| Lone_Canis_Lupus said: It wasn't just the single-sided. They had trouble with that at first. But then they had trouble getting it down the the 50GB the dual provided. The audio is uncompressed so that does take up a lot of space, but there is a lot of audio...and even if compressed would bring it down a LOT...I think it would still take up a considerable amount of space. That's what I said, if they dumbed it down to 720p or sub-720p, they could probably fit it on 2 discs. But I think it's 1080p? At least that's what I've heard. Anyway, the way MGS4 is, I think it would take a lot of compressing to get it down to 3 discs. |
They never said it was pushing 50gb to my recollection. That was a misinterpretation by Sony fans.
If they were struggling to keep it too 25 a few months before release, the game's size didn't double by the time it was complete.
Put it this way. Due to a lack of compression, Heavenly Sword had 10gb of sound, the game was 5 1/2 hours long. Compressed, that might have been 1gb of audio. Audio can be compressed HEAPS. Also, MGS4 has 5-7 languages on one disk. Make it one language and bam, more space.
Look at Motorstorm. That was a small title with poor graphics and it took up 22gb of space according to Sony. The reason? No compression so that the PR department could say "look the Blu-Ray is necessary."
MGS4 on 360 = 2 disks max.
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