Bigger Than Godzilla: Why Are Games Using So Many Gigabytes? - eviltoast
Do all the latest big budget games require over 100 GB of drive space? What's the average size of a AAA game today? We've investigated the figures...
  • winterayars@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    And even lossy compression is not inherently bad. AAC is completely indistinguishable from lossless for most people and hardware setups, and very close anyway when it’s not. It uses a fraction of the space, though. (Not a comment on game dev practices, more a comment on compression.)

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think I’ve been told that AAC uses just enough CPU to decode that developers don’t want it. Even that assessment could be wrong.