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[–] Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Didn’t Nintendo already start doing this with the switch two?

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[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

So, having a PC is better again, because there is not subscription for online services there...?

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (8 children)

It really sucks, but unless someone was to come up with a way to cram massive amounts of a game onto single discs, or no more than two, it was inevitable. That's not why they're doing it, but still

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io -1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I want to be mad about this, but I own a PS5 with a disc drive and dozens of games, and none of them are physical. I can't run the game off the disc and still need the available storage space to run it (and often doesn't contain a full/completed version of the game), so the disc is just an extra step that gets in the way.

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[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Makes sense (kinda)

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