

churn out a “quick” remaster, try and beat Skyblivion to completion, and milk the cash cow dry. It’ll almost certainly be a muddy sepia, soulless, bugged to all fuck travesty.
I literally can’t tell if you’re trying to be sarcastic because you’ve read any of a huge number of articles about the leaks, or completely ignorant of them and just happened to get everything completely opposite on accident…
More importantly it was limited by physical media back then.
Like, DVD level physical media, there was a hard limit for everyone, so there was a huge focus on optimization to save space
Now that almost all games are downloaded, they can be as huge as they want. So optimizing for file size is often the first place that gets cut. You might not keep a huge game installed, but it’s rare to avoid buying a game due to file size.