Submitted 3 hours ago by emb@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
“no choice”
If only lies had consequences.
There were choices. They could do a play/install disc combo. If Sony didn’t allow that for some reason, they could easily split the game in two and put the two SKUs in the same case.
They just didn’t want to. It wasn’t a scenario where there were no options.
If only lies had consequences.
They do. It’s called “voting with your wallet”. Don’t like this decision? Don’t buy the game.
as if that wouldn’t be misconstrued as “people don’t want physical media. Just look at the poor sales”
“First and foremost, personally, I’m very happy that we are able to release a physical disc version of FFVII Revelation considering how the entire gaming market, or the landscape, is veering towards the disc-less direction,”
Except… this might as well not be a physical disc version. It’s like, the worst of both worlds.
It might let you download less than would be the case if it were purely digital.
Fair point, that is an upside. But it still feels like it has all the other downsides of both formats. They can take it away whenever they want because the full game isn’t on disc, and it required all the plastic and shipping to move a physical product without all of the product actually on disc anyway.
No Choice
No buy
Simple as😊
I had totally missed the news that the last part of FFVII remake wouldn’t get a functional physical edition. So disappointing! Especially in the last year of discs. Don’t see why it can’t be on 3 discs, or have been made with 2 discs in mind.
Not doing physical is a way bigger compromise to me than anything else they could have landed on.
Space available on a bluray disk: 50GB max for a dual layer disk.
Game’s total size: 145gb.
The only other choice was to do what they used to do back in the day: Put it on 3 disks.
PS5 discs can store up to 100 GB.
3 then.
cybervseas@lemmy.world 54 minutes ago
It’s hard to imagine what in this game needs to take up 210GB…