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Knack PS4 install: 37gb's!
- Thread starter netguy503
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Shitty internet connections and ISP download limits...
Shadowfall is 39GB.According to this twitter page:
https://twitter.com/JoshLMusic/status/394220033582174208/photo/1
At least it's 20 ish gb's less than Shadowfall...I guess.
And we should find out AC4's install size with reviews hitting tomorrow right?
Chinpoko_Master
Member
Internet speeds will get faster too. Bandwidth caps though... yeah, you're fucked.
those ports have more than one quality texture though, they usually have one for each setting.
Sapphire Dreams
Member
Eh, I'll just upgrade my internet speed. We don't have bandwidth caps where I live.
Pimpbaa
Member
This has been a pattern since the beginning of gaming. Games increase in size as hardware gets more powerful.
I guess I wasn't expecting an 8-10 hour single-player-only game to be 40GBs. Silly me.
VERY good point. After all, most 1080p-supported PC games are 30+GB...right?
UnluckyKate
Member
is it install size for PSN version ? total size I mean.
NinjamicWZ
Banned
Some of you guys should buy very large games on physical media.
Look at PS1 to PS2 and PS2 to PS3. This is the standard as technology advances and assets are allowed to have more detail. And Knack has a co-op mode. Next.
You play as you download anyway, it's not like you're going to have to wait until you've downloaded the entire file. Unless if your internet connection is dodgy as hell then it shouldn't be too annoying.
Nice. Game is sounding more and more like a playable Pixar movie or something.
Marvel
could never
Wow, nice.
GANGSTERKILLER
Member
Native 1080p guys. It takes space! 
Majmun
Member
Are PC versions of multiplatform games much bigger in size?
I'm paying $105 for this right now. Doesn't even include cable. I think the need for faster internet is going to increase a lot in the next coming years.
Majority of PS3 games last gen were <8GB, due to 360's size restrictions.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
Er, most PS3 games weren't going past 5-6 gigs at launch.
Hey, you are insulting my 2 meg line here, which is throttled right now to 512Kb because I exceeded my 30Gb limit
Fortunately, HDD sizes will only increase and the prices will drop as time goes by. Just three years ago, the largest SATA HDD was a mere 750GB. And it cost $240, which was considered a steal.
Majmun
Member
FFXV is probably going to be 300GB
SomedayTheFire
Member
You weren't? Did you miss Metal Gear Solid Revengence? 18.5gb, naturally games are going to get bigger, much bigger. Max Payne on PC being absolutely massive already reinforces my point.
Compared to the PS2 standard it was a jump. That's the point.
Chinpoko_Master
Member
Maybe we'll see a return to the glory days of FF where each game was 3-4 discs.
So buy the disc, problem solved.
Hahaha, wouldn't that be something.
Fornaximus
Member
The internet isn't ready for a DD future of this magnitude. Google Fiber plz.
TheRealTalker
Banned
Knack being a graphical beast confirmed
At the same time, much of the 'texture' work in Super Mario 3D World is really just shaded polygons, the music is usually MIDI-like (instead of lightly or uncompressed multichannel audio) and there isn't much in the way of cutscene video. Nintendo's art style isn't as texture heavy as that of other developers, so there just aren't as many giant assets in Nintendo (first party) games as there are in others.
Personally, I'm fine with the larger disk/game sizes. Why create next-gen hardware that can push huge textures around, and then constrain everything with small, heavily compressed textures to save space? Why create cutscenes on 1080p, Blu-Ray enabled hardware, but compress the hell out of them to save space? I say use that space, dammit!
Neuromancer
Member
Me too. It's very reassuring, in a way. I'll be buying all my games on disc when possible, with a few possible exceptions (like insane sales).
Megatron
Member
None of this matters to me as I won't be buying most retail games digitally. It's a feature I value with a portable system so I don't have to carry my games around with me, but at home, there's no real advantage to digital. Not having to get up and put a disk in the system is not an advantage to me. I'm not that lazy. I guess eventually when/if PSPlus starts offering retail PS4 games, then I might have to consider a larger harddrive, like I did with my PS3, but by that point they'll be that much cheaper. For my PS3 I just put in a 500 gig drive from a laptop that broke.