{"id":13981,"date":"2022-07-13T13:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T04:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=13981"},"modified":"2022-07-13T13:32:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T04:32:34","slug":"20220713-13981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220713-13981\/","title":{"rendered":"Konami is preparing to bring back delisted Metal Gear Solid games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Written by. Nick Mosier based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20220713-210148\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a> (original article&#8217;s publication date: 2022-07-13 12:11<\/em> <em>JST)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Konami Digital Entertainment announced on July 13 (JST) that they are preparing to bring back the temporarily delisted titles in the <em><strong>Metal Gear Solid<\/strong><\/em> series after certain games were taken off of storefronts in November of last year (<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20211108-5746\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">related article<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">1987\u5e747\u670813\u65e5\u306b\u767a\u58f2\u3055\u308c\u305f\u300eMETAL GEAR\u300f\u30b7\u30ea\u30fc\u30ba\u306f\u3001\u672c\u65e535\u5468\u5e74\u3092\u8fce\u3048\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<br>\u4e00\u6642\u8ca9\u58f2\u3092\u505c\u6b62\u3057\u3066\u304a\u308a\u307e\u3059\u30bf\u30a4\u30c8\u30eb\u306b\u304a\u3044\u3066\u3001\u8ca9\u58f2\u518d\u958b\u306e\u305f\u3081\u306e\u6e96\u5099\u3092\u9032\u3081\u3066\u304a\u308a\u307e\u3059\u3002\u3000<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/METALGEAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#METALGEAR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MG35th?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MG35th<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X7RL5du2qE\">pic.twitter.com\/X7RL5du2qE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30e1\u30bf\u30eb\u30ae\u30a2\u516c\u5f0f (METAL GEAR) (@metalgear_jp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/metalgear_jp\/status\/1547023739371790336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption><font size=\"2\"><strong>Tweet Translation:<br><\/strong>Today marks the 35<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the <em>Metal Gear<\/em> series with the original game releasing on July 13, 1987. As for the temporarily delisted titles, we are currently preparing to put them on sale once again.<\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>Metal Gear Solid<\/em> is a stealth action series created by Hideo Kojima. The original <em>Metal Gear<\/em> was released on July 13, 1987, making today the 35<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the series. With their emphasis on stealth gameplay and dense stories, the games remain popular with fans even today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, ports of the PlayStation 2 titles <em>Metal Gear Solid 2<\/em> and <em>Metal Gear Solid 3<\/em> are delisted from digital storefronts. The delisted games are as follows:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fbfbfb\">\u30fbPlayStation\u00ae3 METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SONS OF LIBERTY HD EDITION<br>\u30fbPlayStation\u00ae3 METAL GEAR SOLID 3 SNAKE EATER HD EDITION<br>\u30fbPlayStation\u00ae3 METAL GEAR SOLID HD EDITION<br>\u30fbPlayStation\u00aeVita METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SONS OF LIBERTY HD EDITION<br>\u30fbPlayStation\u00aeVita METAL GEAR SOLID 3 SNAKE EATER HD EDITION<br>\u30fbPlayStation\u00aeVita METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION<br>\u30fbPlayStation\u2122Now METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION<br>\u30fbXbox 360 METAL GEAR SOLID HD EDITION: 2 &amp; 3<br>\u30fbNintendo 3DS METAL GEAR SOLID SNAKE EATER 3D<br>\u30fbGOG.com METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SUBSTANCE<br>\u30fbNVIDIA\u00ae SHIELD\u2122 METAL GEAR SOLID 2 HD for SHIELD TV<br>\u30fbNVIDIA\u00ae SHIELD\u2122 METAL GEAR SOLID 3 HD for SHIELD TV<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.konami.com\/mg\/jp\/info\/874\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">official statement<\/a> from Konami, sales were suspended due to delays in license renewals for certain historical archive footage in the games. Each of these titles contains live-action footage such as the nuclear explosion footage used in <em>Metal Gear Solid 3<\/em>, but Konami did not specify what footage was in need of license renewal.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220713-210148-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220713-210148-001.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220713-210148-001-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220713-210148-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220713-210148-001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220713-210148-001-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220713-210148-001-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220713-210148-001-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220713-210148-001-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220713-210148-001-747x420.jpg 747w\" \/><figcaption><em>Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater HD Edition<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Konami said they were making preparations to put the games on sale once again back in November of last year but had remained silent on the issue for over 6 months until today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The temporarily delisted games are generally for previous generation consoles, so most fans probably own copies already. However, there are fans clamoring for the return of <em>Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance<\/em> on PC through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gog.com\/wishlist\/games\/metal_gear_solid_2_substance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GOG.com<\/a>. Hopefully Konami can make these games available for fans again as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Konami Digital Entertainment announced that they are preparing to bring back the temporarily delisted titles in the Metal Gear Solid series after certain games were taken off of storefronts in November of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":13984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-13981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Konami is preparing to bring back delisted Metal Gear Solid games - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Konami Digital Entertainment announced that they are preparing to bring back the temporarily delisted titles in the Metal Gear Solid series after certain games were taken off of storefronts in November of last year.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220713-13981\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Konami is preparing to bring back delisted Metal Gear Solid games - 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