Whoa!! Kojima: "Blu-ray Disc Not Big Enough for MGS4″

[Lone_Canis_Lupus]

FJ-Warez said:

Lone_Canis_Lupus said:

 

Having prerendered videos doesn't challenge the Cell like in-game rendering would. Also, all we have is the whole 1080p thing. The only way we'll know if the videos are prerendered or in-game is when we get more detail...if they release the information anyway. I'd still put down my PSP and sell my PS3 if they did the double-over thing, but I wouldn't really feel that way with the prerendered stuff.

Sony needs the PR. The PS3 is gaining momentum, and if you were heading that, you would want it to keep gaining momentum. I guess it's kind of like showing "See? Blu-ray's space can be taken up". They're giving it their all, and it seems to be working. The PS3's sales are greatly improving(though I don't think so much in Japan...still better than the 360's...but low) and I don't see as much bashing of it anywhere else. People are impressed. Having prerendered cutscenes doesn't make it any less of a game to me....because you don't do anything in cutscenes anyway.

Is advertising their products ability bad? In-game rendering may be cheaper and save space...but if a company wants their customers to have the best quality possible, why not prerender it? This may be for PR on Sony's part...but in the end, I don't see what's bad about putting out quality to the customer.

Nobody is saying how bad this is coming from Kojima or Sony, we are discusting if there is a real need of space for this kind of games or games in general, or this is just a way to promote the Sony products...

Of course sony need more good press, and this sounds like one of these.. is bad??? nop, is addresing a real issue in the game industry???

And I have no problems with the prerendered videos either, looks good, and they can put on it, its ok, but he said something like "their are forcing us (asking us, paying us, we are forced by contrac etc)" and then the tone changes after the dead of the hd-dvd??? is kinda suspicious, thats all...

And with the power of da cell, I mean: "this can be done in the 360" ...

 

@ Auron

He is right, the game involves a lot of cut scenes, sometimes you kill a boss a then, pump 10 minutes hearing how bad you really are...

I don't think Sony is really "forcing" him. Honestly, Kojima Productions has even been saying Kojima wants 1080p really, really bad. I really think of this as a "He wants to" kind of thing...Hell, if MGS4 was only 25.01GB, I bet Kojima would still put it on the Dual-layer because he's just that kind of guy. I honestly trust that all the cutscenes are in-game. This is Kojima, and he's not one to let the man tell him what to do. Afterall, I heard he got pissed about the MGS2 port to the Xbox...though I'm going by what someone on another forum said, he's a major fan of MGS.

This is the last game, maybe there is just a lot of content on it...maybe Kojima wanted Snake to go out with a bang. We won't know until the game comes out, but I think I can trust Kojima.

 

EDIT:

The main thing I notice now is that foreign audio is being cut out of certain versions. The audio is uncompressed, and there is at least 60 hours of it. Uncompressed, 60 hours of audio...that definitely fills up huge chunk of that 50GB space. I'm sure of it now, all the cutscenes, everything is in-game.