It’s not easy following on from Shinji Mikami, just ask Jun Takechi. Jun was the producer of Resident Evil 5 and the soon to be released Lost Planet 2 and he has expressed just how much pressure he felt steping into Shinji’s shoes at the helm of RE5.

“Yes, it’s true we did feel extreme pressure – and Mikami-san’s shadow – after Resi 4,” Takeuchi told Xbox World 360. “However, because we were creating the sequel to this huge franchise we wanted to make our fresh direction clear.”

“Personally, I don’t think I’m gonna deal with Resident Evil 6 at all – as far as the series is concerned I’m not planning to return until at least two more Olympics have passed.”

We all know that Blu-Ray discs can hold more content then the 360′s DVD, but it looks like no-one realises this more than Lost Planet 2′s development team. Lost Planet 2′s Producer Jun Takeuchi has confirmed in an interview that the team had to cut significant potions of the game due the space limitations of 360 discs.

When asked how the game’s development was progressing, Jun replied;

“There wasn’t especially any big trouble. More than those kind of difficulties, the edited content was way too much and dealing with that was more difficult than anything.”

“This time, truly, the content that was cut was significant,” Takeuchi added, “and at the end, we had to wrestle with disc space.”

Takecuchi’s team were apparently on the verge of crying when they had to sit down and actually start cutting and removing portions of the game to make it fix on the disc.Dont rule out these cuts making an appearance as DLC in the future.