Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has said that the capacity limitations of the Blu-ray format forced his team to make unwanted cuts to the latest game in the series.

“For us, we're not still not satisfied with the quality we can do. You know, there's not capacity space [on Blu-ray],” he told Famitsu in an interview partly translated by Kotaku. 

“There's not enough space at all… We always talked about where to cut and what to compress,” he added.

Last week assistant producer Ryan Payton told the Kojima Productions podcast that there wasn’t enough space for the English language track on the Japanese version of MGS4 and vice-versa.

Publisher Konami last week announced a simultaneous June 12 US, European and Japanese release date for Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. The title was originally scheduled to release during winter 2007/2008, but was pushed back to the second quarter of 2008 “in order to make further improvements to the quality of the game”.

The game will also be available in the US as part of a Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 bundle, featuring a system with partial backwards compatibility.