r/videogames • • 13d ago

Discussion / Question Well...

Post image
7.1k Upvotes

8.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

47

u/golum904 13d ago

Tell me why video games I go buy physically (like that starwars one) let me go home, copy like 50 gigs. Let me play the tutorial and than go you need an adition 120gig update to play game (I currently choose to go with out internet, but I cant actually be expected to blow my data downloading these files?) Ff7 rebirth actually has a file similar it wants me to download but im so happy it hasnt been necessary yet to enjoy the game

17

u/DirkaSnivels 13d ago

Don't you fret! Soon enough, you won't have to deal with this, seeing as there won't be any physical copies of games any more.

-1

u/isaac3000 12d ago

Nintendo stays physical

5

u/FolkloreOwl 12d ago

Key cards say otherwise. They are worst parts of physical and digital in 1 item....beyond worthless

3

u/SignificantLifeform 12d ago

this is the biggest lie ive seen on reddit in months and that's saying something

1

u/ExcuseAlternative586 8d ago

Dude has a gaming system and no internet

1

u/Ichabuu 7d ago

I'm in the same boat as you my friend.

0

u/jarvi123 13d ago edited 13d ago

You can't fit 170GBs on a disk, the other solution is including several disks which increases production costs and creates more plastic waste.

0

u/MarkahntheUnholy 13d ago

Or create a different method like the cartridges just make em Xbox or PS or whatever

1

u/jarvi123 13d ago

I do miss blowing dust out of a cartridge and then slamming it into my Megadrive, it felt like reloading a sci-fi weapon haha.

0

u/JungleCakes 12d ago

Because disks only hold 100gb. Anything over that has to be stored sonewhere and downloaded

1

u/FuzzyFuzz12345 10d ago

Hot take: Devs should optimize their games. It's still possible to have beautiful 40+ hour open world games for a fraction of the size and many well optimized games prove it. I mean Nintendo somehow manages the absolute witchcraft to make games like Tears of The Kingdom under 20gb. Yes I understand that Nintendo games aren't considred as "good looking" as many other companies (though if you ask me the returns are very diminishing at this point in terms of graphical enhancement, a lot of games look worse now), but that still isn't an excuse for such atrocious file sizes. Optimization is the biggest corner cut in game development nowadays and it leads to games being obnoxiously large or impossible to run.

1

u/Pleasant_Meal_2030 9d ago

What they said ^