I can’t remember the last time I saw a game do that. I remember during the early 8th gen days they did indeed do that, but from what I recall that practice started to dissolve late that generation. Well after quad layer discs showed up. For standard size blue ray discs like what PS4 uses they’re just not big enough.
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VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 4 hours agoGames haven’t actually been played off of the disc in ages, though. The system typically just uses it for installation to the HDD or SSD and then as a key to allow the user to run the program.
Graphiar@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 hours ago
The install for the 3 games I have on disk for my PS5 takes up less space than the digital versions, and you very much can hear when it’s loading off the disk since the drive is super loud when it’s not just spinning idle.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 hour ago
As I understand it, game discs spin up to essentially read the disc which serves as a kinda of “key” to let the game launch. Not sure why it would be different install size from downloaded version, unless there’s some patching differences for some reason.