Red Dead Redemption 2 requires 150GB of free space on PS4

#5598364

tsunami231

2018-10-20 02:22

i cry for the people that got digital and have a connections slower then 50mbit

#5598407

anxious_f0x

2018-10-20 06:50

schmidtbag:

To me, the size of the game isn't the problem. My personal gripe is how you have to basically use up the same amount of disk space regardless of whether you do a digital DL or use the Blu Ray. And I'm sure that if you get the disc, you're going to have to keep it in the console in order to play the game. As far as I'm concerned, if you're required to have a disc, you might as well use it to free up as much space on the internal storage as possible. In doing so, you'd shave off a lot of time in prepping the game before being able to play it, you'd save a lot of disk space, and (if done properly) it'll actually improve load times, since the game can read from 2 different data sources simultaneously. The vast majority of the game's data is stuff that won't be replaced by updates, so a lot of that could be loaded on the disc. Maybe some resources (like high-res textures) would be best stored on the internal storage, since loading that from a disc would take too long. But whatever. Not my problem - the last consoles I owned were a Sega Genesis and Gameboy Color.

Current consoles don’t actually read any data from the disc as you play these days because the read speeds on the Blu Ray optical drives are terrible, they just install the content straight off the disc and then use the disc to authenticate the install when you play the game. Download size doesn’t bother me so much as I have a 4TB external drive on my PS4 and decent fibre connection, I do have friends with slow internet that are really going to have a rough time with this however.

#5598443

Astyanax

2018-10-20 10:15

No, its just laziness.

#5598450

Loobyluggs

2018-10-20 10:58

$100 for a 1TB SSD, I (personally) do not have a problem with the whole 'storage' argument. This is, of course, if you have a PS4 - which Sony made very very very very very very easy to upgrade/change the provided HDD with one that rocks the casbah.

#5598517

boodikon

2018-10-20 16:04

Game comes on 2 discs, no swapping hopefully 🙂

#5598527

scatman839

2018-10-20 16:41

one play disc one install disc you won't need to swap, same as gta5 on xbox 360

#5598531

schmidtbag

2018-10-20 16:50

anxious_f0x:

Current consoles don’t actually read any data from the disc as you play these days because the read speeds on the Blu Ray optical drives are terrible, they just install the content straight off the disc and then use the disc to authenticate the install when you play the game. Download size doesn’t bother me so much as I have a 4TB external drive on my PS4 and decent fibre connection, I do have friends with slow internet that are really going to have a rough time with this however.

But that's exactly my point - there are plenty of things that could be loaded from the disc without negatively affecting performance. This would primarily be audio or pre-recorded cutscenes, but those take up a lot of space. Also, if the game has any loading screens, why not just store the data loaded from the loading screen from the disc and just highly compress it? An 8-core CPU could decompress data from a BD-ROM faster than reading raw data from a mechanical HDD.

#5598532

boodikon

2018-10-20 16:52

scatman839:

one play disc one install disc you won't need to swap, same as gta5 on xbox 360

I was being ironic 🙂

#5598638

XP-200

2018-10-21 01:26

Glottiz:

What? I get same exact download speed from Steam and from Xbox/MS Store.

Same here, only console that won't give me the full 34 meg over my fibre is the pro, wired or wireless, no matter what i try it simply will not give me my full 35 meg speed but rather fluctuates between 17 meg and 26 meg, and that is over wired, the same wire that i get 34 meg with consistently on the PC and XBX and my tv, so there is certainly something going on with Sony's psn and their dl speeds and i can't fathom out what or why, even the speed check keeps showing different speeds everytime you test it....not a big deal though as i don't buy anything digitally on the pro anyway, but it's certainly is weird issue that i don't seem to be able to affect.

#5598664

anxious_f0x

2018-10-21 04:56

bulldog75:

Erm,If you do not play on console for decades,how come you now own a PS4 with 4TB external drive then. Maybe your "Interals"(brain)needs to have good wabble..??

Maybe if you actually read the thread correctly you’d notice that it was in fact someone I quoted that said they hadn’t had a console for decades...

#5598812

bulldog75

2018-10-21 21:28

anxious_f0x:

Maybe if you actually read the thread correctly you’d notice that it was in fact someone I quoted that said they hadn’t had a console for decades...

Fair enough. I shall procede with deletion of that post Bro.

#5598873

GamerNerves

2018-10-22 01:25

I want a physical PC release with bluray discs.

#5598987

scatman839

2018-10-22 13:45

that'd never happen, think not a single game has released on bluray for pc

#5598993

vbetts

Moderator

2018-10-22 15:07

I feel bad for folks that don't have the fastest connection, but at least they aren't putting half the game on the disk and half the game you have to download as a day one patch for physical release.

#5599040

XP-200

2018-10-22 17:20

^^^^ Never rub another mans rhubarb........no, wrong saying.......i mean Never buy at launch and Never pre order......these two things should be the norm until the cesspit that is today's gaming industry learns that they are there for the consumer, and not the other way round. 😉

#5599240

Dragam1337

2018-10-23 10:49

Meh, it's the same size Final fantasy XV is...

#5599358

anxious_f0x

2018-10-23 17:37

Pre download is already available for people who pre ordered, total install size on PS4 is 92.76GB. So fairly large, but the pre download was up nice and early so most should have it downloaded by Friday if they pre ordered.