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Many console games are available on physical media. They still don’t have gigantic differences in size from the digital only pc Steam games. That’s probably be
by ViktorRay 2y ago
Many console games are available on physical media. They still don’t have gigantic differences in size from the digital only pc Steam games.
That’s probably because they’re sold on Blu Ray discs though. If you had cartridge based consoles maybe you could have gigantic games nowadays.
Actually…couldn’t you have gigantic terabyte games anyway? I’m not aware of Steam or any of the consoles restricting game data size…
Hmmm
- kbolino 2y agoThe Switch is a cartridge-based console, but it can't really benefit from massive assets since the hardware is so weak. Best I can find is that the cartridge is limited to 32 GB, though whether that's because it's just SDHC under the hood or there wasn't a reason to make a larger one yet, I don't know. One problem with flash memory is that it starts getting surprisingly expensive when you need it to be large, fast, and reliable.
- Arrath 2y agoGive it a few more years and the annual Call of Duty title may well hit a tb. The latest one is up to something like 300gb iirc.