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NBA 2K21 requires a minimum of 150 GB on PS5
- Thread starter Raigor
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Yet another reason Sony can fuck off with not letting PS5 games be stored on an HDD at launch. Really basic shit
Brutal but deserved. Fuck ads in a full priced game.
I think other publishers care about optimizing their storage size more. I don't think CoD or this are the norm at all.
The current gen version is bigger than most current games but it isn't drastic difference. Big games will definitely be around this size going forward.
Hey look...another nba 2k ad joke. Hadn't seen that recently.
Nba2k is alwaysa big install because they pack a lot of content. No surprise next gen would be bigger.
I wonder what is causing that - the compression Sony has developed/purchased should really prevent games from getting that large. Spider-man: Miles Morales (50gb) is nowhere near that large and it is an open world game with high texture/poly models, even for pedestrians.
"But guys you see, file sizes next gen will be actually smaller since they don't need to put duplicate data in the discs."
Every time I read that I had a good Michael Jordan chuckle.
Every time I read that I had a good Michael Jordan chuckle.
Well, in this case, yesterday the Series X store said around the same thing, so I think it's accurate:
NBA 2K21 is Massive on Xbox Series X, Weighing in at More than 120GB
2K’s next-gen NBA installment, NBA 2K21, is quite massive on Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox Series X with a monstrous 121.GB file size.
wccftech.com
(it's 100GB at the end)
NBA 2K21 On Xbox Series X Is Over 100GB
The 100GB file size for NBA 2K21 might be because the WNBA is being added to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
www.gamespot.com
I guess it can be less than 150GB at the end, to around the same 100GB the Series X version is.
I don't think most games will be that big, even though the games will grow in size. This and CoD were one of the worst offenders last gen and I don't think it's likely the rest of the developers got so bad at compression that all games now will be as big as NBA and CoD.
Why the vitriol?
The OS is clearly coming in Hot because they've gone with a new UI rather than an iteration, just be patient.
Remember when SSDs meant no need to duplicate data and that games would be smaller ?
Yeah. :"""")
Yeah. :"""")
Pretty substantial. We basically went from 20-ish Gb on the top end to Killzone Shadow Fall being twice that.
What's this thing with yearly franchises and huge file sizes. It appears that there is never enough time to optimise assets and thus always have huge sizes.
I guess a lot of the data is made up of player models, specifically the faces? I don't really play sports games, were they always this heavy?
That's big, but in the end all the next gen consoles will get external cold storage available and that'll be it.
With them going for 4k the assets are not going to become smaller anytime soon, even with better compression.
For NBA2k21 I'd imagine the different faces and skins probably consume a lot of texture space. (+ them ads lol)
With them going for 4k the assets are not going to become smaller anytime soon, even with better compression.
For NBA2k21 I'd imagine the different faces and skins probably consume a lot of texture space. (+ them ads lol)
One NBA title that will play the same as every entry for the last decade and change or two whole Spider-Man games... tough call.
So between COD and this game, ALL UR SSD is gone on the XSS. And half your SSD is gone on the PS5.
Really beginning to look like sony had a stupid oversight on not making PS5 games moveable to an external storage for cold storage at launch. Like that shit is flat out essential.
Well at least they are looking into it.
Really beginning to look like sony had a stupid oversight on not making PS5 games moveable to an external storage for cold storage at launch. Like that shit is flat out essential.
Well at least they are looking into it.
This game is smaller on XSX and other games are also smaller on XSS than on XSX so I think we should wait for actual data for that game before jumping to conclusions.
I still think it's true but why bother change the whole game structure for a crossgen title?
We will start to see that on real nextgen titles, hopefully.
The game size might be 120gb but you also need a extra GBs for instal it just like the PS4.
Well, it's true, but everyone forgets that duplicated assets are very small.
So any savings will be outpaced by new assets.
I'm going to wait and see how this plays out a bit. 500GB on the PS4 got almost impossible to use after having a battlefield (100 GB), CoD(100GB), Gran Turismo (100GB) and MLB The Show 16ish (40GB). Having those 4 games, there is no room left for patches or any other games. I get that I don't need 50 games at the ready, but especially how data caps are trending as a normal things recently, but if you can't have 5-7 games at the ready, it makes it really hard to play different games with friends if you are not all playing a single game or two.