So since MS' Conference is today Can we let the MGS rumors die painfully?

[NJ5]

Munkeh111 said:

NJ5 said:

On another note, would it really matter if MGS4 on the 360 consisted of 6 discs? The PS3 version has frequent mandatory installations which take several minutes each. It would be much quicker to switch DVDs than waiting for those multiple installations. Frankly I think PS3 owners only embarrass themselves by bringing up this issue.

As for whether this happens or not, I don't know. It depends on a lot of stuff we don't know. It's obviously possible, given that past MGS games have been on several consoles, but who knows what goes on behind the scenes.

Yeah, those installs are stupid, but personally, I am lazy enough to prefer staying seated rather than getting up.... but it is certainly not a big reason against the game coming to 360. What I don't get is how it is so big, it is not exactly the longest game ever

The answer is probably "because they can". On console games, there's no incentive to optimize much for space, as long as you don't need more data than you can put on the disc of course.

In this particular case they seem to have taken the liberty of having huge uncompressed audio files.