'Red Dead Redemption 2' File Size Requires Over 100 GB

[Dylanc1500]

Time for HVD to come to fruition. Then we can have physical media again, plus huge games without worrying about download times.

[Dante Sol]

With 4k Textures and other things I can see it easily. If this is just the 1080p version then I wonder how big the 4k version will be.

[EPENEX]

It better be a damn good game at that size. My PS4 only has a 500GB HDD.

[imreloadin]

20 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

Whats your reasoning?

 

The more data means more data that can contain bugs.

It's called sarcasm...obviously it means you'll need a 50GB day one patch just to launch the game

[Brooksie359]

1 hour ago, FastRDust said:

Unless you don't have that kind of connection XD.

 

It's usually not the people who don't have big datalines that are having issues and most of the time it's not even their fault because providers do not "provide' enough bandwith to those places.

 

If they have 10 MBPS it would take 1 Day 1 Hour 3 Minutes to download the game.

Not to mention how long it will take to install on the ps4 XD

Is there no option of getting a hard copy that installs from that? I mean 105gb is alot is idk how many disks that would take but I would think that would solve alot of the issues for console gamers. I doubt they would ever do that for pc though. 

[Drak3]

30 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

With that many gigabytes it better work day one with no patches...

Yeah no this is actually the day one patch. The actual game is only 32KB.

[JBowmanVC]

Welcome to 4K Resolution Gaming, #FirstWorldProblems

[Fasauceome]

37 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

Whats your reasoning?

 

The more data means more data that can contain bugs.

It's something that's owed more than expected. They better not screw up my at least one day long download when I have to launch the game

[Bananasplit_00]

22 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

Is there no option of getting a hard copy that installs from that? I mean 105gb is alot is idk how many disks that would take but I would think that would solve alot of the issues for console gamers. I doubt they would ever do that for pc though. 

It would take 5 blue Ray disks

[Brooksie359]

6 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

It would take 5 blue Ray disks

Well I guess they will need a big case for all those disks. 

[mynameisjuan]

27 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

It's something that's owed more than expected. They better not screw up my at least one day long download when I have to launch the game

Its unreasonable to expect zero issues on a game that large. 

[Fasauceome]

2 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

Its unreasonable to expect zero issues on a game that large. 

Yes I know

[TVwazhere]

2 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

jesus bandwidth-hogging christ O_O

Stop breaking things  

[Stefan Payne]

2 hours ago, DaPhuc said:

and holy shit games these days are about to take more than 100GB.

Well I don't have too many of those...

From the last games I got, most of them are just around 50GB or so, that includes but is not limited to Spider-Man, God of War, Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PS4), Dragon Quest XI...

 

Seems like Texture Compression isn't "in" anymore these days...

[Stefan Payne]

27 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

It would take 5 blue Ray disks

Hä??
No, a BD can easily fit 50GB, wich is the Standard today.

 

But there also seem to be 100GB Discs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray#BDXL

 

But I do not know if the Console Drives are compatible with that. I'd say they are not. So 2 Discs, maybe 3.

[ItsMitch]

2 hours ago, Misanthrope said:

Come on, do you really need 100gb for dozens of square miles of fucking desert? 

they gotta prepare EMPTY SPACE for HORSE and SHACK DLC 

[vanished]

GTA IV was ~15 GB iirc, and GTA V was like 65 GB.  It's not at all surprising we're up to this size by now and I'm not too concerned about the size.  It's not like you're going to need to keep 10+ games of this size installed at all times.  Personally I'm more interested in just seeing it exist this time.  I kept hearing about the last one but it never materialized.  Let's hope this isn't a repeat...

[Levent]

Just now, VegetableStu said:

actually hold up, how much of it are model asset files? I imagine all the textures and shader maps (and possibly prerendered cutscenes?) might contribute a lot... ._.

I would assume atleast half, this game probably has a lot of sound assets too.

[IAmAndre]

3 hours ago, Bouzoo said:

Honestly, I don't see a problem with this, as long as it's actually meaningful amount of good content and not just bad compression of audio and video files, e.g. cutscenes. Let's talk open world, 4K textures, ridiculous amount of objects, etc etc, where is the problem? I don't blame devs not going cheap just because it will take some time to download. I'm sorry 'straya but this one is on your government and companies. 

We are getting much faster connections in general and storage is becoming very, very cheap, so why should content not increase, again, as long as it's justified?

I wouldn't consider it a problem if the game was released on PC (although that's a little selfish). The real problem is most people buy a regular PS4 with a 500GB hard drive, and if game sizes keep increasing you'll basically need one hard drive per game. I guess the DLC's will take up more space.

[IAmAndre]

50 minutes ago, Stefan Payne said:

Hä??
No, a BD can easily fit 50GB, wich is the Standard today.

 

But there also seem to be 100GB Discs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray#BDXL

 

But I do not know if the Console Drives are compatible with that. I'd say they are not. So 2 Discs, maybe 3.

I really wouldn't mind having the game split across multiple discs.

[Bouzoo]

5 minutes ago, IAmAndre said:

I wouldn't consider it a problem if the game was released on PC (although that's a little selfish). The real problem is most people buy a regular PS4 with a 500GB hard drive, and if game sizes keep increasing you'll basically need one hard drive per game. I guess the DLC's will take up more space.

That is not really a good argument. Hell 1TB PS4 that I have was not that much more than 500 GB, and you can even buy 8TB external drives (ex-coworker has one). Best to not increase sizes because people bought the smallest version. It's like saying no game should use any decent size since we have 120GB SSDs and yes, there are people with only those in the system. 

I used to have 8.5GB MGS2 on my only 40 GB drive 15+ years ago. I managed. It's not impossible. 

[IAmAndre]

6 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

That is not really a good argument. Hell 1TB PS4 that I have was not that much more than 500 GB, and you can even buy 8TB external drives (ex-coworker has one). Best to not increase sizes because people bought the smallest version. It's like saying no game should use any decent size since we have 120GB SSDs and yes, there are people with only those in the system. 

I used to have 8.5GB MGS2 on my only 40 GB drive 15+ years ago. I managed. It's not impossible. 

We're talking about consoles so it's a mainstream audience who are less likely to invest that much on storage. When I think of myself 10-15 years ago getting new games only for my birthday and for Christmas, it would have been hard to ask my parents for extra storage.

[suicidalfranco]

member when games fitted in physical media and you didn't have to download three times the size of what was inside that unit to be able to play?

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[Bananasplit_00]

1 hour ago, Stefan Payne said:

Hä??
No, a BD can easily fit 50GB, wich is the Standard today.

 

But there also seem to be 100GB Discs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray#BDXL

 

But I do not know if the Console Drives are compatible with that. I'd say they are not. So 2 Discs, maybe 3.

Well I only did a quick Google and that told me that blueray disks were 25gb, was unaware there were bigger ones thanks for the info

[Dissitesuxba11s]

Just released. You guys be the judge if it's worth 100GB (plus patches and DLC).