Games have become more beautiful, they have a more expansive and detailed world. This significantly increases the capacity on your drives and increases the time it takes to boot. Luckily, thanks to an SSD, you no longer have to run to the bathroom to make coffee when starting up a game. An SSD significantly speeds up not only the launch of games, but also their installation. We’ve covered these benefits in detail on our sister site Techfeed. Today we will look at demanding games that require an SSD.
Today, the size of a single game usually exceeds 100 GB, whether we are talking about PC, PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S. But it’s interesting to look at one thing. They have games this year 80 GB average, whereas in 2012 it was 11 GB. Thus, we are talking about an increase of 6.3 GB per year.
If this already seems a bit much to you, then there are games that deviate from some standards. Couple reigns here ARK: Survival Development And Destiny 2 with all additional packages. In the first case, we are talking about a size of more than 250 GB due to compressed files. In the second – more than 233 GB. The first game no longer exists and has been replaced by a more modern remake, but with Destiny 2, players should expect a further increase due to upcoming new content.
The news this year isn’t much better, RPG girl. Baldur’s Gate 3, Star field And Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. The first has 150 GB, the second has about 140 GB, and the third even has 160 GB. The first two are expected to continue to grow as updates are released and will contain additional content.
The size of the above headings is quite understandable given the length and content. But where it can get frustrating is in much shorter games. Would you say that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor do you need 155 GB? After all, this is a story game for 20 hours (with side quests for 50 hours). Or The Last of Us Part 1, which saves about 100 GB. After all, the story of Joel and Ellie can be completed in 23 hours.
We will find more such examples, and I am more than sure that in 2024 there will be more of them. But why are games so big?
You might think it’s because of the graphics. On the one hand, you’re right, high-resolution textures eat up a lot, but this article is about pointing out interesting things. These are often non-graphics files. For example, in The Last of Us Part 1 this 17 GB. To give you an idea, English-specific files take up 1.6 GB, while other languages take up another 8.5 GB. After all, this is larger than the average game size 10 years ago.
Source :Indian TV
