Phil doing what Don couldn’t

    • TheYang
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      1 year ago

      then put in X Disks.

      we did that with (floppy) disks forever, and CDs too.

      I don’t remember any DVDs using that, but they surely existed

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        A single Quad layer Bluray could fit the entire game, but not a ton of PC users have an optical drive, much less a Bluray capable one. A microSD card or USB drive might be more viable these days. A 128GB costs less than $10. When you want to stick to DVDs you would need either 27 (DVD-5), 15 (DVD-9) or 8 (DVD-18). Multi-DVD releases are definitely a thing. Star Wars Battlefront comes on 4 discs. I suspect they would opt for a DVD-9 release as this allows you to print artwork on one of the sites and you likely need a few extra discs as you cannot use all of the storage for data. So we talk about a 16-18 disc release. ~22mm (7/8 inch) of DVD goodness.

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          while I referenced DVD on the top end, I was assuming Blue Ray for the game fyi.
          not sure how big the game is, but rather sure it fits in <4 Blue Rays.

          I think for USB drives and micro SD the durability is terrible (like trying to read it after 5 years has a 10% failure rate, No Idea about the stat, just to illustrate)

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        I think that out spec current xbox consoles? cause I remember reading series x only supports up to the dual layer 66gb ones.

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          They most definitely can read triple layer discs as they are commonly used for 4K Blu-rays. And when a drive can read TL-Blurays it most likely also can read QL-Blu-rays just fine. However, those are rare so I would suspect a 2x TL release.