Killzone Shadow Fall is 50GB

[carlwoods]

Guerilla Games' debut PlayStation 4 launch game, Killzone: Shadow Fall, is "an uber file" of 50GB, according to Sony UK's Fergal Gara.

"I think it's cracking on for 50GB," Gara told Eurogamer. "It looks it, too, when you see it." Gara continued to explain that downloading massive games "is still a relatively tedious process. We've done a lot of work on pre-delivering files. It's not perfect. It's not seamless." This, perhaps, further explains a little more why Shadow Fall won't have a locked frame rate of 60.

Gara also said that digital distribution on PS4 "is definitely going to grow as a means of consumption. And there are big innovations in the PS4 to make it more attractive and more easy gamer wise to want to download. The Play as you Download functionality, for example, means you don't need the whole file before you go."

Mercy.

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/09/30/sony-killzone-shadow-fall-is-50gb

Looks like a digital download probably won't be an option for anyone with a slow connection or monthly bandwidth limit. This is gonna be the biggest issue with game distribution going fully digital, the content is only gonna get bigger in size. Sony is also gonna have to make some major upgrades to the PSN servers, I have a 50mbit connection but only get about 500kb/1mb per second when downloading off PSN.

 

[Oberon]

(fixed your link,you need 30 posts to be able to add links)

Well,yeah..but who is actually gone get this via download? They are a rip off mostly too,at least new releases are.
Ill stick with the disc version thanks,I can get it cheaper and sell it later if I want.

 

[Ciel]

That is incredible. Hopefully future releases will find a better way to compress the information... (while still maintaining quality)?

 

[wowtgp]

Oh my goodness! It's going to take more than 3 days to even download this game man! That's really huge. I only have a 2MBPS internet. I think it's time to upgrade it. But this game is next gen. What else can you expect from it.

 

[BioLee]

I guess I will need to upgrade the PS4 HDD sooner than I thought, probably getting a 2tb HDD as soon as possible so later I don't have any problems with the saves later or the need to download the games again.

 

[unwittyoneliner]

Wtf. My monthly plan gives me 150 gigs. That'd be a third in one shot lol. It is a crazy good looking game, though. I saw footage where a sequence of explosions happen, and they look extremely realistic.

 

[BioLee]

According to some recent news the first build of killzone had an installation of 290gb but with the help of Sony they managed to shrink it down to 40gb. They managed to do this using textures made only for the PS4, according to Van der Leeuw.

Source : http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/24/5024452/killzone-shadow-fall-shrink-290-to-40-gb

I'm happy that at least we will be able to start playing the game after only 7.5gb of download. It would be really cool of they started selling keys in external sites like they do for PC, that why we would have a way more competitive market.

 

[gandalfsauce]

And this is only a launch title. Imagine future games

 

[andrew172]

(fixed your link,you need 30 posts to be able to add links)

Well,yeah..but who is actually gone get this via download? They are a rip off mostly too,at least new releases are.
Ill stick with the disc version thanks,I can get it cheaper and sell it later if I want.

Yeah, usually I tend to buy games second hand off amazon or a store nearby, and when I'm satisfied I won't play it anymore I can sell it off. You can do either of these things with downloads meaning you lose out on money on both ends.