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Bigger Than Godzilla: Why Are Games Using So Many Gigabytes? (www.techspot.com)

submitted 11 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I actually wonder if that's legitimately their goal.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It might not be their goal because large files have performance ramifications, but if they can they save on cpu by taking space.

Plus they know their players don't play their entire catalog and stick to specific franchises because games are so fucking expensive, so now they make you have to gamble if you're going to buy this other game an wipe your console to just stick with what's installed. For live service games this is definitely profitable.