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wongarsu
11 days ago
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Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
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
Arrath
10 days ago
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I 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!
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jayd16
10 days ago
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The game does ship on disc for console, no?
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Teknoman117
10 days ago
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The current generation of consoles can’t play games directly off the disk. They have to be installed to local storage first.
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