Nintendo should teach their 3rd party supporters their file compression secrets.

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Peh said:

adisababa said:

I feel like compression somehow decreases the graphical quality of the game, I mean even compressing music files decrease the sound quality so it should do the same for games. I'd rather have games in all it's 100 GB glory over a quality decrease for more system space.  

Ehm...no. That's not that kind of compression people are talking about. You don't get a loss in quality unless they put lower quality files on the disc/ cartridge. The files are compressed and will be unpacked when needed. This needs cpu resources and could lead to higher loading times.

There's a difference between lossless and lossy compression. Most every game engine already supports lossy compression for textures. It's called BCN (BC = Block Compression, the N is a number between 1 and 7, each compression being optimized for different things). BCN is also something that hardware can directly consume without any additional processing.