One Blu-ray disc - "but up to seven discs" on Xbox 360?

So it turns out that in a recent GameSpot news article, the Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection is going to be a Sony PlayStation 3 exclusive. If you are unaware of the aforementioned collection's contents, let me list them below (or, for others - let me refresh your memory).

THE METAL GEAR SOLID: LEGACY COLLECTION WILL INCLUDE:

• Metal Gear Solid
• Metal Gear Solid 2: HD Edition
• Metal Gear Solid 3: HD Edition
• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD Edition
• Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Trophy Edition

In addition to this information, as also stated by GameSpot themselves: "...all into one PlayStation 3-exclusive package." Now, that being said, I'm assuming that all six of these titles are going to be on one Blu-ray disc. Let me say this again: six games.

Let me break it down - that's:

• TWO PlayStation 1 games
• TWO PlayStation 2 games (remastered in HD)
• ONE massive-as-hell PlayStation Portable game (remastered in HD)
• ONE effing huge massive-as-hell PlayStation 3 game

And if you do the math, that's six games total, like I just said above. Now that's pretty intense. That's six games on one Blu-ray disc (which, let me remind you, is a PS3-exclusive feature - however the next Xbox is "rumored to feature a Blu-ray optical drive", so that means that Microsoft will be joining the Blu-ray party soon enough.

This massive grandiosity on an epic scale of five games plus a PS3 game on one disc made me realize something: Why can't more developers be able to make this much use out of a single Blu-ray disc? If this much content can be stuffed into a single disc, then how come that can't be the case for so many other games?

For example, the Ace Combat series. In their old PS1 days, the disc was formatted so that the soundtrack was also in the game itself and could therefore be accessed in a special menu of some sort. In other cases, some PS1 games' soundtracks could be accessed simply by inserting the PS1 disc itself into a computer or a CD player, therefore netting you two pieces of content in one: the game itself, and the additional bonus of having the soundtrack with it. Nowadays you have to purchase the amazing soundtrack of [insert amazing game here], but the only way to get it is to either look the OST up on YouTube or something (which in many cases might be taken down because of copyright infringement), or spend countless dollars on the soundtrack (even more if the game is old).

Here's a list of games that had soundtracks within the game disc that could be accessed via computer or CD player. Click!

Now you might reply: "Are you serious? Adding in the soundtrack with the already-expensive game would cause it to cost even more. If every single PS3 game did this I'd end up having to pay like $10 more for each game." This might be true in some cases, but extra content doesn't have to be limited to just soundtracks. Other goodies, with the soundtrack, even, could be formatted into the Blu-ray disc. There are endless possibilities for this. If Metal Gear Soild could fit six of their games onto one Blu-ray disc, I'm pretty sure developers can find ways to add tons of more content (provided they have the extra time and resources) to their one PS3 game by itself.

That way, we don't have to put up with unnecessary "special editions" or anything like that. Wouldn't it be nice to own a game one day, realizing that a few months later, an "ultimate edition" with the soundtrack included, along with an artbook and some hand-painted figurine or stuff like that is released but you don't really have to buy it because the game you bought months earlier already had all of that awesome in it? Think about it - this could probably save you some money and mean less stress for the developers behind it as well. They'd also charge less too, because it's already on the game disc itself. However this might not apply to everybody, because some actually like having physical hard-copies of things. Which is totally fine.

I really don't know. It was just a thought. Think about it though.

And I'm no Blu-ray expert either, but I am aware that more can be done with the amount of space it provides these days.