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Two Game Retailers Are Refusing To Sell GTA 6 Until There’s A Disc (kotaku.com)
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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

a disc

Considering the size of the game, it would need at least 3 discs. Doubt they're gonna redesign every case to accommodate that.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 hour ago

A bluray can hold 100 GB. They could fit it on one if they only put low resolution textures on the disk and made the high res textures a download.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

TDK had 320GB BluRays ready in 2009. I don't think GTA VI will need more than that.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

No, see, you include a disk but all that disk has on it is the installer for the launcher with a “download gta6” command thrown on the end.

This is nowhere near the first “doesn’t contain a disk” game and choosing gta as the one to throw a fit over feels performative. This has been a thing for over a decade.