Metal Gear Solid 4, Too Big for Blu Ray
Metal Gear Solid 4 will be an awesome game, everybody knows that. But according to Konami, it could have been even awesomener (hey, I'm the editor, I can make up words). In an interview with Famitsu, Hideo Kojima revealed that Blu Ray's limited capacity of only 50 GB is not enough to hold everything the team wanted to add. MGS 4 has always been known for being dialog intensive but this is starting to look like a serious gabfest. Because of the capacity issues, Metal Gear Solid Online will be shipped on a separate disk.
The only plus side to this development is that, since the 360 uses a standard DVD and a Blu Ray disk has 6 times a normal DVD's capacity, I don't see MGS 4 coming to the inferior white box any time soon. That is, unless they ship it on HD-DVD...(yeah, we know HD DVD is dead but couldn't resist another chance to dig at Redmond).
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Actually the XBOX360 Dual Layer DVD can effective only hold around 6.5GB !!
NOT the commonly wrongly assumed 8.5 or 9.5 GB. Remember the other 1.5 or so GB is used space for XBOX360 anti-piracy encryption/etc stuff and is wasted space that cannot be used for actual game content itself.
So really you are comparing 50GB of Bluray to 6.5GB of Xbox360 Dual Layer DVD.
That is a difference of ~7.8 so it means the PS3 Bluray is able to hold about 8 times for information than compared to Xbox360 storage mediums.
MB is correct, a Dual Layer DVD has a capacity of 8.5 GB. Please google and you'll see that. As for the math, the factor is a rough multiple for the story and yes, not perfectly accurate. Not a lie, just a simplification for the story.
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DL DVD's are 8.5gb , so who's lying now
excuse me, dvd is 9.5Gb (assuming double-layer, single side), and BD is 50Gb (again, assuming DL, SS). The math is simple:
50 / 9.5 == 5.26
I realize things like math shouldn't get in the way of a good lie, but still, I had to say something. Another thing to consider is that a lot of the content on disc is compressed, so the ideal situation is to decompress to hdd, and play from there. So the game may have more than 50Gb when you consider compression, but then some PS3's might not have the space. I'd say most wouldn't.
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