MGS4 Confirmed 50GB Blu-ray?

by Patrick Steen on March 14, 2008 at 3:41 pm

It was revealed last month that a Blu-ray disc wasn’t big enough to hold all languages for the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 4. Since all previous Playstation 3 games have resorted to the more constricted 25GB Disc, it was unclear whether MGS4 was to stray from this trend.

In a Konami retailers meeting yesterday, it was exposed that the game would be produced on a 50GB Blu-ray disc.

Ryan Patyon announced on the Kojima Report Podcast that US/European copies of MGS4 would not contain a Japanese voiceover and visa versa:

Unfortunately because of disc space, we don’t have the space to include other languages, other voice over files for the respective versions.

So the Japanese version’s not gonna have English voiceover, and the North American and European versions won’t have Japanese voiceover.

Many presumed that Kojima decided to go with a 25gb Blu-ray disc to save on costs, but it was yesterday revealed in a Konami retailers meeting that the game is the biggest of the series, and will be presented on a 50GB disc.

What’s taking up so much space we can only imagine. There will be hours of high-quality surround sound, and perhaps HD movies even though previous series had cutscenes rendered in real-time. How much space is taken up by game assets is unknown, but the release of MGS4 might be the greatest production of double-layer Blu-ray discs in the format’s short history.

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cell
on March 14, 2008 7:36 pm

50 gigs, what can possibly fill all that space?? Even if it was all just video like some skeptics will tell you, thats still alot of content. What other game has ever gone 50 gigs??? ah, ah can some one please tell me……please someone let me know, what other 50gig games are there??!!!!!
matt
on March 14, 2008 8:34 pm

50 GB isnt that much since most ps3 blu-ray discs are duel layered whitch are already 50GB or that two single layered blu-ray discs (25 GB each) so it isnt relly that much.
Jonathan
on March 14, 2008 8:34 pm

Well they’ve never stated that the game is a full 50GBs… For example maybe the game takes up 35-40GBs of space… But the hi-def surround sound files and lip synched animation in one language takes up 20GBs so there’s no room to fit that additional content like separate lip sunched animation and Japanese audio. That sounds likely… hell Transformers on a dual layered HD-DVD couldn’t fit both hi def audio and special features… Frankly I’m hoping there will be tons of stuff in MGS4, can’t wait and this space issue only adds to the intrigue!
Tommygun
on March 14, 2008 8:42 pm

Pretty simple really, all of the sound is uncompressed, meaning all of the voice actors, all of the guns and everything else you hear has not been compressed as to give it an unrivaled match in sound quality.

Plus, the game will just be huge anyway.
mike
on March 14, 2008 11:54 pm

A while back Konami stated that MGS4 would have over 70 different weapons all with multiple customizations, that alone is probably taking quite a bit of space.
Fred
on March 15, 2008 4:07 am

if it’s not in game content it should be a waste, look at crysis, greatest quality super high-res textures and it fits in a DVD-9. also i hope not requiring a 20 GB intallation, that would be insane.
Dumari
on March 15, 2008 11:21 am

You also have to figure that if this game doesn’t install to the HDD (wich at this point it’s obvious it doesn’t) that the game data is probably mirrored multiple times throughout the disk to keep load times down. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a 9 gig game on the disk 5 times.
zipped
on March 15, 2008 12:33 pm

Kojima had said that the game was even too big for the 50gb blu-ray disc and that they would be cutting part of the game out to make it fit
Mustang
on March 15, 2008 2:24 pm

There’s probably no CGI videos. All previrous MGS games used in-game engine rendering, what it does contain is several hours of dialog and according to Kojima, this audio will be 7.1 losslessly compressed for overkill sound quality.

Probably the biggest blockbuster game ever.
Phil Harrison
on March 15, 2008 5:24 pm

Nobody is that anal about sound, especially in a videogame. Who cares? Sony just looks desperate to justify Blu-ray for gaming, given its slow access times and the need to install games to HD.
Patrick Steen
on March 15, 2008 7:51 pm

Dumari: What you say about duplicating data on a Bluray is completely untrue. Oblivion was the only game mentioned to duplicate data for load times, which was then disproved by the developer.

The duplication of data may help with seek times, but load times can be impoved by streaming to the PS3’s HDD - you do not need to install (though this can help - Uncharted is 23gb, doesn’t install any data and has no load times.)

It is a myth that Blu-ray is slower than the 360’s DVD drive. Blu-ray PS3 is slower than the 360 reading a SL-DVD, Blu-ray is faster than the 360 reading a DL-DVD reading. The speed of a DL-Blu-ray may need some more research. The presumption of duplicated data is just that - an unfounded assumption.
dave
on March 15, 2008 8:22 pm

lol id rather a ps3 drive over a xbox 360 sorry i mean hoover any day.

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