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Wolfenstein II is 21.8GB on Switch
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fairly old news but I guess nobody made a thread last time?
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/20..._its_much_bigger_than_we_were_originally_told
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/20..._its_much_bigger_than_we_were_originally_told
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If you click view all it states you need 23 gb free. Which is also mentioned in the article. Good thing SD carts are not that expensive these days.
So I have a pretty weird and, I hope, not too dumb question:
I preordered the uncut game (on card) from amazon.uk as the german (and therefor austrian) version is a censored mess (thanks, germany btw..).
Now there's a whole lot of data which needs to be additionally downloaded.
could this cause a problem? I mean, the game I will recieve is the british uncensored wolfenstein and , I assume, living in austria the additional data will be downloaded from german servers. what if that data is actually full of censored stuff?
could a mix between uncut game and censored downloadable data cause something to get "screwed up"?
I preordered the uncut game (on card) from amazon.uk as the german (and therefor austrian) version is a censored mess (thanks, germany btw..).
Now there's a whole lot of data which needs to be additionally downloaded.
could this cause a problem? I mean, the game I will recieve is the british uncensored wolfenstein and , I assume, living in austria the additional data will be downloaded from german servers. what if that data is actually full of censored stuff?
could a mix between uncut game and censored downloadable data cause something to get "screwed up"?
Since the SKU is non-censored version I'm pretty sure that it'll be downloaded as non-censored version.
I believe the card will download whatever region the card is from, which in this case in the un-cut version. Since I don't believe the game actually ask about what account you are going to play with (which is associated with the region) until you actually are able to boot it up. But I don't think that would matter anyways.
If it keeps costs down, I'm all for it. Not ideal, but the alternative is the game is pricier or just not on the system. At least there's a mechanism to make the thing work.
Tell me about it. Like every other game which needs day 1 patch before you can play it.
Be lucky you didn't have DOOM on PS4 where you needed LOTS of hard drive space for the download of mostly multiplayer-related updates. This is nothing PS4 and XB1 owners aren't used to.
Does it even keep the costs down? If you buy these games, you are encouraging pubs to gut their games even more.
welp, thanx for the answers. I hope nothing gets fucked up.
will report back when I have it. hopefully this weekend or monday next week
I think the larger "SD cards" they would have to use for the physical version are more expensive, which is why developers are opting for a portion of the game on the smaller capacity physical media, the rest on the Switch (or its installed SD card).
As someone who's digital only, these large downloads are a bit tricky, even with a 200GB card. At least, if I want to have instant access to everything at all times, which is the whole appeal of digital. At some point I may have to archive a few large games I don't play often. Thankfully, some of Nintendo's more recent titles have been quite compact (Aces, Toad), although I wonder how Smash will be.
How many games need a patch to play them? I cant think of any recently
Random question for Switch enthusiasts(It's semi-relevant to topic a bit but not worth it's own topic.)
If I have a large library, can I have multiple SD cards for one Switch that I can swap out between to be able to access different games stored on different cards or would I need 1 giant card?
If I have a large library, can I have multiple SD cards for one Switch that I can swap out between to be able to access different games stored on different cards or would I need 1 giant card?
But are the savings really passed onto you? Or are you just paying the same price plus the price of lost microSD storage for a gimped game so that the pub can save a fraction of the manufacturing cost, an insignificant sum for the entire costs including shipping, distribution and marketing?
Worse still, could pubs be using this as a DRM measure, with the potential of making games obsolete in the future? What if at some point in the future you can't download the missing chunk of data anymore?
According to someone on reddit that got the game early, the cartridge contain 2 missions. The remainder of the game is downloaded in a patch.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/8u6z2x/wolfensten_ii_and_crash_early_impression/
https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/8u6z2x/wolfensten_ii_and_crash_early_impression/
Yep and yep. Was excited to get my nephew Battlefront II... put the disc in the PS4 and... what's this? Maybe 3 small levels to play while the game downloads. Fantastic.
There will be dynamic resolution that will go quite low sometimes.
There will be framerate drops.
Textures will be less good.
And a lot of people will go "yikes" even if it is decently downgraded port running on a less capable hardware.
How big was Smash 4 Wii U with all DLC?
I can't imagine Ultimate will be less than 20 GB when even Brawl was ~8 GB.
Are you sure that was just installing the game? The day 1 patch for Battlefront 2 on PS4 was just like 141MB or so if i'm not mistaken. Day 1 patches are also usually also completely optional for offline play. Patching for online games are common.
If something goes wrong , just change the region of your account to another EU country and download the patch again. After that, you can change your region back to Austria.
The fuck are you talkng about?
99% of games don't need a patch to play and complete.
From what I can tell, the prices are staying where they are because the smaller cards are being used. I'm guessing the price would go up at least $10 or $20 if larger capacity media were the norm.
As to the DRM, that's a larger issue with all digital media. It's an eShop issue top to bottom, for all platforms. I'm not sure I have a good answer to that.
At the same time, many Switch ports of WiiU games have been smaller in data size.
The game had all the trailers right? That might be a significant space there to save.
I really hope Nintendo does the right thing and ships the full game on the cart.
Those who have played it have said it is shaping up to be a competent port, albeit, at 30fps instead of the originally intended 60fps for other platforms. Which begs the question, is this still an issue? Or has the collective switch fan base acclimatized to the 30fps reality of AAA 3rd party switch ports.
((Scratches head)) You know what... I think that was part of it now that you mention it, but this was after release and there was some multiple gig download needed, but you're right, part of it was definitely the install.
Edit: Frankly, my nephew disappeared immediately with it and by the time I sat down at the TV, everything was underway, so he could have been downloading stuff that was unnecessary too. Who knows. Little buggers are too quick, hehe.
mmh..are u sure that works? I can change region to usa, asia and australia but I don't think I can change to a different european country
Baseless Prediction: It should be coming around 2019 Holiday, and we would expect developers to start putting it onto those cartridges in the beginning of 2020.
I said Europe in case that you still have balance in your account but if you can switch it to US or something like that, it should work just as well.
Ah yeah, if you got the game a while after launch, it probably had a bigger patch, indeed. Those can take some time to download, that is true. I mostly just wanted to comment to say that the full game is on the disc, but it requires update patches to be played online :)
Well then I hope more developers use them then. Too many games seem to have the "download the other half". Which sort of defeats having it physical.
I mean the only real alternative is not having the game on Switch at all, which doesn't seem like a preferable solution.
Of course they will lol
If they run into space problems they first thing they'll do is to remove the trailers as you said. They'll manage to fit it into a 16 GB cart. And if not, I feel like Smash is a game in where they'd have no issue using a 32 GB cart, as it will never drop in price.
O rly?
Recent example GOW
" in case you have a retail disc, you will be required to download approximately 7.4 GB of patch data before you can start the game."
http://gearnuke.com/god-of-war-ps4-update-1-10-patch-notes/
U can have a game with a lot less textures occupying a lot less size and looking a lot less prettier and outrage over how last gen it looks or u can have a game that looks like the ones on other platforms. All AAA games on pc Xbox PS4 games r big in size and here either people will make threads on how third parties ignore the switch and when they come they'll make threads on how huge the game is and complain.