Hideo Kojima is beating around the bush today giving us a statement to think about; the upcoming release of Metal Gear Solid: Peacewalker for the Playstation Portable is a test for the Metal Gear series. Peacewalker will be presenting new ideas and gameplay tricks that will keep the series fresh. Here's what he had to say.

"It's not that PSP is the main platform for the future MGS series," Kojima wrote (via Andriasang). "Peace Walker is a test to see what type of expansions are there if MGS is brought to a portable. We're not just rising vertically with development on next generation systems, but also horizontally, trying to expand gameplay."

So, it should be interesting to see how Peacewalker turns out. The big plus it seems is the four-player co-op that 1up points out. Don't forget, according to Kojima himself "Cameron's Avatar was a huge hit because of the 3D video. That can't be communicated through text and a trailer. It's something you won't understand unless you experience it for yourself in the [cinema]." So it looks like Peacewalker is meant to be the Avatar for videogames? Kojima loves to give us the workaround, doesn't he?

Via 1up