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submitted 3 days ago by catsup@lemmy.one to c/memes@lemmy.world

A Meme. The first half shows a screenshot of the game "Banana" on Steam, showing how it weighs 1.89 Gigabytes. The second half shows a couple of native americans talking on a snowy landscape while inspecting footprints on the snow.

Native A: A western game dev has been here. Native B: How can you tell? Native A: It weighs 1.89 Gigabytes.

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago

Maybe they are making fun of obesity?

[-] catsup@lemmy.one 35 points 3 days ago

Western countries (USA) often have rich economies, which means that the average person in said countries often has better access to high amounts of storage than people from impoverished countries. This makes it so it's not a priority for companies targeting that audience to optimize for disk space.

TLDR: Rich countries get beefy PCs, which get unoptimized games

[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

1.9gb is a high amount of storage?

[-] sag@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago
[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago

No, it really isn't... Not in 2024.

[-] SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's a game where you click bananas.

There is no reason for it to be so large. It is a banana. That you click.

[-] sag@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

As a person who have 32 GB storage on my mobile device. It is.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

It's not a mobile game though.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You're right. It actually has less content than any mobile game except cookie clicker (and even then it's arguable cookie clicker has more content). In reality this should fit on an 8gb phone from 2010 because it is literally just a single image of a banana that you click on.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

It does fit on a 8 GB phone though.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I mean assuming you have nothing else except the OS on it fair enough I guess

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