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So not that it actually matters at all, but I remember FF7R was a two-disc game too - it had an install disc and a play disc, each half the size of a PS5 game disc. I kinda wonder if FF7R2 is gonna be the same way or if we're finally going to see disc swap screens come back


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It won't because no PS5 game runs by streaming data from the disc. They simply stopped doing that after the PS3. The console copies everything on its hard drive and then only requires a disc to be inserted as a proof of purchase. One was called install and the other play for Remake literally just to make you copy the content of both before starting to play.

I haven't played it on PS4 myself, but I'd been told that the play disc doesn't get installed before you start playing like the install disc does; it uses the PS4's streaming install feature to do that in the background while you're playing.

Yes games on playstation are required to be playable before the whole thing is installed/downloaded. So if all of the initial payload needed to run is on the install disk then you can start the game right away once that's installed. But the console still needs to copy everything on both disks. It just does it quietly and in the background. In theory you could reach the end of the content in the initial payload before the rest is done installing and the game would have to tell you to wait. I've tested this exact circumstance on plenty of games to see if they complied with the guidelines.

The point is, no game streams the assets directly from the disc into ram anymore. It's slower than using the hard drive. It wears out the console's disc drive super fast. And if the disc has scratches it can lead to all sorts of problems. I get why people find the disc swap nostalgic but it's also a bit of a pain to implement and test. Not to mention you'd need to make an exception for folks who bought the game digitally. At best I could see them do a transition animation that calls back to the disc swap but nothing more. Sorry if that ended up being a lot of rambling.