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Let me know what your limit is when it comes to file size and if there are exceptions. If there is a significant resource investment (Time for download/installation, Storage Space) then the game should provide time value that justifies keeping it around at that size and the time invested for the download/install.
The gaming market is so saturated nowadays that if a file size limit was implemented, games would just become smaller, rather than developers putting effort and creativity into designing their intended game with less storage.
Just as an example, a retro-styled RPGMaker game's tileset alone could be larger than the entire ROM of a classic RPG they are trying to emulate. Nowadays we see game downloads frequently exceeding the storage capacity of a single Blu-ray disc, often 30, 40, even 50 GB.
- What's Taking Up All The Space?
- Why Are Some Games So Much Bigger Than Others?
- Why Not Just Compress Everything?
Audio contributes a great deal to file size, but it hasn't been the primary contributor to the growth of game sizes in general. The resolution (sample rate) of audio will depend on what sounds the developer is reproducing—Tripwire, for instance, uses 44kHz audio for weapon sounds, and 22kHz audio for speech—but that was already the case back when i...
Game sizes can be confusing. Why, for instance, are The Witcher 3 and Rainbow Six: Siegeboth 50GB despite one being an open world RPG and the other being a multiplayer shooter? Such comparisons indicate that the 'scope' or 'size' of a game, as we perceive it in terms of 'a world' or 'hours of story,' has little bearing on install size. Vast plains ...
That 48GB Titanfall install was 'only' a 21GB download, though, meaning it was heavily compressed. So why don't more games do that? An educated guess: it was only the fact that Titanfall's large install size was mostly audio that made it possible to compress it to 21GB in the first place. It's those pesky textures again. We've established that text...
- Tyler Wilde
Answer. See Results. If you're an avid gamer and find yourself in need of more than 500GB of space for your collection, you'll likely need to purchase additional storage for your device....
May 12, 2023 · According to Steam, the average American downloads games at around 12MB per second. That's over a 3-hour download for current 2023 size champ Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, a definite "whim"...
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Nov 9, 2023 · Do all the latest big budget games require over 100 GB of drive space? What's the average size of a AAA game today? We've investigated the figures...
