• @FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    51 day ago

    The majority of disc space on a game like CoD is textures, audio and FMV. There’s no compressing 4k textures to get them to a reasonable footprint without losing quality

    And you can’t make 4k quality optional because…?

    • @Tahl_eN@lemmy.world
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      113 hours ago

      Some games do that, especially at a generation border. It’s not a ton of extra effort, but it’s low-return: a game doesn’t sell better or get a lot of press for being smaller.