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I game a lot, but none of the games I play even approach half that size. not all games are bloated, disk space eating messes.

• merb 8y ago
  it actually depends. you can either have a game with extremly fast loading, which means that assets won't be compressed a lot or you can compress them and go for file size, you can even reduce the quality. it always depends on your target audience. but still modern games for pc/mac are around ~10gb per game which would limit your installed game base by a lot. (also working with docker (pc, mac not linux) or vms in general will quickly eat your 500gb hard disk)
  • loeg 8y ago
    I have a 200 GB or so SSD in my gaming computer. Yeah, I basically just install one AAA game at a time.
  • craftyguy 8y ago
    10GB is an order of magnitude less than what GP referenced.. I don't mind being limited to having tens of games installed on a 500GB drive.
  • toast0 8y ago
    Depending on the storage and the compression, loading compressed assets and decompressing them in ram can often be faster than loading uncompressed assets.