Why is it that digital copies of games still take just as long as disc based games to load? This counts for loading the game at startup and elements of the area.

Question

Why is it that digital copies of games still take just as long as disc based games to load? This counts for loading the game at startup and elements of the area.

In: Technology

Answer 1

Partly, even if you *do* have a game that loads data from physical media, the transfer rate from drive is not necessarily the bottleneck, but the memory speed might be.