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?

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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?

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A movie is like a cake and the DVD player is a fork you can eat it with.

A game is like the ingredients and a recipe, and the computer is the tools you make the cake with and eat.

The Skyrim files contain everything the game can show you (the textures, the models, the sounds, the voices) and has a lot of “script” to direct what goes where and what does what, but your computer (in this, a console is a computer) will do the work of reading the script and arranging everything according to it.

Another analogy would be a record of a theater play and the play’s text + costume descriptions. The recording is static, consumes a lot of place, but text is very small and costume descriptions even with pictures won’t take a lot of space either.

But then if you want to see the play, you have to manufacture the costumes and employ people to play the roles, which is what your console is there for.

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