Comments on: MGS4 Confirmed 50GB Blu-ray?

By: dave

dave — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:22:18 +0000

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

By: Patrick Steen

Patrick Steen — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:51:36 +0000

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.

By: Phil Harrison

Phil Harrison — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:24:56 +0000

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.

By: Mustang

Mustang — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:24:01 +0000

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.

By: zipped

zipped — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:33:22 +0000

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

By: Dumari

Dumari — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:21:17 +0000

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.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:07:38 +0000

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.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:54:54 +0000

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.

By: Tommygun

Tommygun — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:42:12 +0000

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.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:34:13 +0000

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!

By: matt

matt — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:34:06 +0000

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.

By: cell

cell — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:36:32 +0000

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??!!!!!