The more and more I learn about GTA 6 the less and less I want to play it.
I do hope it is fun for those who want to play it, this is no longer my cup of tea.
Grand Theft Auto 6 Download Size Revealed To Be 210 GB
Submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@no.lastname.nz to gaming@lemmy.zip
https://insider-gaming.com/gta-6-install-size-revealed-210-gb/
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the16bitgamer@programming.dev 16 hours ago
jeff@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
I’m not buying it and most of my existing games are 40gb or smaller. Many of my games are actually under 20gb
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
okay 👍🏻
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 day ago A “news” telling people the download-size of some game…wow. And it’s slightly bigger than other AAA. Astonishing.
Download-siizes rose for the last 3 decades, who would have ever expected that…
Yggnar@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
When you consider the fact that Rockstar has made it clear they aren’t putting this out on a disc, and the PlayStation hard drive can be as little as 1TB, this is definitely news worth discussing. They’re asking for one fourth of your entire storage space if you’re a PlayStation player.
- Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
And you think they give a rat’s ass about your Playstation-storage? :-) People will buy it, even if it needs a playstation for itself. Or came with a playstation bundled. Which only allowed GTA6 on it but costs triple. It would still sell like crazy. At least you now know why they CAN’T put it onto a disc, even if they wanted to :)
So. Will you buy it? if yes, then what are you even talking about? If no, then welcome to the boat, where is the actual problem? When I will maybe buy this in 3-7yrs, i would not care for the 0,2tb it wants anymore. I would not care today, but that’s not really the point.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Yeah but until recently that tracked the decreasing cost of storage, so you might think devs would be prioritizing lower filesizes now
glimse@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Can’t believe I’m defending Rockstar here but…
…it’s been in development for over a decade. How would they have planned around this recent surge in prices
- Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
Compared to the 3000,- a 20MB drive cost said decades ago, storage is cheap 😁 But you say that as if the big studios care about such things. People will pay full price (or probably higher) anyway. Even if it’d be 1TB download.
CompGenius@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I know this may sound ignorant to modern game development, but do we optimize anymore? I know storage is not an issue most developers worry about these days, but God.
I don’t like to play the old card, because I’m by no means “old”, but I remember when I wanted to install a game, I had to choose what I needed to uninstall first. A game being 500MB to 1GB was mind boggling.
boonhet@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
They throw in massive poly count models with high resolution textures and ever bigger game worlds, then (on PC) let you scale down the quality.
Only real solution is having high res textures as a separate download which some games do but if the console can handle them anyway, there’s less reason, compared to PC where you might have a lower end graphics card that can’t handle 4K textures anyway
filcuk@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
On consoles, developers still duplicate assets for HDD optimization (faster loading, more storage). Often they don’t bother to ‘fix’ that for PC when ported.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
The PS5 was supposed to have fixed that duplication issue with it’s SSD and how data from it is retrieved and cached
boonhet@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Current gen consoles have NVMe thankfully so that bullshit is now obsolete at least
FridaVanMercury@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago Given prices of hardware these days devs should definitely be better at this.
tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Jbfc
mercano@lemmy.world 1 day ago If the download is 210 GB, I hate to think what the install size will be after everything is unzipped.
Seralth@piefed.seralth.com 19 hours ago Likely around 280-300 gigs. Most games don’t unpack their files nowadays. They decompress them on the fly.
So the install size tends to not be that much bigger then the download.
Even still that’s like a third of a ps5s storage iirc
If they unpack things more for the pc release tho… It could readily balloon to almost a terabyte if they wanted to be assholes.
M137@lemmy.today 11 hours ago than*
That’s about a third of a base PS5’s drive.
Technically it’s 850GB, but only around 650 is usable, as shown in the console’s storage settings.
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
why is their shovelware os 200ish gb