Hideo Kojima is pushing Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker way ahead of its release next year.

“Despite being on the PSP, we don’t plan on making any compromises with the graphics,”, “The art team is used to producing PS3-level quality and the results will make you wonder if this is really a PSP game. For sure, this is a PSP art & technical wonder, although it’s nowhere near MGS4’s image quality (that’s normal). Watch the trailer as we saw it during E3 2009. MGS Peace Walker is the second MGS game named as “the missing link” that should explain intricate details of the (complicated) storyline of the Metal Gear franchise (Portable Ops was the first one). ” The game, he says, will take “hundreds of hours” to finish. The man has quite a following (it’s well-deserved), so he’s the best person to build the hype. In some sense, the message is the same than for most metal gear game: Hideo Kojima wants to tell gamers that despite being a PSP game, this is a “real” Metal Gear (and not a franchise-milking attempt): he and his core MGS team are working hard on it.