Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-6747658-20140622220237/@comment-1672596-20140831110252

Paranoid Donkey wrote: Small Boss wrote: Disappointed with no release date yet, but was still stoked to see that magazine "Q4" bit... theres a reason why he posted that photo. Why else would he take a picture of his own game in a mag... I kind of see it as a hype-building exercise, myself. Almost as if Kojima's saying "Get ready, guys!".

I'm very skeptical about this revealing a real release window, but it's like you all say, Kojima is a grand master of misdirection and it's highly unlikely that he didn't notice the date.

Yeah, and based on my experience with gaming magazines such as Nintendo Power, Tips and Tricks, or Electronic Gaming Monthly, coverage of these games, whether it be pre-release information, behind the scenes information such as interviews, or even actual coverage of strategies, generally take much more than one or two pages to cover, and since the article was clearly focusing on The Phantom Pain, he could have chosen any of the pages to get the point across that he was wanting to show The Phantom Pain if that's what he wanted, so I'm more than a little certain that he was showing the release date period.