'However, following the disappointing performance of recent in-house titles Metal Gear Survive and Contra: Rogue Corps, VGC’s sources said the company has become more willing to contract outside studios for its major franchises. 'Konami’s Japanese bosses are understood to have historically pushed back against most pitches to outsource its key games brands,' VGC wrote in 2021. Virtuos has an extensive list of credits for contributions to triple-A games and has contributed to Switch ports for Dark Souls Remastered, Dying Light, and The Outer Worlds, among others. A remaster would mark the first time MGS3 has been released on PC.Īccording to VGC Metal Gear Solid 3 will also be getting a ground-up remake from Virtuos, a Singaporean game company with 15 offices and 3000+ employees across the world. Konami has also been focusing their energies more on their casinos and pachinko machines since the split, with less and less of their resources going to their games. Both games were originally released for the PlayStation 2 and remastered for consoles in the 2011 HD Collection. The death of Metal Gears only engine adds to the franchises resigned fate. Given how long it's taken for Konami to bring back MGS2 and 3, it would make sense to hold off on selling them again until the remastered versions are complete.

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