*** [Important Notification] Temporary removal of METAL GEAR SOLID 2 and METAL GEAR SOLID 3 from digital storefronts (PlayStation®3, Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, etc.)

Thank you for playing the METAL GEAR series.


We are currently working on renewing the licenses for select historical archive footage used in-game, therefore, we have made the temporary decision to begin suspending the sale of METAL GEAR SOLID 2, METAL GEAR SOLID 3 and all products that include these games from digital storefronts globally starting from November 8th, 2021.


We sincerely ask for your patience and understanding as we work towards making these products available for purchase once again.


Thank you for your continued support of the METAL GEAR series.


Which products will be temporarily removed?
・PlayStation®3 METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SONS OF LIBERTY HD EDITION
・PlayStation®3 METAL GEAR SOLID 3 SNAKE EATER HD EDITION
・PlayStation®3 METAL GEAR SOLID HD EDITION
・PlayStation®Vita METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SONS OF LIBERTY HD EDITION
・PlayStation®Vita METAL GEAR SOLID 3 SNAKE EATER HD EDITION
・PlayStation®Vita METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION
・PlayStation™Now METAL GEAR SOLID HD COLLECTION
・Xbox 360 METAL GEAR SOLID HD EDITION: 2 & 3
・Nintendo 3DS METAL GEAR SOLID SNAKE EATER 3D
・GOG.com METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SUBSTANCE
・NVIDIA® SHIELD™ METAL GEAR SOLID 2 HD for SHIELD TV
・NVIDIA® SHIELD™ METAL GEAR SOLID 3 HD for SHIELD TV
*Some of the above titles are not available in some countries and regions

DRM-free gaming wins once again.

How is it a win if it's getting removed from GOG too? All the other platforms can still play the game digitally as long as they were purchased beforehand. Hell the consoles have the benefit of still getting physical discs/chips after the fact.

Looks like the two games were removed from Nvidia already. Either related to this or a while ago and whoever made this list didn't even know.

are you sure this was removed... I see it online.

it WILL be

well right now we are on November 8th, 2021 so maybe they forgot about gog.

"starting from November 8th"

yes, and we already are

Collection still available on Xbox, which btw for those that play on Xbox consoles they're backwards compatible with Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles. They were never "X enhanced" but they do get a performance boost and I'm told they look really clean upscaled to 4K. Native 4K would have been nice but whatever.

Oh and back to Nvidia. Those removals were recent. Google cached page on the Google Play store was from the 3rd. Even more interesting and slightly relevant to people on this site, the Nvidia Shield apparently added new DRM for software in 2019. Konami had to patch MGS 2/3 to do server DRM checks upon boot up. So if anyone needed a new reason to hate Nvidia, Konami had to update these games for that new DRM and some people got issues just loading up the game.