According to website Chicago Gamer's Club, and apparently anybody with a copy of UK mag "PSW," and at least one working eyeball, we should be expecting a downloadable demo of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots to show up on the PlayStation Network (the PS3's Xbox Live counterpart) in February.

Metal Gear Solids 1 and 2 both had pre-release demos that were quite a big deal (I'd estimate that roughly 104% of Zone of the Enders' sales can be attributed to the bundled MGS2 demo). Demos mean the game is close enough to completion to be able to cut a chunk of it out without screwing anything up, and it means that there's at least some small parcel of the story that Kojima can't stay tight-lipped about.

Will the MGS4 demo sell PlayStation 3s, though, that's the question.

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