Post #3691647
2026-07-01 20:28 UTC
It really sucks, but unless someone was to come up with a way to cram massive amounts of a game onto single discs, or no more than two, it was inevitable. That’s not why they’re doing it, but still
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@helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2026-07-01 21:16
They could just use a flash drive to distribute the game. Copy the game to the local drive…and wait, that’s how PC gaming works. The appeal of CDs, or game cartridges, was the ability to load a game and immediately start playing (well after the loading screen as everything loaded into ram) and you could play the game on other consoles (bring game to friend or resell it). To recreate that, most games would have to be shipped on a 256gb ssd so the game can just load from that on any computer. I have a feeling that’s not the best business strategy right now