4k or higher resolution textures in video games are a gimmick

This might be an unpopular topic or opinion but it still needs to be put out so people can be vary
As of recent games have become too big in size like 100-150GB and requiring atleast 4gig gpu is quite off the chart as we barely see any graphics improvement

there are many reasons behind it like the assets that are never used, long or many pages of shoddy codes but main reason is those high resolution uncompressed textures that might not see a difference at all even being set at 90% quality instead of 100%.

The other day my brother argued that bitmap is used because it is uncompressed but i have seen some games use PNG and look as good if not better.

The only reason i think of developer can go this route and affect having more potential customers is tie with hardware companies such as Intel, Nvidia, AMD so they can sell newer products such as CPU, GPU, RAM etc.

This is what great depression was all about, we won't go much further in it as it's not our today's topic but simpley in one line "keeping economy well maintained with regular jobs and employement."
Biggest proof for me that even 720p textures are good enough is looking at graphics in ps3 and xbox 360 emulators such as rpcs3 or xenia with some sorf of filtering such AA and AF both make the games look pretty neat

rpsc3 is not very stable on my pc as i get frequent crashes and graphics also look jaggy for certain objects so i deleted it as it's cell architecture is not in the great favour of proper emulation (atleast on my pc) and games were hard to make for it because of that reason
but now im using xenia which runs perfectly fine on my pc

not only the performance is significantly better but graphics look alot nicer too i have tried red dead redemption with extreme FXAA and AMD FSR and man those graphics it look pretty neat for a 2010 game

though performance wasn't the most ideal as i get consistent stutter but that is to be expected on relatively modest hardware of mine.

So in conclusion, we can say that it's an industry standard so they can newer products every generation in decent amount and make profits, nothing wrong with it. The pro is more people will get jobs but con not everyone can afford expensive hardware so gaming (especially on pc) will remain a luxury.