Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain may not release until financial year 2015/2016, according to information coming out of Konami’s post-financials investor call.

We reported on Konami’s financials this morning, revealing that PS3 remains the company’s biggest money-spinner.

Tweeting extracts from the investor call live as it happened, market analyst David Gibson revealed that MGS 5: The Phantom Pain may be some way off:

Konami admitting Ground Zeroes is a bit short, MGS5 could be released in FY3/2015 or FY3/2016 depending on the development stage — David Gibson (@gibbogame) February 6, 2014

He added:

Konami budgeted to release 7 major console titles this year and sees the same number released in FY3/2015 Subscribe to the VG247 newsletter Get all the best bits of VG247 delivered to your inbox every Friday! Enable JavaScript to sign up to our newsletter — David Gibson (@gibbogame) February 6, 2014

Do you believe that Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain could be as far off as 2015 or even 2016? What about those seven major console releases? Let us know what you think below.

Via NeoGAF.