TPP's price gets cut by the amount they are charging for GZ. GZ should have been included as part of TPP for $60. If you let them sell you a prologue for $30 ($20 now), what is next? They'll turn the game episodic and sell you act 1 for $30, then Act 2 for $30, all the way to Act 5 or whatever, and you end up paying 3 times as much as you would for the same game. Then they'll charge you for the conclusion/epilogue, another $30.


Sorry Kojima, but I won't stand for this. You say you released GZ to "tide us over" while we wait for TPP, but how is a 2 hour game going to tide us over for 18 months? 2 hours that we have to pay $30 for the priviledge of playing? I hope TPP tanks, and no other develop starts getting ideas about selling the prologue separately.

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How gracious of Konami to discount their demo. They really are good people. :)

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For the love of...

Anyone and everyone. Explain to me, why you assume this is a demo. Because as far as I'm concerned, it's not a demo.
Since when have you seen a demo contain as much content, detail and polish as this? Because I sure as sin haven't.

P.T. was a demo - it was polished, but it didn't have much content, and it was demonstrative of the potential game's play style.

The only way in which MGSV:GZ is even close to a demo is its demonstration of the gameplay. Nothing more.
Yes, its main mission is short, but there are more missions to do outside that, and there are, simply, too many things in it to call it a demo.

Oh, and I've bought Blu-Rays that are more expensive than this. I paid £25, and I got more than my money's worth.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Even Konami states this game is pre beta- demo for TPP earlier this year.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> What you choose to call it is just splitting hairs. They broke off the opening act of the game and sold it for half the price of a full game. It should have just been part of the full game.


Kojima himself said that TPP's world will be 200X bigger than GZ. That means he sold 1/200th of a game to you for the price of 1/2 a game. Great value.


Detail and polish comes part and parcel with any demo. If a game has high production values, its demo will have just as high production values. If it's an indie game with pixel art, its demo will be an indie with pixel art. Simple. As for content, it was beaten in 3 minutes by a speedrunner. 10 minutes by anyone who already knows how to beat it. 1 hour for most other people. There are better things I'd rather spend $30 on. I could go to the movies twice with that, and get more hours of entertainment.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> it's like I'm selling you a slice of pizza, for the same price as a full pizza.

it is a demo.

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I am waiting until it is 5 or no buy. It is a DEMO!

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Gonna stick to my guns on this one. No buy until it's bundled with phantom pain and $60

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Its worth twice that so it is a good deal.

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soo on steam it should be 10$?

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this game should be like 10 Euro because its just a glorified demo xD

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was kind of hoping it drop to $10

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Still wiaiting for this to drop to 10


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a few years ago, demos came for free, either bundled with the system, with other games, or with magazines

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<< LINK REMOVED >> That's nice. This isn't a demo though. Even though you think it is without understanding the point.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> This is a demo. The content is a tiny slice of what the full game will offer, the story is truncated and(again) fully developed in TPP, and the overall structure of the piece, has four times as much fluff content, as it does actual mechanics and information. It's a chance to play in a little tiny bucket of sand with MGS' new toys.

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Except it, you know, is.

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it's not news, it's been at this price for a few weeks now

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Take away the quality/length of the game, how can a game be more expensive digitally? I just dont get it. The cost to get the content to the consumer is more with physical media. Its just baffling!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Because when you think about it from a profit standpoint, someone is going to say "Meh, I could drive all the way to the store, but it's right here for only 10bucks more"

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I haven't touched this game since March.

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1 million for a demo. oh my..

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It's not a demo, but whatever.

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i say rent it .....if it is a short game


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<< LINK REMOVED >> You can beat the game in 10 minutes, it's extremely short

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> You can.

You probably won't, though. Unless you're actually really good.

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Konami can go and #$%^ themselves. It should have been free since it's nothing but a short demo. Not even worth $20. Simply trying to milk their fanboys. The fact that they purposely gimped the XB1 version by simplying porting the game from the PS4 instead of creating it from the ground up using all of the power of the system is unforgiveable. Then Kojima comes out and does PR and marketing for the PS4 version and bashes his own game on the other platforms, just shows us how biased and ignorant this fool really is. Myself and many other gamers lost respect for him after that fiasco. I won't be wasting my money of any MGS games in the future.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Not a demo

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<< LINK REMOVED >>i agree with you about the lack of value of gz. but i doubt you will be able to contain yourself once mgsv releases. it's gonna be good. if you really don't want to support kojima for persona reason, you could always purchase it used.

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On amazon its between £18 and £23 still :O depending which system.

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$20 seem's like a great $ for such a short game.

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Should I buy it, or wait for MGS5PP when it might be bundled with it anyway? Hmmmm...

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Wait. Either it will be bundled or it will be cheaper. Either way, unless you have nothing else to play, what's the point in buying now? You will probably have to play it again in 15mos to refresh your memory on what happened to get ready for 5, anyway.

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Looks like destiny took a page from MGSGZ. Lol

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Well it's down to the price it should have been from the start. By this point I have lost interest though. May as well wait until the mgsv / gz collection releases which will pack both games together.

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Cut another 10 and I'm in

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<< LINK REMOVED >> They could cut another $15 and I still won't buy it.

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That's pushing it a tad :D

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RIP OFF!! Do not buy and support paying for demos. This will allow doors to open for other developers to do this if you buy this demo!

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Darn straight, and has anyone noticed how rare demos have become?

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I enjoyed Metal Gear Solid Ground Zero's even though it was short. But I understood from the beginning that this was just a teaser. I had hoped to be playing Metal Gear The Phantom pain this holiday season. But it looks like this game will be ready for 2015 Christmas.

So if anyone still hasn't played Ground Zero's $20.00 for a very short game. or more of a Demo. I guess this is the a good of a time to do so.

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Kojima should be kicked in the balls for charging $ for a demo.

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Blame Konami for that..thats most likely their decision

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<< LINK REMOVED >> He's the second in command at Konami...

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His name seems kinda rhyme with the company he works with.... i dont know if its coincidence or not....konami....kojima...

Hideo Konami perhaps ? :D maybe he own a stock there...

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<< LINK REMOVED >> More like a beta test

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