• mlg@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Yeah i meant consoles and console disk rips lol.

    Don’t know what they’re doing these days exactly but I think for PS4 era they were still doing IO on the disk for game data reads. But that was around when SSDs started becoming cheaper, so one of the upgrade paths was digital release + SSD.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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      14 minutes ago

      The PS4 era was not reading from the disk for gameplay. You’d copy the entire game to console storage and the only thing the disk was used for was a license check. You’re thinking of the PS3 which was… a very long time ago now.