However, the legacy of the format remains. It stands as a testament to a specific era of gaming—the "HD Era"—where developers were pushing optical media to its absolute limit. The PKG was the solution to a bandwidth and storage crisis, a clever way to stream massive worlds into a living room console.

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In the context of modded or jailbroken consoles, files refer to pre-packaged installation files that allow users to install MGS games from an external USB drive or internal hard drive without using official PSN servers.