Yeah that is curious if consoles shipped with compressed audio but not PC. The prevailing wisdom on PC is codecs are easier to deal with due to dedicated audio

Yeah that is curious if consoles shipped with compressed audio but not PC. The prevailing wisdom on PC is codecs are easier to deal with due to dedicated audio thread. Decisions like that are not made lightly so now I’m curious what the reason was Edit: reasoning is here: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/12/respawn-actually-explains-why-titanfalls-install-is-so-huge/ https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/12/respawn-actually... Minspec is 2-core PC, probably to support large player base and as noted before there can be 20-40 audio files all streaming from disk and decoding, so sure one file might be fast but no way that’s happening on a 2-core PC. Sure one file might decode fast, but 40 of them, all also streaming from disk while keeping frame rate playable, just impossible