wazzupdog comments on My last PlayStation.

[–] wazzupdog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 4 days ago (6 children)

My ps3 was my last PlayStation couldn't justify a ps4 and the ps5 was a nightmare for all the games releasing digital only (or having a disc that was effectively a drink coaster due to the game still needing downloaded in order to play)

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca [S] 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I noticed the PS4 games took up way more hard drive space than the PS3 ones

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[–] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago

Some PS3 games where 20-40GB each. You didn’t see the file size since the game actually ran off the disc. For a console where the average system size was 160GB is was not enough.

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[–] smaximov@lemmy.world 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

I would take a guess and say PS4 games took way more space than PS2 and PS1 as well.

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca [S] 2 points 4 days ago

It seems that games run more from the disc than say the PS3 hard drive.

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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 child)

Don’t you still need the disc for the license

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[–] wazzupdog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago

Yes, but if/when Sony kills support for those systems the disc becomes a useless piece of plastic unless you have the entire game catalog installed. A ton of discs don't contain enough of the game data to be playable out of the box.

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