Does anyone know why earlier Pc games from the 2000's had multiple discs but when it...

[Blueregard Thompson]

Does anyone know why earlier Pc games from the 2000's had multiple discs but when it comes to the same game on Ps2 or Xbox, they were just one?

 

[Dustin Williams]

DVD vs cdrom

 

[Choosh Leszczynski]

The PS2's disc spins faster and the laser reading it is smaller. They can cram in more information on one disc.

 

[David Palermo]

Running off a disc is different then. Unpacking and installing into a harddisc. Especially when consoles have uniform hardware and PCs are a mixed bag. Lots of things go into this. How much time do you have lol

 

[Niels van der Waa]

Dvd's vs cdrom, and data compression

 

[Gian Dovidio]

Holy shit I'm old

 

[Kevin Edward]

A combination of disk type and the fact console games have lower resolution textures etc so needed less space in the first place.

 

[Clive Miller]

Gta v has two disks... so does some cod games... atleast on the xbox 360 it did

 

[James Baker-Hewitt]

BF 4 had 4 disks...

 

[Eric Carver]

Play a console version of a PC game.....you will notice graphics, areas, all sorts of things are severely dumbed down.