Xenoblade Chronicles X has data installs to speed up game

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curl-6 said:

Scoobes said:

Clyde32 said:

alternine said:

So essentially a Day 1 patch. Monolith you snarky dogs.

1. The digital version has this included. This just couldn't fit on the disc. 

How does that work? Don't these downloads just use the same data that's currently on the discs anyway? (Same textures, assets etc.)

It should be the same assets, yes. Hard drive streaming is faster than disc streaming; Ground Texture A will be on the disc, but having the same file on the hard drive means it can be accessed more quickly.

I know that, but his point was that they couldn't fit the data on the disc. I'm trying to figure out why they couldn't just have an installation app to install/copy the assets onto the HDD rather than downloading them from the internet. Just seems a bit weird, or am I missing something?