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Nuvendil on 02 August 2017
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monocle_layton said:
IkePoR said:

From seeing my cousin download these games year after year, they're massive.  Dev's do little to no compressing, there's no reason a fucking basketball game should be nearly 90GBs but it always is.

If I had to guess, it's cartridge compression issues.

2k16 was actually my first basketball game since the OG xbox. Afterwords I just stuck to nba jam.

 

Seeing it take up 65gb of my 500gb hard drive just got me irritated. 2k17 was somehow even bigger. There is no reason why a game like xenoblade x is 32gb while a basketball game continues to bloat up to ridiculous levels. 

It really is a shameful display.  It's literally a "because we can get away with it" thing.  Basically, they figure that since mandatory installs are a thing on PS4 and Xbone, they are free of any obligation to optimize file sizes.  And if it results in frustration and problems for users, oh well, not their problem.