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

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Arrath 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The game does ship on disc for console, no?

	▲	Teknoman117 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The current generation of consoles can’t play games directly off the disk. They have to be installed to local storage first.