Yeah but until recently that tracked the decreasing cost of storage, so you might think devs would be prioritizing lower filesizes now
Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 Download Size Revealed To Be 210 GB
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
A “news” telling people the download-size of some game…wow. And it’s slightly bigger than other AAA. Astonishing.
Download-siizes rose for the last 3 decades, who would have ever expected that…
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
glimse@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Can’t believe I’m defending Rockstar here but…
…it’s been in development for over a decade. How would they have planned around this recent surge in prices
Undearius@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago They could have spent that last year or two optimizing the game.
But considering it took some random person on the internet to reverse-engineer the code for GTA V to figure out why online loading times took so long, an issue they left alone for years, I doubt they even spent a minute trying to get file size down.
- Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Compared to the 3000,- a 20MB drive cost said decades ago, storage is cheap 😁 But you say that as if the big studios care about such things. People will pay full price (or probably higher) anyway. Even if it’d be 1TB download.
boonhet@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Yeah but compared to 1.5 years ago, storage is up 2x at least. Even HDDs are more expensive than same size NVME SSDs used to be, it seems.
- Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Everything is closing in at 2x of 1.5yrs ago, so what? Do you use LLMs? Then you’re part of the reason, why are you complaining? Don’t? Then sorry bro…
Besides, my initial post explicitly said “last 3 decades”, so the reference frame was fitting. Despite not being totally serious…
Yggnar@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
When you consider the fact that Rockstar has made it clear they aren’t putting this out on a disc, and the PlayStation hard drive can be as little as 1TB, this is definitely news worth discussing. They’re asking for one fourth of your entire storage space if you’re a PlayStation player.
And you think they give a rat’s ass about your Playstation-storage? :-) People will buy it, even if it needs a playstation for itself. Or came with a playstation bundled. Which only allowed GTA6 on it but costs triple. It would still sell like crazy. At least you now know why they CAN’T put it onto a disc, even if they wanted to :)
So. Will you buy it? if yes, then what are you even talking about? If no, then welcome to the boat, where is the actual problem? When I will maybe buy this in 3-7yrs, i would not care for the 0,2tb it wants anymore. I would not care today, but that’s not really the point.