Consoles also do this with HDDs. That's been one of the talking points around the PS5 from the beginning, with Sony saying that games would get more storage space efficient because they don't need redundancy for faster loading anymore.
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If that really is cause and effect, that's a bit disappointing. For any game that isn't assuming you have an ultra-fast SSD, normal CPU decompression can handle things quite well. Such a hard nudge shouldn't have been necessary.
The hardware decompression acceleration in new consoles doesn't exactly make it easier to use compression for the game assets. Rather, it makes it practical to load compressed assets on-demand instead of reading and decompressing into RAM during the loading screen.
Well, we can point to fortnite up there, but also a very large fraction of the games I have on steam can be shrunk by a third just by applying filesystem-level compression, despite it using weak algorithms and small blocks. I'm sure there's compression involved, but it's not even meeting a minimum bar of competency.