ion-storm on 03 March 2008
http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/856/856239p1.html
Hideo Kojima further elaborated on the issue and stated in a Famitsu interview, kindly translated by Kotaku, that, "There's not enough space. We always talked about where to cut and what to compress."
So there is some sort of compression going on it seems
Yes
