Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-184.17.219.191-20141222025600/@comment-1672596-20150104135956

42.98.58.239 wrote: I would like to be navie this time to believe that 24 Feb 2015 is still a realistic release date for the below reasons.

1. Although release date is yet to be officially announced, but the retailers have no role to announce anything at all, they simply put a date there and I think information they (more than one) give has some reliability. On the other hand, 24 Feb has not been officially denied -- either. What I am saying is, if Konami thinks everything can patch together by a certain date in the very near future (which I think Ocelot's voice actor said things are getting very close recently), all that it takes is for Kojima to "officially announce" it.

2. Yong noted a Kojima twit for editing tralier and thinks that it is for MGSV. I am instead expecting that for Silent Hills. I mean Yong is good at finding video game clues but that doesn't mean he is always right at his predictions (and while he was disappointing to learn that Kojima is revealing the Chicken Hat on X'mas, but not the release date, I actually wondered what his logical base is to have such expectation).

Anyway, I still hope to get MGSV on 24 Feb 2015. Isn't Microsoft also one of the guys alongside Sony who are actually distributing the game via their systems and not just retailers? I would be more inclined to believe them regarding a release date than something like Best Buy. Sure, it's not Konami, but you'd think they would be the first to know from them the release date especially when they would have every reason to need to know so they can prepare the discs and ship them to stores.