Yes, twestern...it is in-game and is real time. The camoflauge proves it. Plus, in the briefing of Act II, you can switch to Mk.II (at least I think it's Mk.II) and move around the place. I used it to go spy on sunny playing the PSP. :)

@TheRealMafoo

On the same page :)

I have no idea how MGS4 is developed, but I would guess that many of the lighting and texture passes were done in the CELL before handing them off to the RSX (similar to R&C). When you look at the quality of most of the textures, lighting, and resolution all this is rendered at, with never a slowdown, I don't think it's posable on the 360. At least I have never seen a game on the 360 that achieves it, so I have no reason to think it's posable.

The game also has a huge draw distance and incredible sound (sound is not cpu free, great sound takes cycles to produce).

The opening to act 2 I thought was a live action movie, until snake showed up. It's just incredible. 

HE didn't explain how a game that had a four year development cycle switched to dual layer six months ago and somehow managed to double in size in that small period of time.........

Actually at the end of the interview he says something interesting.  "We love the Xbox 360 and we think its a great machine, you know, Microsoft's a great company.  Its just our focus was to get this out on the PS3, take advantage of the hardware and get this out as quickly as possible."  

Like I said.  We don't have to debate whether there are any technical obstructions to a 360 port, we need to debate whether Konami will spend enough on the port to overcome them. 

You can use a HD to cache parts of ram, but you can not replace ram with a hard drive. It's just too slow. So for example, if I was doing some sort of well known AI approach (one that could not be easily optimized, as it already has been) to calculate how to move, and in ram it takes a tenth of a second, it might take 30 seconds from a hard drive. That kind of speed loss would make it useless.

The game in the BD is 50GB, but aren't PS3's games using doble space cause drive's speed?

 True, that's why I said "sacrifice speed greatly." ;) It's not impossible to port to the PS3, but with the speed loss, it wouldn't be practical at all.

Maybe you can, you could use the harddrive for caching data (sort of like virtual memory).

IMO for a console bandwidth and processing power are far more crucial factors, 512 MB is a lot of memory to work with for a console (not running an inefficinet bulky desktop OS and better oppertunities for optimization) if your game isn't a PC port. Just look at the NeoGeo with its:

• Main Memory (used directly by 68K): 64 KB
• Main Video memory : 74 KB
  • Video Memory: 64 KB
  • Palette Memory : 8 KB
  • Fast Video RAM : 2 KB
• Sound Memory (used directly by Z80): 2 KB

and compare the games which run on 1990 PCs with many many times the amount of RAM.

LoL This is EPIC fail. =))

1) MGS4 cut scenes are all on ENGINE, you can`t compress that. =))

2) x360 use only 7GB data of dvd, rest are for security. MGS4 takes 46,6GB, so.. in that case you will need ~10 DVD, BECAUSE you will need to DUBLICATE data, so ~2GB same data + 5 GB new = 10 DVDs, LOL.
Or how you are going to lesten to music on disc 5 from disc 1? =)) Same about textures. =]

3) x360 doesn`t have HDD in every SKU, that means:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PTkbvZpsOfA
LOOK at walls and boxes, LOL.

4) There is SO MANY advertising of antiM$ products in MGS4... ))

That first line is what you need to focus on.

Someone, I think it was Selnor, was saying that the game actually uses some last-gen textures, I think he used some glass breaking as an example.  As the OP of this thread said, the lighting isn't particularly dynamic.  If there is one thing Halo 3 showed us, its that the Xbox 360 can do lighting like its nobodies business.  Come to think of it, it also showed us that draw distance isn't a problem for the Microsoft console.

But you have highlighted ONE area where its likely sacrifices would have to be made on the Xbox 360.  7.1 audio would come down to 5.1

I don't doubt that MGS4 is incredible to a fan of the genre/series, but thats no reason to run off on an irrational tangent and start declaring the PS3 is the only console that could do it.  The main thing we have seen this generation (besides the fact Nintendo's still got it) is that there is no signficant differential between the power of the PS3 and the power of the Xbox 360.

IF we see any differential, it will be small, will show up at the end of the generation, and will only be seen in the first party/second party titles put out by Sony, due to the PS3's lack of viability RELATIVE to the PS2 shortening its tail. 

@Disolitude

I posted right after I read the your opening post, and I have not read one single other post.
Your points are valid, and you're one of the creditable posters that are the reason why I keep joining the site (n4g anyone? God...)

Not a single wrong and false word in there. NOTHING that 360 can't handle.
Still I wish it remains a PS3 exclusive.
Competition is what makes us the happier gamers of all generations. The quality of the exclusive products is almost sky high at the time. And i wish it keeps that way.

(Strictly Personal Opinion. About MGS4 visuals. Nothing impressive concerning lightning effects, impressive animation, but sometimes it randomly fails, non existent physics, but overall the game rocks!)