Why Modern Games Need More Disk Space and Speed Than Ever Before
Games are placing increasing demands on storage mediums
If you have downloaded a modern game recently, you may have noticed that the disk space requirements have increased dramatically over the past few years. In addition to just the raw storage capacity, the speed of the device is also becoming a lot more important. Just a few years ago, a normal hard drive was sufficient for almost every game. SSDs were new and expensive and if at all, regular consumers only had a small SSD for the operating system. And while SSDs have gotten a lot cheaper since then, they are still more expensive than HDDs, which means you can have fewer games on your device than you could have a few years ago. Given the importance of storage for modern games, it’s not surprising that a major focus of the PS5 announcement stream was the SSD, which is supposed to be up to 100 times faster than the PS4 HDD.
Why do games need so much storage space?
Let’s have a look at why games need so much storage space. The biggest reason is texture data. 4K textures are becoming common, and a single…
