Zekkyou said:
It usually comes down to one (or a combination) of these: - Nintendo's game tend to be smaller in scale, as far as asset quantity goes. Something like Mario Kart requires far less modelling, texturing, and audio work than something like Forza. When they do make more asset demanding games, like BotW or XCX, their files quickly grow (XCX is probably their largest: 23~ GB by default, and 33GB with the patches). |
That's not a good point. PS3, which is weaker than Switch, had linear games with very big file sizes like God of War Ascension. While a big open world more demanding game, like Breath of the Wild like you said, is only 13GB.
There's only one simple explanation: they invest more time/effort compressing stuff like audio, because like you said their hardwares have less storage, so it's more important.
Bet with Teeqoz for 2 weeks of avatar and sig control that Super Mario Odyssey would ship more than 7m on its first 2 months. The game shipped 9.07m, so I won