First first-party Xbox One games going to take up 35 GB to 47 GB of your hard disc for the required

[Darth-Veger]

[QUOTE=Saxon;42685028]I'm not surprised, its one of the drawbacks to bluray.

People had to install games with a super small hard drive on the ps3 launch and were fine, they'll survive.[/QUOTE]

Another thing i love about the PS4, its second processor.

[QUOTE]If users prefer to play their game directly from disc, PS4 will install data to the hard drive during play, eliminating loading times. This is accomplished via the system's secondary processor.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4#PlayGo[/url]

[Killuah]

Are Xbone games not compressed anymore?

[H11]

[QUOTE=Killuah;42685361]Are Xbone games not compressed anymore?[/QUOTE]

So have you just not read the thread or what

[Deunan]

[QUOTE=lavacano;42678937]I'm chalking it up to incompetence, myself.

My Fallout NV installation. Heavily modded (with new models, voiced NPCs, the works), tons of 7z and install files still left over, many even from multiple versions of the same mod. All DLCs, even a BSA or two from Fallout 3 because I was working on a mod that brought some content in (before TTW became a thing). Doesn't even hit 20 GB. Why the fuck are these vanilla games encroaching on 50 GB?[/QUOTE]

My best guess? Texture size, lightmap size. Those two things will create absolutely massive increases overall.

Hell just take this into consideration - let's say the average world texture is 512x512 currently. If you increase everything to 1024x1024 or even 2048 you start getting increases in the realms of a few megs per texture. And there can be thousands of textures.

And that's just one of the things. Factor in higher fidelity meshes, lightmaps, probably richer sound...

Just consider games like UT99 - to games a generation after it. You basically went from games that were up to 600 megs to games that were 3-4 gigs incredibly quickly. Or compare the sizes of HL1 and HL2

[Sableye]

introducing the Xbox one-terrabyt!

[editline]29th October 2013[/editline]

but seriously I was just pricing PC HDDs and a 1-tb harddrive isn't that expensive any more

[Demache]

[QUOTE=Sableye;42686171]introducing the Xbox one-terrabyt!

[editline]29th October 2013[/editline]

but seriously I was just pricing PC HDDs and a 1-tb harddrive isn't that expensive any more[/QUOTE]

Seriously. My 1 TB WD Black wasn't expensive when I bought it 3 years ago (I think like $90-100?). The only time they were expensive recently was when their was that tsunami that hurt HDD production 2 years ago causing prices to double instantly.

[CoolKingKaso]

I remember that launch console games require huge amounts of space. It shrinks down afterwards.

Pikmin (2001) required 19 blocks, which was extremely large if you've bought the 50 block memory card. Mario Strikers (2005) required 5 blocks, which was extremely small if you've bought the standard one.