emb@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoFFVII Revelation Director Insists S-E Had No Choice but to Require a Download to Play the Physical Disc Versionwww.ign.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up151
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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-223 hours agoSpace available on a bluray disk: 50GB max for a dual layer disk. Game’s total size: 210GB. The only other choice was to do what they used to do back in the day: Put it on 5 disks.
minus-squarerafoix@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoA normal part of game optimization is making sure that it doesn’t take up all the storage space on every device. What exam is in that game that justifies those file sizes?
minus-squareimetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoWonder if these 210gb are worth 210h of normal playtime. If the game is 20h long, all these textures and gigs are worthless.
minus-squareDon_alForno@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·18 hours agoSo there indeed was a perfectly good other choice.
minus-squareZedstrian@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·23 hours agoPS5 discs can store up to 100 GB.
Space available on a bluray disk: 50GB max for a dual layer disk.
Game’s total size: 210GB.
The only other choice was to do what they used to do back in the day: Put it on 5 disks.
A normal part of game optimization is making sure that it doesn’t take up all the storage space on every device.
What exam is in that game that justifies those file sizes?
Wonder if these 210gb are worth 210h of normal playtime. If the game is 20h long, all these textures and gigs are worthless.
So there indeed was a perfectly good other choice.
PS5 discs can store up to 100 GB.
3 then.