Do you think next-gen consoles will reduce current gen game sizes?

[Star-Lord]

So I've been thinking lately, we know current gen games will be playable on the next-gen games. My issue is some games are extremely big as of right now. The last of us part 2 will be 100gb so far day 1. Call of duty modern warfare is getting close to 200gb. My question is with faster ssd can that condense the size of file sizes? As well, having new ssd this fast i'll be much more expensive to get a bigger internal or external harddrive. Think about having a brand new consoles and having call of duty mordern warfare on it takinh up one fifth of your console. And also keep in mind as well, ps5 won't come with a full 1tb harddrive either. I expect new games will have big download sizes but older games need a way to condense their sizes.
Im feeling it won't happen but being optimistic that some type of condensed procedure happens.
What do you guys and gals think?

 

[Deleted member 29639]

Not unless there's some amazing new compression technique coming down the pike. With the push to 4K, textures are big.

 

[Kyoufu]

Nah, UHD discs can store up to 100GB. Devs will fill those discs at some point.

 

[Dan Thunder]

My assumption, which may well be wrong, is that compression has to be factored in the game's development so a faster SSD won't make a difference to current gen games in terms of size.

I'm just gonna get an external drive for BC titles anyway.

 

[darkside]

No.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-05-07-the-big-interview-xbox-series-x-development-chief-jason-ronald-on-power-price-and-that-new-boot-screen

Theres a couple questions on massive file sizes and downloads in there. Doesn't seem like anything is changing on that front at least from MS.

 

[RyuCookingSomeRice]

They will only get bigger

 

[Strike]

Nah.

 

[Dan Thunder]

Just to clarify, the OP is asking if compression techniques will reduce the size of current gen games, not ones going forward.

 

[DarthBuzzard]

No. I expect compression will get smarter, but that won't stop sizes from rising.

 

[The Deleter]

Game sizes, no. I doubt patches will either, but I've always considered it a possibility, since the reason they are so big despite being updates to only the code side of the game rather than the actual assets, the problem has been copying and pasting the entire assets back into the game with the new implementation, rather than implementing methods of altering the code without having to touch the assets themselves. Theoretically, at least.

 

[Star-Lord]

Just to clarify, the OP is asking if compression techniques will reduce the size of current gen games, not ones going forward.

Click to shrink...

Thank you, i think some are thinking it's next-gen which i am fully aware will keep getting bigger

 

[Slammin_Hammon]

Even if possible, I imagine it would take some work from developers. Is that really something that would happen?

 

[Conjo]

Maybe. There'll be better compression it seems (at least for PS5 related to PS4) and less duplicated files because of SSDs instead of HDDs, but I don't know if they could apply those changes to if when a game is installed on a next gen console instead of a current one

 

[ShutterMunster]

A few innovations about the new consoles can result in overall smaller game sizes.

Yes, I'm hedging, lol.

 

[Falchion]

The install size could be slower if more games let the user download the single-player / multi-player components seperately.