• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare's bundles are between 70 and 150 GB
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Woe betide anyone who plays on consoles with small disk spaces - Your Local AAA Dev
I swear to god devs nowadays really don't care about optimisation
[QUOTE=coolgame8013;51304150]Woe betide anyone who plays on consoles with small disk spaces - Your Local AAA Dev[/QUOTE] It's not exactly hard to install a bigger drive in the current gen of consoles. Sony have always been pretty cool with it, just pop off a cover and fit any type of 2.5" drive you damn well please. MS let you plug in any external drive you damn well please and run games right off it. [editline]4th November 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Instant Mix;51304273]I swear to god devs nowadays really don't care about optimisation[/QUOTE] Disk usage hasn't really got anything to do with optimisation though. It's entirely down to the ever increasing scope of games and the allowance of larger resolution texture work and higher polygon models in the newer consoles. Sure they could compress it, but then we'd be back to PS3 tier loading times. I hope you enjoy staring at a loading screen for 4 minutes whilst GoW4 decompresses the intro cutscene.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;51304312]It's not exactly hard to install a bigger drive in the current gen of consoles.[/QUOTE] Reminder that not wanting to fuck around with the insides of their gaming machine or buy any extra parts or anything of that nature aside from peripherals is one of the big draws of consoles
So lets take a median value and go with 100gb. That's literally about 1/10th of a terabyte drive give or take. On my fairly fast for US standards 50 Mb/s connection that'd take around 4-5 hrs. However, With what most people have... [T]http://i.imgur.com/Hf7b2GG.png[/t]
[QUOTE=gk99;51304812]Reminder that not wanting to fuck around with the insides of their gaming machine or buy any extra parts or anything of that nature aside from peripherals is one of the big draws of consoles[/QUOTE] Buy an external one and plug it in then? I'd hope the PS4 supports that seeing as the XBOne does. It'll be a fair bit slower. But it's idiot proof at least. Expanding storage is hardly an argument against consoles anyway considering you have the same problems on PC every now and then. [editline]4th November 2016[/editline] Sneaky peripherals bit appeared as I quoted. Still not really an issue. Games are going to get bigger as the consumer expects more, and discs can only get so big. People begrudgingly bought memory cards two generations and more ago. This isn't that much different. Just a bit more costly than an 8MB memory card.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;51304824]Expanding storage is hardly an argument against consoles anyway considering you have the same problems on PC every now and then.[/QUOTE] when has storage ever been an issue for PC when I can buy a ton of #TB HDD's for cheap and also have them inside the computer if you [I]have [/I]to go external then there is already kind of a problem. Lets not forget the increased load times too. like I'm fully not surprised games are getting bigger and bigger but 150 gb's for a shooter is absolutely fucked. Witcher 3 literally only takes 40 gb's and looks like one of the best games of the decade, so what is the excuse here? [editline]3rd November 2016[/editline] Like anyone should expect games to eventually be 150gb on average on that same note some of the biggest games of the year are 1/3rd that Hell dark souls 3 is only 20 gb. MGS5 is 28.6 gb HOW is it even possible for Inf War to be a minimum of 70gb? I'll tell you how... the devs didn't have time to care. it's 70gb because they weren't given the time to care.
[QUOTE=TheMrFailz;51304820]So lets take a median value and go with 100gb. That's literally about 1/10th of a terabyte drive give or take. On my fairly fast for US standards 50 Mb/s connection that'd take around 4-5 hrs. However, With what most people have... [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Hf7b2GG.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] jesus man, thumbnail that.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;51304824]Buy an external one and plug it in then? I'd hope the PS4 supports that seeing as the XBOne does. It'll be a fair bit slower. But it's idiot proof at least. Expanding storage is hardly an argument against consoles anyway considering you have the same problems on PC every now and then. [editline]4th November 2016[/editline] Sneaky peripherals bit appeared as I quoted. Still not really an issue. Games are going to get bigger as the consumer expects more, and discs can only get so big. People begrudgingly bought memory cards two generations and more ago. This isn't that much different. Just a bit more costly than an 8MB memory card.[/QUOTE] Except memory cards were for saves generally and werent expected to be stuffed full by a handful of games. I have like 6 games for ps4 and that poor things drive can't have them all installed. Sorry about the big pic. I keep forgetting phones have like ultra hd (read:large pixel size) screens that scale awful to monitors now.
[QUOTE=TheMrFailz;51304851]Except memory cards were for saves generally and werent expected to be stuffed full by a handful of games. I have like 6 games for ps4 and that poor things drive can't have them all installed.[/QUOTE] Memory cards held jack shit in general. You could fill a ps2 8mb card with only a few custom parks in the Tony hawks games. You had to buy them if you had anything resembling a catalogue of games. And they were pretty much required. Sure the console hdds are pulling double time as the primary media and save store. And it'd be nice if they shipped with bigger drives. But having to sometimes expand that storage really isn't that bad a thing. At least any old SATA drive will work rather than proprietary bullshit like those vita memory cards. [editline]4th November 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=J!NX;51304839]when has storage ever been an issue for PC when I can buy a ton of #TB HDD's for cheap and also have them inside the computer if you [I]have [/I]to go external then there is already kind of a problem. Lets not forget the increased load times too. like I'm fully not surprised games are getting bigger and bigger but 150 gb's for a shooter is absolutely fucked. Witcher 3 literally only takes 40 gb's and looks like one of the best games of the decade, so what is the excuse here? [editline]3rd November 2016[/editline] Like anyone should expect games to eventually be 150gb on average on that same note some of the biggest games of the year are 1/3rd that Hell dark souls 3 is only 20 gb. MGS5 is 28.6 gb HOW is it even possible for Inf War to be a minimum of 70gb? I'll tell you how... the devs didn't have time to care. it's 70gb because they weren't given the time to care.[/QUOTE] I do wonder where the 100gb or so of... Something? Is coming from. Are there really that many unique Assets? Did they really go overboard with texture sizes? I honestly doubt the game has enough levels to make that size up? Unless the bundles they've spotted also include MW: Revengance Turbo Extreme Edition. As that would make two games in one bundle.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;51304864]I do wonder where the 100gb or so of... Something?[/QUOTE] My guess is a bulk of it is uncompressed audio. Titanfall 1 had like 40GB of uncompressed audio and it was just a multiplayer shooter with no single player.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;51304864]I do wonder where the 100gb or so of... Something? Is coming from. Are there really that many unique Assets? Did they really go overboard with texture sizes? I honestly doubt the game has enough levels to make that size up? Unless the bundles they've spotted also include MW: Revengance Turbo Extreme Edition. As that would make two games in one bundle.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Cmx;51304931]My guess is a bulk of it is uncompressed audio. Titanfall 1 had like 40GB of uncompressed audio and it was just a multiplayer shooter with no single player.[/QUOTE] Guys we all know its because infinity warfare is using an engine capable of uncompressed high quality pixels, of a higher quality before seen. [video=youtube;7IRil_R5sEI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IRil_R5sEI[/video]
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