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Originally Posted by suprmallet
Does anyone else wonder why this is 22GB when one of the biggest, most open-ended and complex games ever made, Oblivion, is 5GB? Either this is all HD FMV or it's uncompressed.
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Uncompressed HDTV (1080p) is truly obnoxious in size -- on the order of 1 Gbps (around 7+ GB per minute) or greater. Just three minutes of uncompressed imagery would eat up that full 22 GB. Thus I doubt there is any truly uncompressed imagery on the disk.
However, there might be "studio quality" imagery which is minimally compressed (on the order of 100 Mbps or 700+ MB per minute). This would allow for very fast motion imagery with high contrast and lots of colors and still have no noticeable artifacts. Even 15 minutes of this (dispursed throughout the game as 15 seconds here, 30 seconds there, etc.) would only take up half of that 22 GB.
Also since this is still very likely Beta software/imagery there might be a LOT of redundant code and imagery in that 22 GB. If this is true, when it finially ships it could be as little as 12 - 15 GB.