> > PC games have been using more uncompressed assets to free up CPU time, massively bloating install size

> Filesystem compression could help here.

How? Compression is not free, no matter where you put it, someone has to decompress it again.

Are you talking about some exotic SATA controller or other hardware that does that?

No I was thinking of modern filesystem compression solutions. They offer relatively poor compression ratios, but computationally efficient decompression.

That would undo the entire point of it, no?