Why is Call of Duty Warzone/ MW 2 so big?
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For two reasons. The first is well, the games are more detailed, graphics more realistic, bigger, this requires more data, more programming, and takes up more space.
But the second is lazier programming. In the past programmers were restricted by the physical space available on hardware. Having less space makes you program and set stuff up more efficiently to maximize the space you had.
Its why Game boy games were so small, and games from the PS3/360 generation were still so much smaller, the programmers were restricted by the amount of space on the tiny little data cards for the Game boy, and the limited Disc space for the PS3/360.
Modern gaming consoles and PCs though dont have this much of a problem, and with the shift towards buying games digitally, they can be lazy and just make it big because a lot of gamers have at least a 500Gb hardrive, with many having more that 1000, so they arent as limited anymore, and arent forced to be more efficient.
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