| Leynos said: So installs are not going away despite the promise they would? |
No one promised that.
How did you expect the data to get from an optical disk or server somewhere to your SSD?
If a game took hours to install on Xbox One or Playstation 4, the same game will still likely take hours to install on Xbox Series X or Playstation 5, the mechanical hard drive was NOT the bottleneck there, the optical drive was.
| KLAMarine said: What eats up most of this space? Gonna guess hi-res textures. |
Uncompressed high bitrate audio was a massive culprit during the 8th gen... Titanfall developer even stated that 35GB of the 48GB install was uncompressed audio.
https://v1.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/132922-Titanfall-Dev-Explains-The-Games-35-GB-of-Uncompressed-Audio
Audio is a tricky one to do lossless compression on without upsetting audiophiles.
Hi-res textures tend to be extremely compressible, most developers will do this.
www.youtube.com/@Pemalite
