You may recall Indiana Jones and the Great Circle\u2019s<\/a> physical edition also required a significant download, with just 20GB of data included on the disc.<\/p>\n Well, early copies of the new DOOM game include an \u2018Internet Required\u2019 disclaimer on the box, and while there\u2019s conflicting information at the moment<\/a>, some are stating that the title simply won\u2019t boot without a download.<\/p>\n This situation is different to a day one patch, by the way: typically, Blu-rays include a fully playable version of a game, so you can at least insert it into your PS5 and play it without ever connecting to the Internet. In this instance, only a small portion of the game\u2019s data has been burned onto the disc, with the rest requiring a download.<\/p>\n It\u2019s obviously not massively dissimilar to Nintendo Switch 2\u2019s Game Key Card situation, which sees you purchasing a physical cartridge which merely acts as a gateway to download the game. The difference here is that cartridges do genuinely have sizeable costs associated with them, while Blu-rays cost pennies.<\/p>\n All in all, we\u2019re really dissatisfied with Microsoft\u2019s support of physical on the PS5. Games like Forza Horizon 5<\/a> haven\u2019t received boxed releases at all, and assuming DOOM: The Dark Ages is the same as Indiana Jones, then Bethesda may as well have not bothered either.<\/p>\n None of this is good for future game preservation.<\/p>\n [source x.com<\/a>, via resetera.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Personally, we\u2019d like Sony to prevent publishers from doing this. While we can understand there\u2019s a cost associated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[566,42638,55,273,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-89877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-bethesda","9":"tag-doom","10":"tag-ps5","11":"tag-rumours","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114483199025261786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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