Current Events > 15 years ago: "Man, this 250GB HDD is huge; I'll never fill it up."

(+) Yeah! (+)

Today: "Guess i'm buying another 2TB HDD, because my games folder is too big."

Thanks, uncompressed audio, full HD video, and also GTAV for being 76GB itself.
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Halo 5 is 100GB

Fucking ridiculous
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its cause of all the voice acting in modern games. voice files take up ALOT of space. you should have seen the download for the Old Republic mmo, the world's first fully voiced mmo. it took forever to install compared to WoW

Pretty soon 1 PetaByte is too small.

I need more storage.
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Black ops 3 is 143 gigs Ayyyyyyy
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15 years later: "..."
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"I refuse to believe that I've filled a 1TB drive with mp3s. It's a mirage. Or something." -- Warren Ellis
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i work in the field, we actually don't care/take notice of project sizes until towards the end of the production and if we have resources/time to bother compressing files (mainly for PC)

games are only going to get bigger so get used to it
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Zikten posted...

its cause of all the voice acting in modern games. voice files take up ALOT of space. you should have seen the download for the Old Republic mmo, the world's first fully voiced mmo. it took forever to install compared to WoW

I dunno man, the first Broken Sword game was only about 200mb and its fully voice acted.
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Speaking of fully voiced, I bought Star Trek Starfleet Academy Bridge Simulator on GOG the other day, and it's got full FMV videos and shit. I should play it sometime.
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Zikten posted...

its cause of all the voice acting in modern games. voice files take up ALOT of space. you should have seen the download for the Old Republic mmo, the world's first fully voiced mmo. it took forever to install compared to WoW

i'd lump in textures too, 8K sizes etc. Crazy how back last generation we were using 512/1024 sizes. nowadays we create textures starting from 4K +, then obviously compress/resize them down
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I remember when 2GB was a lot
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SaccharineSmile posted...

i'd lump in textures too, 8K sizes etc. Crazy how back last generation we were using 512/1024 sizes. nowadays we create textures starting from 4K +, then obviously compress/resize them down

The awesome thing is even with Lossless Compression formats, the files still end up being huge.

But with endless improvements in storage on all formats, it's easy to store it on various physical mediums.

Heck, if Sony wanted to update Blu-Ray to a next Gen spec, they would and could.

The tech for it has been ready for quite some time and they've been holding out on us.
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A 250 GB HDD 15 years ago would've been ludicrously huge.

A PC I bought in 1997 had 7 GB and that feeling enormous
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>20 years ago
"WOW a DVD can hold FOUR gigabytes!?"
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KamenRiderBlade posted...

SaccharineSmile posted...

i'd lump in textures too, 8K sizes etc. Crazy how back last generation we were using 512/1024 sizes. nowadays we create textures starting from 4K +, then obviously compress/resize them down

The awesome thing is even with Lossless Compression formats, the files still end up being huge.

But with endless improvements in storage on all formats, it's easy to store it on various physical mediums.

Heck, if Sony wanted to update Blu-Ray to a next Gen spec, they would and could.

The tech for it has been ready for quite some time and they've been holding out on us.

next gen consoles will be interesting

would push for a standard/pro version of the consoles to be 2TB of HD space depending on cost of theses HD in 1-2 years time.

but again, the ability to replace the harddrive would remain

crazy to think the next gen consoles will have a life span until 2027+ (if/when they are released in 2020)
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SaccharineSmile posted...

next gen consoles will be interesting

No, they won't. They'll just be like modern consoles only a bit more powerful

Only Ninty will actually try anything risky, to varying success
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The computer I had from the early 2000s had a 80 GB hard drive, who the heck was rolling 250 >_>
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Wow, Xbox 360 has a 60 GB HDD!!!
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Why not get 4TB? After all this time, the one for my Xbone is a little over half full.
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Price of 1 gigabyte of storage over time:
1981 $300,000
1987 $50,000
1990 $10,000
1994 $1,000
1997 $100
2000 $10
2004 $1
2012 $0.10
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HylianFox posted...

SaccharineSmile posted...

next gen consoles will be interesting

No, they won't. They'll just be like modern consoles only a bit more powerful

Only Ninty will actually try anything risky, to varying success

developing for Nintendo sucks and it shows. why waste company resources to try to port current-gen games on a last-last-gen console for little return? limited power in console limits game development vision too
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Now 1tb SSDs are becoming cheap too
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SaccharineSmile posted...

next gen consoles will be interesting

would push for a standard/pro version of the consoles to be 2TB of HD space depending on cost of theses HD in 1-2 years time.

but again, the ability to replace the harddrive would remain

crazy to think the next gen consoles will have a life span until 2027+ (if/when they are released in 2020)

Now imagine how fast Next Gen Consoles would perform if they had 16 GB of Optane as a super Low Latency / High Bandwidth cache for the large Data files off of the Blu-Ray Drive that is stored between sessions for games.

