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Spyro Reignited Trilogy file size on PS4 is 67.48GB
- Thread starter Martin
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Games playing off slow platter based HD's cannot be compressed because the de-compression would fuck up texture and data streaming. also encryption on the drives is a huge bottleneck on both ps4 and xbox.
All 3d model and texture data is stored in huge atlas files so the game only has to peek inside the file to grab whats needed and not open the whole thing, makes it much more efficient to stream data and reduce loading screens. This usually (and very likley in spyros case) also means that data has to be stored 'per level' so you get some fucking outrageous levels of duplication and waste. there's probably a duplicate texture for spyro in every single level of the game, among other things.
Games being played off flash carts dont have the same issues with transfer speeds, so they can compress the hell out of the data and dont need to organise it into the atlases. That's also why 'porting' to the switch properly is a massive amount of work - if it's going to play to the strengths of it, the game needs a total overhaul of how it stores data.
I'm seeing this sentiment a lot recently and nobody seems to understand why modern console games are not compressed.
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I don't care what anyone says about assets and texture sizes, these companies are WASTING space.
Living that 2.8mbps down DSL high life baybee!
This would legit take a solid week to download at my house.
Why put in any effort on that part when it is much easier to put the onus on the end user. I mean they could pay a couple of people like what 100k for a couple weeks of work on compression or just pocket that and let users have to use bandwidth.
The Crash remakes has all three games on disc since the PS4 release of last year. This year also had the multiplatform release with Stormy Ascent, Future Tense, HDR added to PS4/XB1 and some fixes like loading times done. This is absolutely not the same scenario like with Spyro Reignited Trilogy where currently only parts of Spyro 2/3 are on disc physically...
They had a new release with that all on the disk? That is good to hear, time to look into getting it. Like actually excited again for it.
...geez what does that say about me if it being all on a physical release means that much to me.
Activision could have release it as 3 separately games for $40 each!
They would have make more money and we whould have been "happier"
Win-win for both?
They would have make more money and we whould have been "happier"
Win-win for both?
I know I'm late to the conversation, but I'm just gonna add that, with both add-ons installed and tge game fully updated (including last month's patch removing PS4 sharing restrictions), 1.5+2.5 is 61.01 GB. Of that, the KH1 theater mode add-on is a hefty 10.5 GB, while the added 358/2 Days scene is only 353 MB.