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>Now, to be fair, games that size don’t fit neatly on even high capacity Blu-ray discs, which for distribution purposes max out at around 50 gigs.

Yeah, as if compression libraries didn't exist...

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I remember when games like Diablo II came on multiple CDs, including both an install and a play disc. Hell, I remember when I installed games off of multiple floppies. They could just deliver multiple discs.

Blade Runner, 4CD's.

I think it was even 4 DVD's.

I think it was the 1997 Blade Runner video game being referred to. That was definitely on CDs, not DVDs.

Phantasmagoria with 7.

>Meanwhile the audio and video assets also have to fit on there, and they can only be compressed so far before they degrade.

This was addressed later in the article

Are these cutscenes? If they wanted to make an effort to make the game work for offline play, they could just provide lower quality (say 720p) videos on the BluRay, and let the player know that if they have an Internet connection with no bandwith caps, the game would stream these videos in glorious 4K from their servers. And if the player has the disk space, the game could also offer to store (or pre-download) those videos on their disk.

Then again, game cutscenes nowadays use their rendering engine, don't they...

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