Kojima: Blu-ray Disc Doesn’t Have Enough Space
Posted by x3sphere at March 3, 2008, 9:43 am
In an interview with Famitsu magazine, Metal Gear Solid 4 producer Hideo Kojima expressed his strong belief that Blu-ray is still limiting on the size capacity front.
Kojima: I am not satisfied with the quality we can do [on Blu-ray disc] yet — there isn’t enough space.
Interviewer: Not enough space… on Blu-ray?
Kojima: Yes (laughs). Not enough space.
Not enough space for one game on a 50GB disc? It’s almost hard to believe, but quite true if you actually wanted to leave all data on the disc, including video and sound files, completely uncompressed.
Famitsu Scan [Hatimaki]
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Multi. Disc. Games.
Jesus CHRIST. It's NOT that hard! Developers did it all the time during the PS1 era. Multi-disc games in the last- and current-gen are few and far between. It makes me sad...