Why do the newer call of duty games take up so much space?
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Because of textures. Textures are photos or hand made photoshops of surfaces and textures that are put on object’s polygons to make it look like the object in reality. In older games, back when technology was slower, it would take time for computers to compress, decompress, move, and apply textures to objects.
So to save on performace, these textures were often low quality, that’s why textures on older games look so blurry or pixelated, because the textures were low quality.
Modern games, such as the newer COD, now use 4K textures, which are roughly 8 times larger than HD textures used in Black Ops or Modern Warfare. COD Black Ops 2 was 21 GB. It uses 720p and 1080p HD textures. Cold war is 95 GB on the XB1/PS4, which uses 1080p and 4K textures, and 135 GB on the XBSX/PS5, which uses 4K and sometimes 8K textures.
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