Shponglefan wrote on Today, 14:52:

bitzu101 wrote on Today, 14:48:

How on earth do you put a 150 gb game on dvd's?

It worked fine when games were like 500mb to 10 12 gb.... but 150gb...?

Bluray disks can store in excess of 100 gb.

Freaking aye... did not even know them things existed. Thought there were no more blu ray players/disks for years now....

i also thought that both xbox and ps5 have done away with the optical drives...

Shponglefan wrote on Today, 14:52:

bitzu101 wrote on Today, 14:48:

How on earth do you put a 150 gb game on dvd's?

It worked fine when games were like 500mb to 10 12 gb.... but 150gb...?

Bluray disks can store in excess of 100 gb.

well sure but not 500 gbs of updates and still the games being stamped on these discs and carts are incomplete and just a filler or wrapper or license thingy that acts as a shim because the games still need to download. I mean you cant just install it and play it offline off the bat

twiz11 wrote on Today, 15:03:

Shponglefan wrote on Today, 14:52:

bitzu101 wrote on Today, 14:48:

How on earth do you put a 150 gb game on dvd's?

It worked fine when games were like 500mb to 10 12 gb.... but 150gb...?

Bluray disks can store in excess of 100 gb.

well sure but not 500 gbs of updates and still the games being stamped on these discs and carts are incomplete and just a filler or wrapper or license thingy that acts as a shim because the games still need to download. I mean you cant just install it and play it offline off the bat

0,5 TB for a game ? 😨

How on earth would this fit on a PS5/6 HDD?!

Sony has dropped the planned 2TB of storage for the PlayStation 6 down to 1TB, to save costs.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/110763/ps6-to- … izes/index.html

bitzu101 wrote on Today, 14:57:

Freaking aye... did not even know them things existed. Thought there were no more blu ray players/disks for years now....

i also thought that both xbox and ps5 have done away with the optical drives...

Well the drive is now optional on PS5. But the PS5 physical games are blu-ray.

leonardo wrote on Today, 10:05:

I looked at PS4 and XBOX back when and thought: You get the game, you have to install it as if it were a PC, you have to download gigabytes of patches and updates to run the game - and at some point those things stop being available.

The PS4 era games were still mostly playable from discs, after a mandatory install to the HDD of course. But there were indeed some exceptions, where the disc only held the installer, and you had to download the rest of the game from PSN. Sadly, this became more common during the PS5 era.

twiz11 wrote on Today, 15:03:

Shponglefan wrote on Today, 14:52:

bitzu101 wrote on Today, 14:48:

How on earth do you put a 150 gb game on dvd's?

It worked fine when games were like 500mb to 10 12 gb.... but 150gb...?

Bluray disks can store in excess of 100 gb.

well sure but not 500 gbs of updates and still the games being stamped on these discs and carts are incomplete and just a filler or wrapper or license thingy that acts as a shim because the games still need to download. I mean you cant just install it and play it offline off the bat

so what is the point of the optical disk?

if you still need to connect to the internet and download stuff anyway?

think the era of the DISK has passed. updates and upgrades are now so common , would be impossible to put on disks.

Joseph_Joestar wrote on Today, 16:03:

leonardo wrote on Today, 10:05:

I looked at PS4 and XBOX back when and thought: You get the game, you have to install it as if it were a PC, you have to download gigabytes of patches and updates to run the game - and at some point those things stop being available.

The PS4 era games were still mostly playable from discs, after a mandatory install to the HDD of course. But there were indeed some exceptions, where the disc only held the installer, and you had to download the rest of the game from PSN. Sadly, this became more common during the PS5 era.

that era has passed mate...

some games are huge... and some are VERY huge... and consoles like xbox and PS5 do not have the graphical quality as on pc's... once the graphics on these consols will increase so will the space required.

in the next 10 years we will have the era of graphics that look like it s real , that will use so much space and will need so much more processing power.... don t think there is a optical media with such capacities.

Shponglefan wrote on Today, 14:28:

Steam has also been around for 22 years. There are PC gamers that have grown up in an environment where Steam and digital distribution of PC games is the norm.

It helps that Steam is superior to PSN in every conceivable way.

Ever tried to refund a game on PSN due to bugs/crashes? Even after just 30 minutes of play time? Yeah, Sony doesn't care, and will outright deny the refund in most cases. Unless the game is super high profile and also completely, bugged like the PS4 version of Cyberpunk 2077 at launch.

bitzu101 wrote on Today, 16:09:

in the next 10 years we will have the era of graphics that look like it s real , that will use so much space and will need so much more processing power.... don t think there is a optical media with such capacities.

Not yet, but there is still hope.

See here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/micro … e-medium-glass/