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Again, games haven’t steamed from disc in years. AAA games are not hindered by disc speed. The disc is used to install the game, and then the game is played from drive as if you had downloaded it anyway. You seem to have a few misunderstanding regarding this tech.

I’m also definitely not claiming that our little corner of the internet is representative of consumers at large. Sorry that I gave off that impression.

However, I also think it’s worth mentioning that what consumers at large want is frankly rarely relevant. Companies have been driving the trends, rather than the other way around, for a looooong time now. Like, before I was born.

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Graphiar@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
No misunderstanding. My point stands that standard blueray discs on PS4 as an example do not use quad layer discs, and they’re too small to hold 80GB+ AAA media like most games are nowadays.

I completely understand the difference between streaming from disc and transferring to hard storage. Both are true at the same time. I haven’t seen a single, large AAA game transfer from disc to SSD this generation. I also haven’t seen a game stream from disc since late 7th generation.

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- iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  All games, AAA or not, for the current gen install from disc onto internal drive. None stream from disc. I don’t know what games you’ve bought from 2020 onwards, but Forbidden West is the only other major release I’m aware of that skipped the disc.
  
  You said you haven’t seen a game install from disc, but also that you haven’t seen one stream from disc, so I’m genuinely unsure what you’re trying to say anymore. And you’re still wrong about how much data a PS5 disc can hold, which is up to 100GB on a triple (not quad) player ultra blu-ray disc.
  
  Genuinely friend I think you are misinformed or confused about some things, or I just have no idea what you’re trying to say.
  
  BTW, two people disagreeing doesn’t need to be a debate. We’re just having a conversation. All is well my friend.
  
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