Imagine how responsive / how quick level loads would be or how seamless a giant open world can easily be.

You pay a 1 time loading penalty for the game from BD-ROM -> Optane, but after the file is loaded into Optane, it's super fast.

HDD can remain for DLC / Patches / Save Files.

Even if you swap discs, the Optane data can be dumped onto HDD and reloaded once the original disc is inserted to validate the content and you would still get the quick access that you used to have.
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Alucard188 posted...

Thanks, uncompressed audio, full HD video

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My laptop in 2005 had 34 gb.
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Man you were dumb 15 years ago
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I'm copying my Steam directory over to my storage drive that I never use. 513GB. Says it'll take a day to do so. I thought transfer rates were faster than that.

Oh, it updated its timeline. It now says 3hrs 15 minutes. That's much better.
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23 years ago that 1GB hard drive seemed so big it wouldn't fill up
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Did you know that you don't have to have all those game download and could just download them when you're ready to play a new game?
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My friend had a CD full of skateboarding videos and I wanted them all on my computer, unfortunately my computer didn't have a HD big enough to hold an entire CDs worth of videos
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It feels weird knowing I'm gonna buy a 256GB microSD card for my new phone once it gets here.

And I was asking around online to see if that was actually the limit, or if it could go higher. >->
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i recently bought a 256gb SSD in addtion to the 100gb one i have and my 1tb hard drive because world of warcraft's size got bigger with the expansion and i couldn't BEAR the thought of playing WoW again on an HDD. the load times are HORRENDOUS on an HDD i dont know how i ever did it.
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Re: Damage Control

Yes, everything in general is getting bigger in size, but games are scaling WAY the fuck up compared to everything else. A DivX movie 15 years ago was like 700mb, and now a Blu Ray movie can be anywhere from 1gb to 4gb. Big change but not crazy (especially the 1gb). MP3s at 320 kbps are still the same because it's literally a measurement of data per time, like no more than 10mb. Sure there are more FLAC/Lossless files now that increases that to 20mb but it's not like they're the only medium to listen to music in.

A game 15 years ago was like 500mb-4gb (not every game used the entire disc space), and now they are like 50 to 100gb. Even the ratio alone of increasing 25x is absurd, but 25*4gb is huge in terms of space.
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Bad_Mojo posted...

Did you know that you don't have to have all those game download and could just download them when you're ready to play a new game?

Downloading them again takes time, though.
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And yet video games today are worse or stagnant.

Man, y'all are digital hoarders. Learn to let go of your old files if you don't use them anymore.

ClunkerSlim posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

A 250 GB HDD 15 years ago would've been ludicrously huge.

A PC I bought in 1997 had 7 GB and that feeling enormous

Ive got a PC in my basement with a 6GB hard drive. Its mind blowing to think about because it doesnt seem like that long ago that I was using it. I paid $900 for that thing! And I think I even used it to check GameFAQs.

My first computer ran Windows 98. The HDD was too small to fully install Baldur's Gate on it. The game is only 600MB fully installed. I still have my big box version of that game. I love it.

Edit: I got the install size wrong. Baldur's Gate was fucking massive when it was released back in the day, but not _that_ massive_.
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15 years ago: "Man, this 250GB HDD is huge; I'll never fill it up."

No.
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as someone stuck with crap internet i hate how everything is moving toward digital
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My first PC came with like a 10GB hard drive and had 256MB of ram which was upgraded from 128MB.
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cawmaster5 posted...

as someone stuck with crap internet i hate how everything is moving toward digital

I agree, but not because of crap internet. I love owning the things I buy. There's nothing tangible in owning 1s and 0s as a digital download.

https://imgur.com/a/pNyzcPt

This is what interests me. Seeing "213 games owned" on Steam doesn't.
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tag for the nostalgia
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https://imgur.com/a/pNyzcPt

that's beautiful thanks for sharing
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I used to have a 64MB Mp3 player. I even had to save up pocket money before I could buy it
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LIsJustice posted...

Wow, Xbox 360 has a 60 GB HDD!!!

At launch it was 20GB (or the cheapo 4GB version if you just planned on using memory cards).

All the move to digital large file sizes means is that everyone can be sloppy and lazy because there is no need to fit what you want into a finite space. These large sizes usually mean Im simply not going to purchase the game because Im not juggling memory and Im not shelling out more money so programmers can do their jobs terribly.

And the best part of having physical copies of games is you can let people borrow them! You can buy them used! Of course developers want everything digital. The biggest negative is the amount of space your library takes up. Can you imagine how much space you would need for your steam library
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