How can a huge game like Skyrim fit on a CD and be played on a console, while only a few episodes of a TV show can fit on a DVD?

Question

I know that there are two different machines used to read the disks, but does that make a difference in how much a single disk can hold?

Is the difference in the way the disks are read or the type of data they hold?

In: Technology

Answer 1

A lot of the time, the game itself is not entirely stored on the disk (or maybe not even at all). When you first put the disk into your console, it goes to the internet and downloads a lot of the game’s content from a server somewhere and installs it on your console’s hard drive.

This disk is mostly just a physical representation of the license that you purchased for the game; it is not the game itself. Most modern games can be played without a disk or purchased 100% digitally.