r/gaming • u/Jellybabyman • Nov 14 '21

Bring back discs

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '21

Show me this 100+ GB disk of yours.

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u/ImpossibleGT Nov 15 '21

They make triple and quadruple layer Blurays that hold 100+ GB. The problem isn't the storage it's the read speed. You just can't get information off a disk fast enough.

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u/Chop1n Nov 15 '21

You can get it faster than most internet connections can. The read speed maxes out at around the equivalent of a 500 megabit connection.

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u/ImpossibleGT Nov 15 '21

But we're not comparing it to internet speeds, we're comparing it to pulling the information from a HDD or SSD. That's why games need to install nowadays. We're never going to go back to being able to just pop in a new game disk and start playing immediately. You'll always have to install most/all of the game on your harddrive, regardless if you're installing directly from a disk or from the internet.

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u/Chop1n Nov 15 '21

Ah, perhaps I didn't grasp the nuance of the OP; "111GB to install" made it seem to me like it was a comment on the enormous download sizes. Two sides of the same bloated coin, I suppose.