damage control already? :/

I think what the article is suggesting is that cutscenes will have to be cut down. We won't be able to have 9 hours worth. In fact, it might have to get so small that cutscenes may have to be substituted for actual gameplay and maybe the return of Codecs. Oh the humanity! Here I was thinking that eventually Metal Gear might get so "large" that in a few more iterations we'll get to Kojima's true vision, a 20 hour CGI feature film with a save option every half an hour!

That - that can't happen.

Can it?

hahaha.xbox users always say they dont care about mgs and then some news about kojima comes up and all of a sudden xbox users are wetting there pants "ah hes gonna announce mgs on xbox,can't wait" lol hahaha.

Some Xbox owners actually do love Metal Gear Solid and would just like to have it on their system, you know?

No. That is merely a nightmare scenario. Additional gameplay in Metal Gear is what's known as regression. It's a trait that was popular back in the NES days back when Kojima was forced to fill his feature film with gameplay to beef up the experience and fill the void of being unable to produce cutscenes at that point in time. As consoles advance into the future, Kojima will no longer have to use gameplay as a crutch to flesh out his movies. His vision will be complete and all will rejoice.

Hahahaha. Brillitant!!!!

how is the OP biased? his/her points are perfectly valid, MGS4 or MGS5 would have great difficulty fitting onto a Dual-Layer DVD

I don't know, it sounds like your driving argument is that it would take more disc space. But I feel like under those constraints, they likely would have just had to do more compression. It might have used more disks, but who cares?

Depends. If you take out the hours (and hours) of uncompressed audio, or at least, you know, compress it, cut down on texture quality a bit, make the game more gameplay-balanced... I think it would be perfectly doable.