GameStop Boss Says Disc Drives Should Be Required On Game Consoles - eviltoast

“It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing,” says guy who makes money selling the thing.

  • eleanor@social.hamington.net
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    1 year ago

    They do. sorta. It’s definitely possible to put something like Starfield on a dual layer BDROM, probably even uncompressed! But then load times would be fucking crazy because BD is an order of magnitude slower than an SSD.

    Distributing install files for a day 1 version of a game and using the disc as an auth key, (which is what they did last gen iirc) is still possible.

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      1 year ago

      Transfer the BDROM to my SSD. Literally the same thing as downloading it online. I don’t need it to read off the disc while I play. 360 did this and it worked perfectly fine.