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‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Going Digital-Only Is a Car Crash for Physical Media (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

One of the reasons they are so big is that they are poorly optimized no?

[–] Graphiar@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

That is a contributor yes but you’re going to get large game sizes regardless due to high resolution textures being so prominent nowadays. 4K gaming is what really started all this. A lot of games are still 80GB+ and that’s only going to rise with each generation. Ultimately it’s unavoidable.

That said Activision with COD is a good example of poor compression and unoptimization. Particularly with the stupid ass high bitrate audio that they use and don’t bother to properly compress it.