Depends on the system, AFAIK. Modern consoles have so much disk bandwidth that compression is completely unnecessary, but PS5 and Xbox both have APIs for stream

Depends on the system, AFAIK. Modern consoles have so much disk bandwidth that compression is completely unnecessary, but PS5 and Xbox both have APIs for streaming and decompressing compressed assets. I haven't seen any titles using them, and it's doubtful that we'll reach a point where it's required with modern systems. That being said, compression would be an interesting avenue to explore for SD cards and SATA drives. The performance add can be pretty marginal, but sometimes that's just what these drives need.