Ah, yes. The “let’s bloat our game size to bully other games off your SSD so you’ll be reluctant to ever uninstall it, because reinstalling it would be a big pain, that way you’ll play it indefinitely and give us extra money in micro transactions” strategy.
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For AAA games, it absolutely has trended that way. Smaller-budget games haven’t done this nearly so much of course, but it’s no longer even slightly unusual to see indie games with 20+ GB install sizes.
Games are absolutely trending that way. Off the top of my head I can name a ton of games that are > 100GB
It’s becoming more and more common. I have a 2TB NVME SSD exclusively for games and it’s full with ~10 games on it