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Some Xbox One Game Sizes (Forza 5, Ryse, DR3)
- Thread starter SEGAvangelist
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why shouldn't you be worried if you'll be able to play your games 10+ years from now?
You can play games while they download. Don't know what determines at what point you can though.
phosphor112
Banned
I had to do that this gen, and I have a 500 in my PS3. These games are much larger than this gens.
I like having all of my games readily available.
The problem is that 1tb drives arent too terribly common in the size of drive that is used in the ps4 and likely xbone (didnt even exist a year or two ago)
Thats why its absolutely insane they didnt make the xbone drive upgradable though (even if they made it proprietary drives again)
Im thinking 4tb is the sweet spot for this gen
Titanfall will be out by the time you're done.
Most of the games I want are probably smaller. At least I hope so. There's no way Powerstar, Peggle 2, Crimson Dragon, and Killer Instinct are over 10 gig each, right?
Albert's tweet also means that once again MS is downloading install packages. I love that unlike the Wii U and PS3 that there's no additional install after the download finishes. My hope is Sony moved to that approach on PS4.
Syphon Filter
Member
it will be since you can play while it downloads...
Seamless installs while you play is way better than waiting hours to start playing. Even with stuff like PlayGo it would take me over two hours to start playing then I'd have to take breaks when I catch up to my connection. No thanks.
Never said you shouldn't be. There's just different levels to being worried about it.
I'm personally not that worried about it since the majority of games that I go back to play when the gen is over are pick up and play -- so not that many games from these past 2 gens.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Well internet connections are getting much faster for lower prices, now. The difference in available bandwidth is growing quickly in the markets I've been in recently. I assume the same is happening in most of North America. The install discs were in place as a way of transitioning people to digital. I think it was 5 years too early personally.
I want digital titles too but I'm guessing that all of the retail titles I want will be close to 350 GB in size. We'll see though.
Syphon Filter
Member
no,you stick to the past.
"Fergal Gara’s original assessment of Killzone: Shadow Fall “cracking on” for 50GB has turned out to be a little off, as Guerrilla Games confirmed to Eurogamer that the final digital file size of the game will be 39.7GB in Europe."
Dat 900p game being more in filesize. =p
Semi related, but albert had an interesting tweet about game downloading.
Apparently after a retail disk installs, if you buy it digitally there is no download needed. Pretty neat.
That's pretty nice, probably the way I would go if I wanted to build a digital library.
Whatever you quoted is a banned source. CAn't see the link.
You can delete the games off the HDD you know?
eso76
Member
I hope it's still true you can start playing as you install/download, but I really doubt that's the case with every game, sounds incredibly hard for the developer.
35 GB should take me 10/12 hours, not as bad as I thought.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Before the 180, when you bought a physical game, you got a digital copy.
Hopefully that is a possibility in the future.
I'd rather not do that. I bought a 1TB hard drive for my PS3 so I can download every PS+ game. If I decide I want to play a game of mine, I don't want to wait for it to install. It can take a long time too. GTAV took a while, and that was only 8GB. 40GB installs, plus blu-ray's slower read speed, should take a while.
My concerns are with available hard drive space.
Seeing if I can find a similar article from a non-banned site.
IdreamofHIME
Member
Like I said in the PS4 thread, can you imagine how much bigger they're gonna be in a few years?
I don't even want to think about the size of Final Fantasy XV.
I don't even want to think about the size of Final Fantasy XV.
bigboss370
Member
dat next gen file size.
as for mandatory installs, any insights on how long those would take for games of this size? i know you play as they install, but I still wanna know how long it takes overall.
as for mandatory installs, any insights on how long those would take for games of this size? i know you play as they install, but I still wanna know how long it takes overall.
I mean in the future. 2 years from now maybe.
As in when a 4tb drive is affordable, that is when we would finally have enough space available.
The thought of a 500gb drive at the start of this gen was crazy but it became essential for playstation plus at least or anyone that went digital with their games.
Is the limit on the discs not 50 gig?
Eurogamer is fair game here, correct?
Multiple discs. You know it's coming.
Chobel
Member
User 73706
Banned
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Brain of J
Banned
I'm less concerned with the HD space as I am for the download times and running up against the monthly limits from Comcast. Why hasn't anyone developed a .zip type file for downloading games? Is that even possible?
Its inevitable.
plus I thought I read that higher capacity blu ray discs were being developed.
Got'cha. I was saying it would be good to see if we can confirm (with AP even) where Xbone games can start being played. 7 gigs still seems a lot to start.
phosphor112
Banned
1) Download speeds aren't great
2) You still have to download a significant sized file to start playing (e.g. KZSF requires 7.5 out of the 39.7gb to be downloaded before playing) you gotta get the data from somewhere... of course different games will require different amounts of data at the start
3) Data caps
I honestly never thought it was. Why aren't PC game sizes this outrageous?
Vire
Member
I wonder if gamestop will start offering download to your system in store services? Or maybe they could release demo discs that include that required initial data.
4 blu rays?
Good question.
FeiRR
Banned
Maybe the cutscenes are prerendered high quality movies? Would be in line with 1080p pixel counting from screenshots.