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Arkhound wrote: It's been eons since I've last played it, but didn't Portable Ops have a lot of portable gimmicks that wouldn't have translated well into home consoles? I remember one of the game's features involves accessing wi-fi spots to generate new troops.

Also, the whole game was pretty much Metal Gear Online ported to the PSP, with the story mode being something of an afterthought (after all, MPO+ didn't even kept the story mode). Porting MPO to home consoles would also mean bringing back its online functionality, which is probably a hassle Konami wants to avoid entirely (seeing how they shut down the online servers for both, MGO and MPO, not long ago).

Regarding your theory about MPO's story (namely your reference to MPO+), I seem to recall that Integral did something similar: The entire game was pretty much VR missions alone, and didn't even include the story mode, so I doubt that MPO+'s gameplay was meant to imply that MPO had an excuse plot.