Can someone explain or justify to me convincingly why these downloads are this large?
eurogamer.net
Ridiculous file sizes
Sebastian Roberts
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Grayson Martin
consoles, compression, etc.
Charles Miller
To combat piracy of course :)
Oliver Roberts
Developers think that not compressing their files makes a game better somehow.
It fucking doesn’t. CoD modern warfare remastered is an example of why it doesn’t.
Isaac Murphy
no-talent green "developers" with college degree in game design not bothering with basic optimization because the hardware allows them to be lazy
Jace Roberts
uncompressed audio and video for all languages
Nathaniel Robinson
Well I know PC game sizes get inflated by things like 4k textures, video files, and multiple audio languages. So it might be the same on consoles.
Austin Cox
this is my favorite meme answer
Kevin Rivera
this + raw MEGATEXTURES, that are then slooowly streamed and down-sized on the console HW.
James Myers
To make me feel better about getting the repacks. Thanks scenefags.
Blake Rivera
Repackers are not scene.
Sebastian Brooks
I know casuals and normies at work who are amazed at "how big" some games are because they think file size correlates directly with the game's length.
Alexander Stewart
>xbone
lol
Juan Bailey
Maybe but they're not that large.
I thought idtech5 games were big because of that retarded megatexture tech it introduced.
Matthew Nguyen
Not maybe, definitely, and yes they are that large.
Landon Morris
Wew check out this disklet
Jack Young
Lazy developers. Only time it's justified is if they're using better textures for 4K but that's usually not the case.
Angel Ward
Rage was 'only' 18GB. Vanquish is 18GB, because of the video and audio.
Ayden Perry
Where is the problem?
GTS has no content and is 70gb large already after 1.05
Aaron Kelly
Uncompressed video and audio, it started with MGS4 being 50gb and slowly started to catch on.
Jaxson Clark
>Can someone explain or justify to me convincingly why these downloads are this large?
en.wikipedia.org
gee I wonder what happened
Eli Bailey
Several reasons. I know more about bone than of PS4 but they are nearly the same.
1, Console games from this generation use an unified online interface with unified content access. Every game is pretty much the same in every online store around the world. This means every copy has to have every language for example. Microsoft actually tries to combat these filesizes by introducing a new technology with the Xbox X (every XBO can use this). Basically developers can flag files and let the user install what he wants, but in reality probably not many devs will use it. It will be technically possible for example to only install the single player or multiplayer or just a single language for a game.
2, Yes, deliberately bloated file sizes are a thing because it makes people think bigger is better. Basically AAA games expected to be 50+ gigs.
3, People always forget the only thing that kept file sizes somewhat at bay was the DVD drive of the X360. Now that devs can make their game any size there is no reason to compress things or to strain the already weak machines with additional computation.