> But nowadays consoles have the same issues: Giant downloads

At least for PS5 the opposite is true: if a game uses kraken texture compression, and many do, PS5 variant will be the smallest.

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littlecranky67 3 days ago | parent [-]

How is that even an argument - the PS5 has had proper discs. The issue is, the disc content is 1GB file that requires a 50GB download.

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viktorcode 3 days ago | parent [-]

In modern game development practice you will have to download patches anyway, so whatever there's on disk is irrelevant. Hardware has nothing to do with that.

	▲	littlecranky67 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly that was my point. Consoles used to have a seamless "put in disc and lets go" experience, but they lost it and now are on par with PCs on that UX.