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Flight Simulator 2020 Is So Big That It Won't Even Fit on ten double-layer DVDs
The flight-sim society is eager to try out the new and pending release Flight Simulator 2020. The title looks to becoming a hit. Not everybody has extremely fast broadband though, so some of you will still need to install physically from a DVD set.
Flight Simulator 2020 will also become available in stores in a physical version. And the game content is available on ten double-layer DVDs. And that's not even everything. I guess we're all slowly getting used to exorbitant storage needs for games, but this title top it all. Officially, the Flight Simulator needs 150 GB of space on your storage solution, that's a condition even for the minimum requirement.
Aerosoft will bring the two physical versions of this grand simulator to buyers in Europe. Including ten double-layer DVDs, and a printed manual in a thrilling box, it is an ideal way to enter the new era of flight simulation, ”said Mathijs Kok, administrator of the company's official forums.
There is the standard and premium deluxe version for 70 and 130 euros from August 18. Both releases contain a total of ten double-layer DVDs (DVD-9), which theoretically hold a total of 85 GB of data in the best case (8.5 GB per DVD). Even that is far from enough for all game data; the rest would need to be downloaded.
I guess for flight sim of this level, it was expected and worth it.
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#5809702 Posted on: 07/16/2020 02:56 PM
Came here for this. If you're going to use optical media in this day and age, might as well use BluRay. Though, I do think the idea of a flash drive would make more sense. That way you might actually be able to read the game data directly from it, without being a major bottelneck.
That's rather ignorant. Your lifestyle isn't everyone else's. I myself could download this in a reasonable amount of time and haven't bought anything with optical media in years, but that doesn't mean everyone can.
Isn't BluRay the only way to get reasonably good quality for movies ? Most streaming services have very lossy compression and I'm not aware of anywhere that allows you to download high-quality movies or TV shows. I welcome being proven wrong here - I'm genuinely curious what we're going to do if BluRay ceases to exist for such things.
Since when are you an authority over other people's hobbies or how they spend their money? Also, if you fly professionally, what's the point of running a simulator (assuming you're not a fighter jet pilot)?
10 DL-DVD's?? Why not use BluRay? Just 2 DL-BluRay can hold allmost 100Gbyte.
Came here for this. If you're going to use optical media in this day and age, might as well use BluRay. Though, I do think the idea of a flash drive would make more sense. That way you might actually be able to read the game data directly from it, without being a major bottelneck.
150GB is the new 150MB, so there is no problem downloading it. "Noone" is using dvd/blueray for games anymore.
That's rather ignorant. Your lifestyle isn't everyone else's. I myself could download this in a reasonable amount of time and haven't bought anything with optical media in years, but that doesn't mean everyone can.
Blurays will survive.... a little longer.
Isn't BluRay the only way to get reasonably good quality for movies ? Most streaming services have very lossy compression and I'm not aware of anywhere that allows you to download high-quality movies or TV shows. I welcome being proven wrong here - I'm genuinely curious what we're going to do if BluRay ceases to exist for such things.
Unless you are into flying professionally or semi professionally, this is waste of money and disk space.
Since when are you an authority over other people's hobbies or how they spend their money? Also, if you fly professionally, what's the point of running a simulator (assuming you're not a fighter jet pilot)?
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#5809710 Posted on: 07/16/2020 03:16 PM
+1 @schmidtbag i was going to make the same points but you beat me to it !
+1 @schmidtbag i was going to make the same points but you beat me to it !
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#5809731 Posted on: 07/16/2020 04:25 PM
You overestimate flash drive speeds. Besides, they would need to use a really cheap, and thus slow, drive to not make it matter much in the whole product price. People wouldn't like it if the physical retail game was, for example, 30 dollars more expensive because of the media (and it would be still much slower than a SATA SSD).
Edit: Though perhaps for some parts of the game the speed would be enough if it was a high quality flash drive. But since it wouldn't be high quality, I doubt it.
Though, I do think the idea of a flash drive would make more sense. That way you might actually be able to read the game data directly from it, without being a major bottelneck.
You overestimate flash drive speeds. Besides, they would need to use a really cheap, and thus slow, drive to not make it matter much in the whole product price. People wouldn't like it if the physical retail game was, for example, 30 dollars more expensive because of the media (and it would be still much slower than a SATA SSD).
Edit: Though perhaps for some parts of the game the speed would be enough if it was a high quality flash drive. But since it wouldn't be high quality, I doubt it.
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#5809732 Posted on: 07/16/2020 04:26 PM
I highly approve of the physical / boxed edition. It would add $20-30 to the cost, though I feel a flash drive may more more sense than optical at this point. I would certainly pay extra for a nostalgic big-box edition of most games if they included a well made / complete manual. I still have some early 90's sims with their several hundred page text book manuals.
I highly approve of the physical / boxed edition. It would add $20-30 to the cost, though I feel a flash drive may more more sense than optical at this point. I would certainly pay extra for a nostalgic big-box edition of most games if they included a well made / complete manual. I still have some early 90's sims with their several hundred page text book manuals.
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Hasn't DVD been dead for a long time now? I think the last physical game I bought on disc was MIrror's Edge back in 2009? And blu-ray was a total joke on PC.