Metal Gear Solid V PC is On Time, Its Online Mode Isn’t

<p><em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;metal-gear-solid-vs-easy-mode-makes-wear-chicken-hat&sol;">Metal Gear Solid V&colon; The Phantom Pain<&sol;a><&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s headed our way just weeks from now this <strong>Sept&period; 1st&period; <&sol;strong>Konami tells us that its PC version will now hit the same day as its console versions – nearly two weeks ahead of its initial date&period; Its online mode of Metal Gear Online&comma; however&comma; is another matter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Metal Gear Online<&sol;em> will<strong> Oct&period; 6th<&sol;strong> and it&&num;8217&semi;ll launch on Steam for PC users sometime in <strong>January 2016&comma; <&sol;strong>the Konami Blog claims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We initially did not think it would be possible to get such an epic game out onto PC in time for launch alongside its console counterparts&comma; but all involved have worked diligently to meet the demands of our PC consumers&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Tomotada Tashiro&comma; President of Konami Digital Entertainment B&period;V&period; said&period; &&num;8220&semi;We feel confident that Steam users will be satisfied with the contents we will provide for the Steam version&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At over 200x the size of its prologue&comma; last year&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Metal Gear Solid&colon; Ground Zeroes<&sol;em>&comma; <em>The Phantom Pain<&sol;em> is easily the biggest series entry to date&comma; something Konami&&num;8217&semi;s not shy at boasting about&period; <em>Ground Zeroes<&sol;em> already <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;metal-gear-solid-5-gz-shipped-1-million-copies&sol;">sold over a million copies<&sol;a> on its own with mixed reception&comma; though we were on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;short-deadly-sweet-metal-gear-solid-v-ground-zeroes&sol;">the positive side<&sol;a> ourselves&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Like <em>Ground Zeroes<&sol;em>&comma; <em>The Phantom Pain<&sol;em> will boast 4K graphics and enhanced for those with NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards&sol; For a limited time&comma; owners of qualifying GeForce GTX GPUs will also get a free copy of The Phantom Pain to boot&comma; Konami says&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you pre-order you PC copy of The Phantom Pain for Steam&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll also land yourself a free copy of Ground Zeroes too&period; A behind-the-scenes documentary&comma; an in-game &&num;8220&semi;Venom Snake&&num;8221&semi; emblem&comma; and additional Mother Base Staff will also be available to Steam users&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>The Phantom Pain<&sol;em> will launch for both console generations&colon; Playstation 4&comma; Xbox One&comma; Playstation 3&comma; Xbox 360&comma; and PC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk-blog&period;konami-europe&period;com&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;03&sol;mgsvtpp-steam-release-date-now-sept-1st&sol;">The Konami Blog<&sol;a> &lpar;UK&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;