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Barkley on 04 July 2016
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barneystinson69 said:
Barkley said:
That's the problem with having bigger media, companies don't bother to even try and lower the size of their games. NBA 2k16 for example is 45gb..... 45 GIGABYTES. WHY!?!?!

2k14 was 9gb.....

Almost every game on the market is far bigger than it needs to be.

Well people demand better graphics, thus that is the trade-off.

Games don't need to be this big to have better graphics, companies just aren't trying as hard to reduce file size. You could have a game with the exact same quality with half the file size. Sony were guilty of this on ps3 due to the bluray. Crack in Time is 25gb big, there's no way that game couldn't have been on the 360 with just as good graphics.

All companies care about is it fitting on the disc, once it does they don't care anymore, that's why you get so many ps4/xbo games that are 45-50gb, pretty much exactly the size the physical media can hold, because companies don't try and reduce the size any further. Which is a pain in the ass for buying stuff digitally.

Another example, Uncharted 3 GOTY on ps3 is 43.5gb, Uncharted the Nathan Drake Collection (which has 3 whole games in it and has better graphics) is 44.46gb. All companies just aim to fit it on the disc when it could be so much smaller.