With extreme compression (removing all videos, music, and padding), some of these small CD games can get close to .
At first glance, it sounds like magic. Imagine playing God of War II or Final Fantasy X on your low-end laptop or Android phone with a file smaller than a single MP3 song.
But here is the cold, hard truth you need to hear before you click that download button. The Sony PlayStation 2 uses a 4.7GB DVD (or 8.5GB Dual Layer). A game like Shadow of the Colossus relies on streaming massive texture files directly from that disc.
