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.

Videos after the jump. You can visit the official sitewhere there’s much of nothing(except a countdown) – in the meantime, we wonder if this MGS will be a PS3 exclusive or not (we bet it is).

From the material that’s out there, it looks like we’re back in the cold-war era, which is the timeframe for MGS3: Snake Eater. Konami has started to seriously generate buzz around what seems to be an upcoming Metal Gear title. but what’s important is that a new MGS title seems underway.

The viral videos are rather cryptic, showing an Orange ‘Ocelot’ Soda. . .

MGS is coming to Xbox 360 as well. Courtesy of PS Lifestyle/em>

Update: This image pretty much confirms that confirm that it is PS3-only

I was flat-out wrong on that one as Sunny mentioned down there.

Metal Gear Solid Touch has been talked about since December of last year, it should be coming “soon” (this Spring) on one’s iPhone, and there’s an official site now. From the gameplay footage, we can see that the game has a static background with a couple of 3D animated characters on top.

We would have loved to see something like Metal Gear Portable Ops, but it looks like the iPhone just doesn’t have the chops yet (or blame it on the developer ) – Video in the full post. I’m a huge fan of the MGS franchise, at least since MGS 1, however, I don’t think that I’ll spend any time on MGS Touch.