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It's pretty standard to do that duplication for games on CD/DVD because seek times are so long. It probably just got carried over as the "obviously correct" way
by wongarsu 11mo ago
It's pretty standard to do that duplication for games on CD/DVD because seek times are so long. It probably just got carried over as the "obviously correct" way of doing things, since HDDs are like DVDs if you squint a bit
- jayd16 11mo agoThe game does ship on disc for console, no?
- Teknoman117 11mo agoThe current generation of consoles can’t play games directly off the disk. They have to be installed to local storage first.
- Arrath 11mo agoI had assumed the practice started to die off when installing games became dominant over streaming from the disc even on consoles. Seems I was wrong!