Why are Video Game Files so Big Now?

HDD? I hardly know her!

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Sources:
Events that happened in 1977: https://www.historycentral.com/20th/1...

Largest Atari2600 game https://www.videogameconsolelibrary.c...

Average NES game size https://80sblog.all80s.co.uk/nintendo...

Nintendo betrays Sony https://venturebeat.com/games/the-sto....

All NES game = 237MB   / how_much_space_it_would_take_to_store_every  

Game cartridge info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_...)

Memory card info https://www.gamebyte.com/the-secret-f...

Info on CDs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_car....

https://venturebeat.com/games/3-ways-...

Those who failed at disc drives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Sa....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_3DO....

Original XBOX specs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_te...

Memory limits on consoles https://websites.umass.edu/Techbytes/...

Techspot article (has info on The Last of Us’s audio files too) https://www.techspot.com/article/2680...

Mississippi test scores https://www.mississippifreepress.org/....

Backblaze HDD prices https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-d...

SSD prices https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/hi...

Info on optical discs
https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/te...

https://www.techtarget.com/searchstor....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray

Blu rays are the standard for videogame discs nowadays
https://www.whathifi.com/features/why...

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread....

Large bug patches https://www.gamespot.com/articles/som...

MW2 70MB disc having 150GB download https://www.eurogamer.net/modern-warf....

Games being announced too early https://www.thegamer.com/games-announ...

Textures don’t compress well https://www.pcgamer.com/how-game-size...

Diablo 4 40GB graphics add on https://www.pcgamer.com/diablo-4-high...

Re use assets to save file size https://www.gamedeveloper.com/busines...

Meta’s AI audio compressor https://ai.meta.com/blog/ai-powered-a...

Harry Potter and the Extremely Long Download   / are_games_still_even_stored_on_the_disc_or...  

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