On PC, the game is 139.84 GB. On console, it’s 100.19 GB for Standard or 117.07 GB for the Premium Edition
I remember when Titanfall being 50gb sparked an outrage, it’s a good thing SSDs are cheap now.
I picked up a 1TB NVMe for literally $38 this week. Absolutely absurd how inexpensive SSDs are right now.
Be careful, most cheap NVMe drives have low endurance. Llike, not “Oh, you’re just hand wringing about nothing,” endurance ratings but an actually and relevantly low number of terabytes that can be written before the drive becomes failure-prone. They also usually lack a DRAM cache, so certain operations can be as slow as a mechanical hard drive, thereby negating the major advantage of opting for solid-state storage.
They were all that price unless I went up to PCIe 4.0, which my laptop doesn’t support. I got a well-known brand. But thanks for the heads up!
If you’re running a database server or something with lots of writing and data you don’t want to lose, I can see the concern.
But a drive for gaming is the best possible use case for a lower endurance drive. Even a poor drive can write the whole thing 200 times. I doubt many people would even get close to that.
This could be a problem for console players though, especially those with a Series S which can’t run new games off an external.
Not if you have a PS5. I just added a $99 2TB Samsung 980 Pro to mine. Microsoft really shafted Xbox owners with their Seagate partnershit.
Don’t worry, you can buy a Starfield themed external drive that can’t actually run Starfield:
Oh yeah, let’s create 250GB SSD cartridges per game because thry each cost about 26€
You know how ridiculous that sounds, right?
I mean if you really wanna maximize your spending you can get 150 1gb flash drives and trick the OS to thinking its one device.
Or like just gets bigger drive that’s cheaper per GB like someone with a brain.
And like how would cartridge games work anyways? most PCs have really limited sata slots
Time for another SSD
We have gone from cartridges, to CDs, to kind-of cartridges.
We have kinda gone full circle! Now we need something lile a holocron or like a Cortana AI chip to store an even bigger amount.
clickbait is stupid. It’s 125GB.
When I got the Series X I thought “oh good, I won’t have to juggle my games now that I have so much space.”
Dammit.
So it’s about the size of Baldur’s Gate 3… Better have just as much content!
What a weird take.
You can just play a game for fun you know.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Baldur’s Gate 3 has a download size of 97.4 GB and an install size of 121.47 GB.
Comparing to Terraria is stupid, Terraria doesn’t have the same quantity of graphical and audio assets.
