Konami Delists Backwards Compatible MGS Title Ahead Of Master Collection Vol. 2 On Xbox

Delists one game so you have to buy the latest, more expensive version. Welcome to modern gaming. So much for digital preservation.

There's something to be said for hanging onto those older systems...

Thankfully I do just that and have a shiny new copy of Metal Gear Solid HD Collection.

Unfortunately, this has become a common practice among publishers — especially PlayStation, which has gotten into the habit of delisting older games before releasing the remasters. Thankfully, Xbox isn’t at that level yet; for example, you can still buy the original version of Oblivion even though the remaster is already out.

@fatpunkslim Especially playstation? can you provide a list of these games playstation has delisted then?

@themightyant A bit of good faith, please — you know very well it’s not the same thing. They didn’t release a remake of Forza Horizon. This is a licensing issue, and in this case it’s a loss, since we can’t buy the games anymore.

@Kiltedhaggis yes of course: Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4) / Uncharted 4: A Thief's End & Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (PS4) / Marvel’s Spider-Man (replaced by Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered) / UNTIL DAWN / etc...

To be fair, there are a few exceptions, like TLOU Part 2. And they’re not the only ones — Square Enix does the same thing, with the Resident Evil games for example.

@fatpunkslim Aside from not being able to buy any Forza games before Horizon 5 or Motorsport 8 they did this EXACT thing with Halo. You can’t buy any of the 360 editions because the Master Chief Collection exists. It is genuinely hilarious/pathetic how often you get called out on your nonsense and you still continue to spout it.

@Gemini53 I’m with you 100% in regard to keeping my old hardware and physical copies, but that bit about ‘so much for digital preservation’ isn’t reality.

Publishers and platform holders never intended digital purchases to benefit the consumer, it’s literally all for their own benefit. Always has been, always will be. It’s about stripping control away from the end user, and about retaining as much power and profitability as they possibly can. The only true preservation is either DRM free (think GoG) or a physical copy that no one can legally take away from you. People who buy hardware without disc drives or who have succumbed to the digital first mentality only feed the machine, then these same people complain about things like delistings and server shutdowns. They are the architects of their own demise.

@fatpunkslim 5 games? That's it? 🤣 There's plenty more publisher's out there way worse than Playstation. But I think everyone knows your agenda here

@fatpunkslim No they aren't on the podium. I went and checked after you said it. And it's not even close.

Peace Walker never was available in my region anyways

@Kiltedhaggis ok, I trust you...

@Balaam_

Yes I was being deliberately facetious.

My man, I'm a fervent supporter of GoG and have an 8tb external drive crammed with offline installers to back it up. You can also add a whole bunch of emulators and ROMS to that list.

Outside of GoG there is no such thing as digital preservation - it's a complete myth. Gamers are completely at the whim of the publishing houses and they can move goal posts at a moments notice.