• Jackusflackus@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    You think a mechanical hdd is sufficient for playing a 100gb game? That would be so painful it’s not even funny.

    • aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      Ps4 had a mechanical hard drive and I played a few enormous games on that. Don’t remember it being a problem so I don’t think that’s such a hard and fast rule

      • moody@lemmings.world
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        6 days ago

        It’s not. The size of the game isn’t the limiting factor.

        Anecdotally, I played Horizon Forbidden West on PS4 and occasionally got loading screens while out and about in the open world. I assume the HDD was the cause of this.

      • Starski@lemmy.zip
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        6 days ago

        Games have changed quite a bit in the past couple decades grandpa

    • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 days ago

      Yes, it depends the game.

      There are 20gb games that require much faster medium than retail WoW which is like 80gigs, despite the engines lineage tracing back to when it would’ve been stored on rust made by Maxtor.