i think this games has some scenes that would make the x360 shudder.

I dont you dare bing up Gears anyone because you can not see that much detail way ahead of you in that game because it is so dark,

also textures and shadows look better in darker scenes, and we all know it, brighten up the tv, monitor you will see what i mean

In Resident Evil 2 for n64, audio was much worse. And FMV was a little worse... Neverthless, it was a great feat....compressing 1.4 gigs in to 64 megs. Game was completely playable and looked better in motion than ps1 version if you had the expansion pack...

And its not like there isn't any room for compression in MGS4. Audio could be trimmed, there are lots of FMV scenes like commercials at the beggining, the egg cooking parts and parts where they are explaining the story using fmw (like showing maps and old characters). Those could be coded using a different codec.

Lost Odyssey says hi.  That games cut scenes, both pre-rendered and realtime, easily match those found in MGS4.

Oh, and Gears of War. 

Read Kojima's analogy about the difference between watching a movie on DVD and in a theatre. You should deffinitly keep in mind that the only Metal Gear Solid game to go to the XBoX was substance.  From a technical standpoint, I'm sure that the 360 could handle a toned down version of the game. It would need to be done on 6 DVD9's, however, and with no true digital audio.

As a proud PS3 owner, I would be delighted to see the game go over to the 360 as well. It is a great game and going multi-platform would give more people the opportunity to enjoy it. 

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Mike Acton's reasons to consider writing branch-free code (i.e. branch elimination) also for the PPE with its branch predictor:

Better code sheduling, easier to profile, easier to optimize, easier to organize instruction layer, more predictable gains through inlining, easier to move to SIMD, improved accuracy or remaining dynamic branch predictions.

Only potential disadvantage: Possibly harder to understand for some devs.

"Predicated results, or branch-free code, may impact readability somewhat. Programmers are acustomed to reading and writing branchy code. However, much of this can made clearer through well named variables and predicate functions/macros."

Of course branch hints allow you to never 'mispredict' a branch. Hanging onto straws you say? Do you realize these practices are also beneficial to the 360?

I was considering replying to your post in detail, but then I saw this part. It's pretty clear you don't know much about programming, so let me save my energy to argue with the people who actually do.

Lost Odyssy is a nice game, but to be honest MGS4 does have higher res textures, but anyway both games look nice, and if i did ever buy another X360 i would defo get that game.

What about NG2, does that rival MGS4 because i have never sen that game in motion, and i dont mean buy resolution and that i mean just graphically???????????????

Does anyone have a link showing that MGS4 only runs at 30 frames per second? When I google it, all I seem to get is 30-60 >_>;; at 720p gameplay 1080p cutscene. I might be off on that though.

Someone mentioned games like Halo 3 showcasing lighting, but if you had to render your game in 640p @ 30 frames per second... and it being the flagship title... is that really bragworthy? ;-;

For as much content is on the MGS4 disc, regardless of how much is replicated or wasted, it would be quite the feat to match the quality imo. I think it could be ported, but it definitely wouldn't be as nice in my opinion. Playing to one consoles strengths always makes for a better technical experience, and I think in terms of sheer technical scale, the PS3 wins hands down, the space, access to a hard drive, CPU power and faster ram make it a more technically sound machine.

In regards to textures, I could have sworn I'd read an interview with Kojima a long time ago about how he skimps on textures for things he doesn't care about you seeing, that and the fact that he loves to switch camera focus all the time... >_>;; Some of the textures in MGS4 are absolutely insane, some not so much, I'm not sure if I'd put that in the technically absent, or purposefully so.