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GameStop Boss Says Disc Drives Should Be Required On Game Consoles (www.gamespot.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Still possible, but why would that be useful to anyone?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The same thing except you then have to pay for the disk, distribution and worry about stock and so on.