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The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive(www.theverge.com)

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Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
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Is it possible for modern games to fit on a disk?

I think it would be an interesting change if brand new games had a hard limit on file size so they can fit on and play from an actual disk.

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Eldritch@lemmy.world
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Absolutely. It just depends a lot on the game of course. A blueray disk can contain over 100 GB. But a game could be split over several disks too. It was rather common to do that with CDs on the original PlayStation.

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Maultasche@lemmy.world
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A lot of Xbox 360 games came on multiple discs

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Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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The issue isn’t the game engine, it’s the texture files.

If you don’t care what it looks like, you cut 80-90% or more from any modern game subbing low quality textures.

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conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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They still have to install.

Disks are too slow.

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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If they use a good, 12X bluray drive, it will be quicker to install from a disk than to download it unless you’re lucky enough to have a good fiber internet connection. Even then, the servers you download from will often be overloaded and slow on release day.

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conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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That’s not my point. Most games do install fine from the disk.

He’s talking about playing from the disk, too, and that’s a problem.

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bufalo1973@lemmy.ml
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Maybe someone could do the numbers and see if a memory (USB, SD*, …) can be cheaper than a BR for this case.

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