Ah, yes. The “let’s bloat our game size to bully other games off your SSD so you’ll be reluctant to ever uninstall it, because reinstalling it would be a big pain, that way you’ll play it indefinitely and give us extra money in micro transactions” strategy.

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    It’s pretty fuckin wild to only be able to install five games on an entire terabyte

    Storage and download speeds (for a lot of people) have not kept up with the increase in game install sizes. If the average storage space has doubled but the average install size has quadrupled in the same time, you’re worse off in terms of what you can install

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        Well that wouldn’t work if they were all 200 GB like this, would it?

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            Games are absolutely trending that way. Off the top of my head I can name a ton of games that are > 100GB

            • Apex Legends
            • Dirt Rally 2
            • CoD Black Ops 3
            • CoD Black Ops 4
            • CoD ModernWarfare II
            • CoD ModernWarfare III
            • Destiny 2
            • Cyberpunk 2077
            • Pretty much any other AAA title released in the last few years

            It’s becoming more and more common. I have a 2TB NVME SSD exclusively for games and it’s full with ~10 games on it