• fatalicus@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The problem with your argument is that while you can buy the lower res movie because you don’t need more and if a lower res doesn’t exist you can still watch the high res on your low res TV, you can’t choose to buy a lower install size game or software.

    When you buy those, the size it is is usually what you will have to install to use it, and if you can’t buy a large enough storage to install it…

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      4 hours ago

      I’d be curious to know if game size is increasing over time. My intuition is that we also peaked at 200GB installs. There are bigger games but on average I’m not sure we installation size keeps on growing.