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Sony reminds players they don't actually own the PlayStation games they purchased (www.techspot.com)

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[-] pipes@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

UHD Blu-rays go up to 100GB so that covers many games, for more than that it'd have to be a digital download I guess

The PlayStation 3 was the first console to use (standard) Blu-rays, 20 years ago :) some people argued it was cheaper than dedicated BD players, many used it to watch movies.

[-] SatyrSack@quokk.au 7 points 2 days ago

UHD Blu-rays go up to 100GB so that covers many games, for more than that it’d have to be a digital download I guess

We used to deal with games that came as multiple discs. We can do that again, if we have to.

But, I would personally rather see DRM-free digital downloads for many reasons.

[-] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

That's just triple layer. Quad layer goes up to 128GB.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It would also seem people have forgotten the Installation disc that was common towards the end of the 360 era. The PS3 already copied the whole Blu-ray to storage with the only real difference being it was quicker to copy physical than to rely on PSN's awful bandwidth. A lot of people still have crappy imternet so it makes no sense to take away the option to wait a day for a box with 2 discs to arrive.

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