Most games the data isn't on the disc anymore. You have to connect to the internet to install a 60gb update which is essentially the same thing if you just bought the game from the digital marketplace. Rare for games to have most of the data on the disc nowadys.

This is incredibly wrong.

Game data is on disc, which is why install does not require internet connection. Only patches do.

Most games have very little or none of the data on discs. These day one patches are the majority of the game.

Yeah, I can't find stock for an Xbox or a Playstation. But what do I have? A PC.

So I have been playing Halo Infinite and other MS games without an Xbox. At this point I don't really need one.

Delusional. Humour us and prove it then

Okay. So I have a physical copy of Far Cry 6 for Xbox. I deleted the game and put it back into my Xbox. Here is what I was treated with.

Then I proceeded to upgrade it. And see this.

As you can see from the image 575 MB of the game came from the disc while as 85 GB is downloading from my internet connection.

It's not only a Ubisoft thing.

My biggest complaint regarding Halo Infinite really is that the disc doesn't contain a playable game. This'll be the first Halo game you can't really own as a standalone copy. This is not a good trend and I hope MS reconsiders things like this.

— John Linneman (@dark1x) December 6, 2021

Halo Infinite disc doesn't include the game.

CoD Vanguard cant be played without a a big patch

https://support.activision.com/content/atvi/support/web/en/vanguard/articles/vanguard-installation-and-setup.html

These are 3 of the biggest games of the year. Unfortnutaley I don't have any other physical games besides Far Cry ( I got rid of all my physical games last year) so I cant test it with other games but the last physical game I remember not having to downloading a huge update to play was Evolve and that game came out early last gen.

I did not suggest homes were small in Brazil, and I actually happen to know that they're not (I had a friend who spent a fair bit of time there).  Here's what I said:

"The Series X, and especially the PS5, being larger is a bad thing in emerging markets where living spaces are often more compact."

I was speaking to the emerging markets where living spaces are often more compact, rather than all emerging markets in general.  I was largely thinking of Asia when I said that, though you'll find some smaller residences (or larger residences with lots of people living in them) in all sorts of places, including some in the developed world.

China is a special case because console availability there is not as simple/broad as it would be in freer/less regulated countries such as India and Brazil (far from un-regulated, and with steep import fees in the case of Brazil, but still less regulated than China).

As for piracy, most of the software piracy is on the PC side of things in developed nations.  Not sure about emerging markets.  There was a thriving business being done in mod chips and bootleg games for consoles for a while in southeast Asia, and that happened in the developed world too but seemingly less so due to more law enforcement activity against it.  I think it was a bit more common in parts of Europe, but relatively uncommon in Canada/U.S., and uncommon in general now as modern consoles are harder to hack.  And to the degree that some are easier to jailbreak (I'm looking at you, Switch), higher incomes create less incentive to do so.  But sure, you'll always see some piracy everywhere.  It's just a matter of degrees.

My intent was to suggest it might be first-place amongst dedicated home consoles, not handhelds.  That's why I only mentioned Series S, Series X, and PS5 in my post.  Apologies for any confusion.  I'll edit my post to make that clearer.

It's not incredibly wrong, it's very much correct for many titles.  It's been that way for a while now.  And how could it be otherwise?  Last-gen you had 100-150 GB games coming on 50 GB discs.

Even in the rare circumstance where the entire game is on the disc at launch, by the time the game is several years old the patches will have replaced more and more of the core game, meaning over time less and less of the data on the disc will be relevant to a reinstall.  Increasingly, the disc is just a dongle to prove you own a licence for the game.  Increasingly, your install/re-install situation often doesn't change much whether you have the disc or not.

Hell, the Nintendo Switch has CARTRIDGES without all of the game(s) on them now.  GTA Trilogy has only 2 of the three games on the cartridge, as but one example.  Some Switch carts are little more than a dongle to entitle you to download the game.  Scott the Woz has an entire video on that topic here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moj2wnzvQjY

Some Smart Delivery games only have the Xbox One version on the disc. Metro Exodus and Resident Evil 8 are just 2 examples. Some games actually has both versions on the disc or has 2 discs. It's a game by game basis and unfortunately the case doesn't mention if an internet connection is required, so we don't know what games has both versions on disc(s). At least from what I hear all Xbox Series X games except COD has the full game on disc(s). Flight Sim and Devil May Cry 5 SE are 2 examples. 

And of course as @jason1637 pointed out, some games just barely has anything on the disc rendering the disc completely useless without internet. So to add to that Forza Horizon 5 is one of those games. Apparently it has to do with the base (VCR) Xbox One unable to read blu-ray discs above 50gb, so games with big storage cannot fit both versions or can't even fit one on a disc. That would mean publishers need to use two 50gb discs and even then it may not be enough (I could be wrong on this, but it would make a lot of sense).

So what's the best option? Well for games that can fit both on one disc or two should be 1 case. For those can't just separate the 2 versions in 2 different physical releases where one has the Xbox One version with the ability to download the Series X version, while the other is the Series X version. So basically what Sony is doing already with PS4/PS5.