Highly anticipated Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launches in just a few days, so retailers are beginning to receive allotments. Images of the physical version leaked over the.
A hot potato: In 2020, digital downloads overtook physical game sales for the first ever. The distribution medium has grown steadily over the last decade, making its prevalence inevitable. Both media forms have advantages and disadvantages, and users support either vehemently. But when does a physical game stop being a physical game?
Highly anticipated Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launches in just a few days, so retailers are beginning to receive allotments. Images of the physical version leaked over the weekend reveal that EA has not included the entire game on the disc. Jedi: Survivor box art says, “Download required” in fine print (below). In other words, that physical copy likely only contains an installer that retrieves the digital version from the internet.
Considering that Survivor weighs in at a whopping 155GB, which can’t fit on a single disc, it might not be surprising that EA chose to do it this way. Putting all that data into physical media would require six dual-layer DVDs or four Blu-rays.
