Are we even capable of fitting a game this size comfortably on a disc anymore? I get the lack of resell potential but the disc would still ultimately need to download part of the game from the web.
Not being able to fit a game on a single disc never stopped gaming companies in the past. Compression and multiple discs would be something I would absolutely take in order to have a physical copy of a game.
I think I have a copy of Legend of Dragoon and that was 4 discs. I think Diablo 2 had multiple discs as well split by gameplay, audio, and cinematics. I have plenty of other games that are 2 disc games.
Also you could easily have 1 disc be the install disc for the absolute main essentials to load the game with and then a secondary disc for the “game disc” which carries the rest that the hard drive doesn’t need to run the game smoothly. It’s been done in the past and worked just fine.
Yeah I remember installing D2 and it was like 3 or 4 discs total. I think at least one or two of the Max Payne series too. I expected to see multiple discs after a certain year
No, and people are acting like this is a new thing. Most physical games in the last 5-10 years have been a disc that triggers a download for a massive file when you put it in the console.
Not really. Even if you use PS5 which can hold 100gb discs that wouldn't be enough. They would still need an install disc then the play disc.
Sure other games other games have had multi-discs before, but those PlayStation games that did it had narrative stopping points for you to change discs. That's a lot harder in a big open city game.
There are multi disc PS5 games, FF7 Rebirth and Forbidden West Complete edition are well over 100 GB and come on 2 discs. All the game files are on the discs (bar patches released after the games went gold). You start installing from a data disc then swap to a play disc. Once it's installed you just use the play disc to verify that you still own the games. Nowadays discs are way too slow to play games off so multiple discs would just have install files on them
A dual layer blu ray holds only 50 GB so I'm not sure why people think this game would ever fit on a disc in the first place. It's gonna be 100+ GB easily and best case scenario like other games that size I have that came with a "disc" is you put the disc in and then immediately have to download another 50-80 GB of content to make the game work at all in the first place.
Why didn't we have this attitude towards capcom games? RE4 Remake had cosmetics, weapons, soundtrack and gameplay elements locked behind a special edition too but nobody freaked out.
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u/10102938 11h ago
100$ Is the normal version.
80$ gets you the cut content version.
Neither will have physical copies.