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Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

add up a bit for their storage requirements

I bet I, myself, with my current hardware could store ALL of the cloud save files with redundancy.

Save files are usually some type of text. All of the text on Wikipedia comes out to about 24 GB.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago

True that text is small files, but some Skyrim saves are easily in the dozens of MB for example. I'm sure you multiply that by millions and it adds up. Surely them needing to store many copies of the game files themselves is a larger file size footprint for them though.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

What are you betting? Paradox save files even compressed are quite large.