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[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago

A "news" telling people the download-size of some game...wow. And it's slightly bigger than other AAA. Astonishing.

Download-siizes rose for the last 3 decades, who would have ever expected that...

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 hours ago

Yeah but until recently that tracked the decreasing cost of storage, so you might think devs would be prioritizing lower filesizes now

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Can't believe I'm defending Rockstar here but...

...it's been in development for over a decade. How would they have planned around this recent surge in prices

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip -4 points 10 hours ago

Compared to the 3000,- a 20MB drive cost said decades ago, storage is cheap ๐Ÿ˜ But you say that as if the big studios care about such things. People will pay full price (or probably higher) anyway. Even if it'd be 1TB download.

[-] boonhet@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 hours ago

Yeah but compared to 1.5 years ago, storage is up 2x at least. Even HDDs are more expensive than same size NVME SSDs used to be, it seems.

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Everything is closing in at 2x of 1.5yrs ago, so what? Do you use LLMs? Then you're part of the reason, why are you complaining? Don't? Then sorry bro...

Besides, my initial post explicitly said "last 3 decades", so the reference frame was fitting. Despite not being totally serious...

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