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

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MrMarc said:
I haven't bothered to sift through the three pages of comments, however I am going to go ahead and say this:

This is total bullshit.

Once again for those that didn't quite catch that:

This is a load of gobshite.

There's 1 of 2 explanations for this.

1. Kojima is straight up lying through his teeth, probably for a few quid in the pocket from Sony for nice marketing.

2. This game is just that badly and lazily developed, with everything being uncompressed needlessly just so that Kojima can say so.

Either way, it's not a good thing in any circumstance if this game really is taking up 50GB's of space. Most PC games now are really only just beginning to use the extra layer on DVD's to install anywhere between 7-12GB's worth of data. This is totally impractical / unrealistic / pure stupidity. In the end I absolutely guarantee you that MGS4 will not be the most epic game ever in terms of length, it'll still be a ludicriously short game or just average in terms of hours played.

Instant fail. On consoles, you play the game pretty much from the disc. On a PC you INSTALL the game. So if you don't need the disc, why not just compress as much as possible? There is no reason to use huge amounts of data for PCs because the data isn't being uncompressed as the game plays. So greatly compressing a PC game is easy when you just install and play it from your hard drive.