Kojima : I am not satisfied with the quality yet, however…there isn’t enough space.
Interviewer: Not enough space..on..Blu-ray..?
Kojima: Yes.(laughs). Not enough space.
Kojima in the latest Famitsu interview casually remarks that Metal Gear Solid 4 [MGS4] is unable to fit onto a single Dual Layered Blu-Ray Disc without the programmers doing some compression to the certain parts of the game data. Also the game will not have all the vocal tracks for US and ASIA release. Some of the comments on N4G are kind of ridiculous these gamers do not know what its like to do data wrangling on media files.
From N4G:
if 50 gigs is too little then either they are bad at compression or the game is full of cut sceens and their will be 5 hrs of gameplay . Theres no reason for a game like this to use up all 50 gigs.It looks nice but not 50 gigs nice.
Well if they know Metal Gear Solid Game Kojima explicitly uses 3D Realtime Game Cutscenes. One major culprit of using most of the BD space is the Game Audio. Which I believe is HD Surround Sound. Kojima Hideo is pushing the boundries of uncompressed HD quality images and Audio for his final Game in the MGS series.
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A Funny Video on what MGS4 would be like on DVD9
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March 9th, 2008 at 1:22 pm #Crisu
So it’s too expensive to release the game on two discs?
March 9th, 2008 at 1:46 pm #nooneofconsequence
Wow, that was an extremely obnoxious video.
March 9th, 2008 at 3:31 pm #Takumi2k4
Lol, why is everyone surprised at Kojima using the full capabilities of a system?
Being a fan of MGS and Kojima, I’m still wondering why the game won’t use a billion of Blu-Ray disks, as I was expecting the game to be insanely big.
March 9th, 2008 at 4:28 pm #Hiyuu
Maybe they are down to 26 out of possible 25 GB and making two Blu-Ray discs would be ______ (fill in the blank e.g. dumb, inane, omgwt*bbq).
Just maybe. x)
March 9th, 2008 at 8:25 pm #lanie-emon
That sure is a lot of data there…
March 10th, 2008 at 1:03 am #Aeldt
>Hiyuu
not 25 gbs. it written that it wouldnt fit on a DUAL layered blu ray disc = 25×2= 50 gb
March 11th, 2008 at 3:35 pm #Servbot
I beleve it is time they moved on to HVD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
March 15th, 2008 at 1:59 pm #news/highlights
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June 27th, 2008 at 12:40 pm #el toro
the game is 1 blue ray h and is 20 hr gameplay 7 hr movies its the #1 game in the world