UK version of MGS4 won't include Japanese voice over and vice versa.
Talking on the Kojima Productions Report Session 081, the regular podcast by Metal Gear Solid 4 developer Kojima Productions, producer Ryan Payton has revealed that the highly anticipated stealth game won't include voice over tracks from other territories. So if you're a UK gamer hoping to play the game through with the Japanese language track you're out of luck.
"Unfortunately because of disc space, we don't have the space to include other languages, other voice over files for the respective versions," stated Payton. "So the Japanese version's not gonna have English VO, and the North American and European versions won't have Japanese VO."
It seems that even with the huge amount of storage space Blu-ray offers, there simply isn't enough room for the multiple languages and all the game data. There is still a way to play the game with Japanese voices though; seeing as all PS3 games are region free you could just import a copy from Japan.
eeeeeeeeeeeeee wrote at 10:52 on 29 February 2008
I assume this is because they are putting the game on the far cheaper 25gb Blu-ray disk. If it were actually important content they could switch to the 50gb disk. It isnt because Blu-ray isnt big enough, its because the content isnt important. Big difference.
RaZoR_GTX wrote at 12:10 on 29 February 2008
Why would you want voice overs? lol Id be like..shut the f*K up b***H im trying to listen the the story in english! hehehehe
Mulac wrote at 20:17 on 29 February 2008
So we are to expect another delay in PAL/European territories?
Voice overs aren't that important, or can somebody prove me wrong?
Privateer wrote at 23:04 on 29 February 2008
Too big because fat ass pre-rendered video is prob why they run out of space.
Ghost5 wrote at 00:06 on 01 March 2008
Must be one big-ass game then :)
Ivan_PSP wrote at 12:01 on 01 March 2008
This MGS4 is been done on a single Blu-ray Disc layer, it can be done on Blu-ray using double layer like that you can also include videos.
Handwipe wrote at 02:42 on 03 March 2008
Wow, I wonder how much Sony paid Konami to annouce that.
gualshock3 wrote at 08:00 on 27 March 2008
handwipe wipe your xbox360 fan face with the fact that you will never understand what blu ray is, HdD for you right yeah you highly dead too