The deal? This is the deal:
(Note: Before I get flamed about being a lier and a PS2 fanboy, let me just say that all of these points are true and have either been confirmed by Konami or by Hideo Kojima (GOD) himself. Thank you.)
1. MGSX is not confirmed.
2. Kojima himself said that whatever KCEA said was wrong and that KCEA and KCEJ haven\'t talked about it at all.
3. He has however said that on XBox there may be a few things he can do with it he can\'t on PS2, like using the HDD (he has expressed interest for the PS2 HDD, and the possibility of using it), and maybe making the graphics a little bit better. But like I said before, nothing confirmed.
4. Kojima has also said that to him all the next-gen consoles are pretty much the same, some are better than others at certain tasks but in the end they\'re all very similar. He said that when he decides on a console to make a game for he doesn\'t look at the specs or the quality of the graphics, he looks at the console\'s userbase.
5. And with the previous statement, PS2 is the winner. PS2 already has over 10 million users (yes, yes I know its been out almost 2 years already), and everyone from little kiddies to people in their 40-50\'s play PS2. GameCube is aimed at kids (BTW Hideo Kojima said himself that GC is aimed at kids and thus will not be getting any version of MGS), and the most likely people to buy an XBox are either computer nerds and older men (said by just about every game magazine and website I\'ve ever seen, and no not just PS2 ones).
6. And lastly, even if XBox does get a version of MGS it won\'t be out until far after the PS2 version has been released and played to death.
Regarding the comments about how MGSX is already in development and how easy it would be to port it from PS2 to XBox, both are false. Kojima said himself that everyone is too busy working on MGS2 to even think about working on an XBox version, and also that MGS2 (as well as all other PS2 games) is written using PS2 specific machine code and that to port it another console they would have to completely re-write the game from scratch.
I think that just about covers it. Thank you for reading and remember that you too can be just another victim.