MGS V: The Phantom Pain for PC scheduled to release alongside consoles

In spite of initially announcing that additional development time was necessary to ensure a solid experience for PC gamers, Konami has announced that the PC release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain will no longer be staggered, or if you prefer, delayed.

In fact, thanks to a lot of hard work, MGS V for PC is now set to release on September 1st, alongside the PS4, PS3, Xbox One and Xbox 360 versions of the game, instead of September 15th.

“We initially did not think it would be possible to get such an epic game out onto PC in time for launch alongside its console counterparts, but all involved have worked diligently to meet the demands of our PC consumers,” said President of Konami Digital Entertainment, Tomotada Tashiro .

Tashiro continued on to say that, “We feel confident that Steam users will be satisfied with the contents we will provide for the Steam version.” We certainly hope so because we’ve burned before.

You can preorder Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain on Steam right now. Doing so will score you a free copy of Ground Zeroes.

Alternatively, NVIDIA is bundling The Phantom Pain with select higher-end GTX cards as well as notebooks.

It’s something you may well want to consider, particularly because NVIDIA has partnered with Konami in the development of the PC version of MGS V.

And trust us when we say that a solid GameWorks enhanced experience is not one you want to miss lightly. Ground Zeroes is a great example of that.

Unfortunately, as a result of the updated timing, MGO, or Metal Gear Online, is delayed until next year for the PC release. It’s scheduled for January, 2016.

As for console gamers, well you’ll only have to wait until October 6th.