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Can't use the word "buy" if you can't actually buy the thing.

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[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No CDs big enough, sure. Most modern consoles (like PlayStation and Xbox) use Blu-ray as their disc type for physical copies of games. Those can hold up to 100 GB for PlayStation 5 in particular.

Regardless, even if the disc isn’t able to store enough data to hold any one game, it isn’t immediately a problem. For example, the physical copy for the PS4 version of Red Dead Redemption 2 came with two discs to hold all of the data. There are ways around any data capacity limitations more often than not for physical media.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

The best part is a lot of games are bloated because discs are very slow in random seek, so they format the files to load in sequence and results in a lot of assets are duplicated.