Why do video game console discs now require installation, when we could just put them in and play instantly before? Why did PC discs always require installation

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Imagine a disc is an old honda, and loading a game off the disc is like driving somewhere you want to go. That old Honda didn’t go very fast and it took awhile to get wherever you needed to go. Old consoles had to load the game off of the disc, and loading screens were frequent because they were slow like that Honda.

PC’s have always had a storage device where everything is saved (hard drive, solid state drive) think of this storage device as a porche as it is much faster than a disc (old honda). PC gamers wanted to drive their fast porche, but to get to their porche they had to drive their old honda to it first (installing the game).

Consoles now have porches too, in fact computers and consoles now have F1 race cars in them because with new games they have to drive very far (a lot more data to load).