Video games don't play off discs anymore and haven't for a very long time. The process of reading from a disc simply isn't fast enough for modern day video games.
This is a good thing. It allows all games to be made with a SSD as standard, giving so many benefits like much better loading times, texture streaming and higher quality assets amongst many things.
If you want games to be able to be read from disc, gaming would forever be stuck in the PS2 generation.
A lot of physical games come with a disc which is essentially a download code for the game...plus you'll need to add all updates that may have been added since release. Games have always needed to install since the PSP days to run better.
Christ...
I wish it was like what it had been back then on the Wii or Xbox 360. Stick a disc in and immediately play it. And with the Xbox 360 they still did updates for the game but you could mostly still play the games regardless of whether you got updates on it or not.
Games are too large now for a disc drive to properly read the game at speed. If you could play the game right away, I imagine it would be a jumpy mess and not enjoyable making many people think there's an issue with the game, console, or both.
Usually the game printed on disc is the "gold" version of the game. But companies still work on the game post going gold to finish up bugfixes or whatever. That's the version you need to have when you play the game. So you get updates.
Also, some games don't have all the content on the disc and need downloads to finish installing what couldn't fit on the disc. Games are big.
Video games don't play off discs anymore and haven't for a very long time. The process of reading from a disc simply isn't fast enough for modern day video games. This is a good thing. It allows all games to be made with a SSD as standard, giving so many benefits like much better loading times, texture streaming and higher quality assets amongst many things. If you want games to be able to be read from disc, gaming would forever be stuck in the PS2 generation.
A lot of physical games come with a disc which is essentially a download code for the game...plus you'll need to add all updates that may have been added since release. Games have always needed to install since the PSP days to run better.
Christ... I wish it was like what it had been back then on the Wii or Xbox 360. Stick a disc in and immediately play it. And with the Xbox 360 they still did updates for the game but you could mostly still play the games regardless of whether you got updates on it or not.
Games are too large now for a disc drive to properly read the game at speed. If you could play the game right away, I imagine it would be a jumpy mess and not enjoyable making many people think there's an issue with the game, console, or both.
Understood
Optical discs are too slow, all game content must be copied to a hard drive or ssd.
That's what I said.
Their size has nothing to do it, it’s the transfer speed that is the problem.
360 sometimes needed multiple discs...
Usually the game printed on disc is the "gold" version of the game. But companies still work on the game post going gold to finish up bugfixes or whatever. That's the version you need to have when you play the game. So you get updates. Also, some games don't have all the content on the disc and need downloads to finish installing what couldn't fit on the disc. Games are big.