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xeroxm3 on 15 October 2008
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NJ5 said:
Jordahn said:
NJ5 said:
As a worst case, let's say each act was put in a separate DVD... Wouldn't that still be better than waiting for a lengthy per-act installation?

Uncompressed audio should be one of the first few things to go, as the vast majority of people don't have the ears or the TV hardware to notice it.

 

HAHAHAHA!!!  There are a lot of things people don't have to allow them to take advantage of the niceties of life such as uncompressed audio, but that never stop the promotion of it.  With your logic, everyone should just stop making progression in technology since the majority can never initially take advantage of it.  Also about the act per DVD, you have also to consider the manufacturers/developers.  "Too many" DVD's can end up costly in manufacturing cost, shipping weight, and physical storage space..

There are very few people who can tell the difference between uncompressed and well compressed audio even with high-end audio hardware... Look for double-blind tests in audio related forums and you'll see what I mean. There's also the possibility of using lossless compression, which results in no loss of quality at all (as the name says) while cutting audio file size in half.

Technology progression is cool, but some things just aren't worth it. Using uncompressed audio was probably not a problem for the PS3 version since they probably had space to spare. I'd imagine that uncompressed audio would have been one of the first few things Konami would have eliminated had they really been space-constrained. Since they didn't do this, I'm inclined to believe the reports that this game takes about 30 GB on the BR disc.

Your last point is a good one, but that didn't stop some games from using a lot of discs. That has happened in previous generations as well as this one.

 

I have a feeling when Kojima said they filled up a Blu-ray disc he meant a 25gb one. Meaning when MGS4 shipped on a 50gb disc it was because they couldn't fit the game with uncompressed audio on a 25gb disc. Of course that's all speculation and I'll still get told off by somebody for making an assumption.