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Pyro as Bill on 27 October 2016
Faelco said:
Pyro as Bill said:
GTA IV - 16GB
x4
GTA V - 65GB
x4
GTA VI ~ 260GB

That will be 6 disks that need installing using old tech or 1 cartridge if MS/Sony get with the times.

"If MS/Sony get with the times". Amazing. Now Nintendo is revolutionizing everything because they use SD cards, and everyone not doing the same is "behind the times". Sure, I love this way of thinking.

And Nintendo fans get angry when we say that some of them are.... let's say... "too enthusiastic"?

So what does MS/Sony do when games get that big? 6 disks or a cartridge?

Poor Sony. No more physical media format to leverage the console off.



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Airaku on 27 October 2016

We still don't know how much data is on the game carts. Furthermore it's possible they are read/write game carts. I kind of think developers will be able to patch their games right onto the game cart itself.




JRPGfan on 27 October 2016
Pyro as Bill said:
Faelco said:

"If MS/Sony get with the times". Amazing. Now Nintendo is revolutionizing everything because they use SD cards, and everyone not doing the same is "behind the times". Sure, I love this way of thinking.

And Nintendo fans get angry when we say that some of them are.... let's say... "too enthusiastic"?

So what does MS/Sony do when games get that big? 6 disks or a cartridge?

Poor Sony. No more physical media format to leverage the console off.

They ll just resort to multiple discs.

PS1 & PS2 had games that used multiple discs before, it wasnt that bad.



Volterra_90 on 27 October 2016

I think it should be a minimum of 512 GB, but, hey, I can live with it. It's just a matter of buying cards. Far from ideal, sure... But I spent my entire life with dozens of cards with me and my handheld device, so I don't have to get used to it. Still, it's a bad decision. Nintendo, you have a phenomenal concept in your hands imo. Don't screw this up with nonsensical decisions.



Pyro as Bill on 27 October 2016
JRPGfan said:
Pyro as Bill said:

So what does MS/Sony do when games get that big? 6 disks or a cartridge?

Poor Sony. No more physical media format to leverage the console off.

They ll just resort to multiple discs.

PS1 & PS2 had games that used multiple discs before, it wasnt that bad.

Multiple disks is one thing but SIX? And they didn't need to be installed in those days. Changing disks is one thing, installing 250GB with 6 disks is something else.

Those 6 disks in 5 years will be 24 disks in 10 years.

Hopefully we'll have 1,000,000 megabit internet by then. Or they could just use a 1TB microSD.



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Faelco on 27 October 2016
JRPGfan said:
Pyro as Bill said:

So what does MS/Sony do when games get that big? 6 disks or a cartridge?

Poor Sony. No more physical media format to leverage the console off.

They ll just resort to multiple discs.

PS1 & PS2 had games that used multiple discs before, it wasnt that bad.

Or a new format, or everything digital, or other solutions... People were surely saying the same thing 20 years ago "What will you do when you'll need several cartridges?", "What will you do when you'll need too much CDs?", "What will you do when you'll need too much DVDs?"....

I'll wait for the release of the 260GB heavy GTA VI on the Switch before agreeing completely with you!



JRPGfan on 27 October 2016

I dont think even 4k will require the use of that many discs.
We re talking after playstation 5...... Playstation 6.....

By then they will have better discs (size) / Hard drives, or something new.



Pyro as Bill on 27 October 2016
Faelco said:
JRPGfan said:

They ll just resort to multiple discs.

PS1 & PS2 had games that used multiple discs before, it wasnt that bad.

Or a new format, or everything digital, or other solutions... People were surely saying the same thing 20 years ago "What will you do when you'll need several cartridges?", "What will you do when you'll need too much CDs?", "What will you do when you'll need too much DVDs?"....

I'll wait for the release of the 260GB heavy GTA VI on the Switch before agreeing completely with you!

We already have the new format. It's not new.

Looking forward to see Sony invent a format that can compete with SD cards.

Poor Sony. So sad.

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Pyro as Bill on 27 October 2016
JRPGfan said:
I dont think even 4k will require the use of that many discs.
We re talking after playstation 5...... Playstation 6.....

By then they will have better discs (size) / Hard drives, or something new.

What makes you think we need disks anymore?



Nov 2016 - NES outsells PS1 (JP)

Don't Play Stationary 4 ever. Switch!

JRPGfan on 27 October 2016
Pyro as Bill said:
JRPGfan said:
I dont think even 4k will require the use of that many discs.
We re talking after playstation 5...... Playstation 6.....

By then they will have better discs (size) / Hard drives, or something new.

What makes you think we need disks anymore?

If Cartridges/cards get cheap enough... Im all for doing away with discs.