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curl-6 on 20 February 2017
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Hynad said:
curl-6 said:

Using tons of prerendered video is a massive waste of space in this day and age, now that realtime graphics are more than good enough. 

Uncompressed audio/assets is also pretty wasteful as 99% of people wouldn't even notice a bit of mild good quality compression.

I'm pretty sure most AAA current gen games could be considerably reduced in size without significant detriment if the devs could be bothered.

They could always lower quality of everything (textures, sound files, video quality, etc...), sure. But most of those devs aren't making games for Nintendo consoles.  =P

Seriously though, if you don't care about those things, that doesn't mean others don't. A lof of gamers play their games hooked to a surround sound system or using a good headset. But people should also keep in mind the fact that most games now support multiple languages. Those 3-5 languages take a lot of space, regarless of the sound quality. It's not like Nintendo's games where only a few select moments are voice acted. Some of these games are completely voice acted, from important cut-scenes to any NPC dialogues. 

I like sc94597's idea of a compressed and an uncompressed version, so that those who have the luxury of space can get a "premium" version while those who are more frugal or less fortunate can save space.