And now because Playstation has abandoned physical media, if you want GTA VI you have to download it, and the download will eat up 600 gigabytes of space.
The Playstation 5 can only hold 800 gigabytes to one terabyte of storage, unless you're willing to buy an additional SSD for it, and SSDs can only hold up to eight terabytes of data. Limiting the number of games you can own to the amount of data storage space on your console is a move that I think will hurt Sony in the long run, especially if future games eat up more than one terabyte of space.
It doesn't have to be this way. Physical media still has a future. There's a company called Folio Photonics that is working on making optical discs that can hold one terabyte of data. A terabyte is a thousand gigabytes, more than enough space for GTA VI. Or you can distribute games on SD cards like the Nintendo Switch does. Some SD cards can hold up to two terabytes of data, though they're prohibitively expensive when they hold that much data in such a small space. To fix this problem, Sony can make SD-like cartridges that are the size of credit cards or optical discs (CDs/DVDs). Enlarging the cards would also make them harder to lose.
