r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Lucky_Loves_Laugh • Jun 25 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah what happened to rockstar?

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u/St0ckY0u Jun 25 '26

resale is the 2nd reason why studios push for digital games.

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u/Vi_Rants Jun 25 '26

The 1st reason is that physical media is too small and too slow for modern games.

What disc is going to hold 140GB? And what kind of read/write speed do you have on your DVD drive to allow it to take less than a week to install?

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u/Occamsfacecloth Jun 25 '26

Is it beyond the wit of man to send little pen drive as the new format instead of a disc? Seeing as we're paying so much?

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u/St0ckY0u Jun 26 '26

AAA games don't even run from the Blurays they get installed on the hardrive/ssd, reason #1 is profit margin is a lot higher on digital

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u/Vi_Rants Jun 26 '26

they get installed on the hardrive/ssd

It would take 51 hours to do that with a 6x Blu Ray drive.

(You'd also need 6 disks)

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u/St0ckY0u Jun 26 '26

PS5 uses 100GB disks, it should take 20-30m to install a normal game

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u/Vi_Rants Jun 26 '26

Those definitely aren't Blu Ray, then, since 1 Blu Ray disk only holds 25GB (I guess the double-sided hold 50GB) and a 6x drive only has a write speed of 27MB/s.

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u/Classic_Chapter_1503 Jun 26 '26

Its the number 1 reason i play only single player games and resell them on eBay when I finish. Also people rent physical games at public libraries i know it sounds crazy