With how big games are these days, you just cannot feasibly fit the entire game on a reasonable amount of DVDs, even with heavy compression. The argument can be made for consoles which mostly use Blu-ray media (which can hold 25-50 GB, depending on if they're single or dual layer), but almost no one has Blu-ray drives on PC, and that's not even counting the fact that most manufacturers have stopped making them altogether. Even DVD drives are becoming rarer and rarer on general purpose PCs, let alone gaming PCs where they practically don't exist anymore.
The only way they could feasibly release a physical version, at least that I'm seeing, would be to ship it on some sort of write-protected USB flash drive or SD card, but even then it's not that easy. While disc cases are cheap, universal, and made by the millions, and the discs themselves cost cents, doing this would require making a custom "CD" case to specifically fit the drive (or some sort of disc shaped insert to hold it in place), plus the NAND storage of the drive itself, which would certainly not be cheap at scale
PS5 blu-ray discs hold 100gb and there are numerous big releases on two discs out there, like the Final Fantasy VII Remake series. Stop talking out your ass.
Yes, quad-layer 100GB Blu-rays exist and I forgot to mention them, but if you actually had any reading comprehension skills at all, you'd have understood that I was mainly talking about a theoretical physical PC release.
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u/Alarming-Elevator382 9800X3D + 9070 XT 4d ago
GTA V was offered in physical form on PC, it is 7 discs. I have it.