Cyberpunk 2077 Is a Massive 102GB Download on PS4

Hopefully the actual PS5 version is more optimized/compact, but that's a long shot. All signs are pointing at me waiting for the official PS5 release at this point.

No big deal. I do wish they were releasing a native PS5 version though, for various reasons, including to see how much smaller it would be. The PS5 patch later next year isn’t the same, and will likely add size rather than remove it.

@thefourfoldroot PS5 does seem to have some great compression techniques, so it could be smaller. When I install Demon's Souls remake via disc, it initially wants 60GB, but final install size is about 35GB

@Reyren COD was the case for several releases since there wasn't the whole game on the disc and it needed to download the rest. They were probably too lazy to print a 2nd blu-ray disc.
Since it's not state anywhere on the cover of the game, I believe it will be playable without any need for update.

@Reyren I would assume so, even if you get physical the day 1 patch is rumored to be 43gb which is insane.

How the game went gold in this state is beyond me.

I first read the headline as that was the update size and was like "woah" but for the full game download, yeah it's big, but it's 2020.

Well unless you have Comcast.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90580656/comcast-data-cap-remote-work

@Reyren it should be able to but you may have a problem with your save file if you go on to update after. Depends on how extensive the update is.

Virtually Half of that is the day one patch. Seen alot of gameplay online and it does not look good. There is bugs galore that make Ubisoft look good. Got a feeling there's going to be huge uproar come release day especially for base consoles. 2 camps defenders and haters. I am in the middle to me it looks like a run of the mill fps.

This game needs a free roam mode like this years Mafia 1 remake had. If a small studio like that can do it,then CDProject Red can too.

@deathaxe Judging by the recent leaked gameplay its going to take sometime as they need to fix base consoles versions with many patches.

@Reyren Don't forget for the 1st 2 months it was out,witcher 3 was buggy as hell. It too quite a few patches to fix it.

@deathaxe
Ok, thanks, although these definitions are unfortunately not always as clear as they seem. Games like Warzone are still basically running in back compat mode whilst claiming to be enhanced for next gen. still, if they actually used the word Native then that’s great news (although it looks like I’ll be waiting longer to play the games).

@Rossif3r for sure. Plenty of time to work out any issues too. I guess we might get a Witcher 3 Ps5 patch "soon" too which would give me a reason to finish it and work on the dlc

@hulkie It's an open world RPG, how could it be more free roam than that?

Why not download the update first, then the game later on?

@AJDarkstar Xbox just introduced that as a feature, apparently. Maybe PlayStation will follow.

@deathaxe My only complaint was with the 30fps lock. With such a clunky/weighty combat system, it feels hella sluggish and unresponsive in 30fps.

I wonder how loud my PS4 will sound playing this.

Going to make playing God of War seem quiet i am sure lol.

"825GB is plenty" he said....

@NEStalgia

I don’t disagree with Cerny saying this because I don’t think they’re lying when they say they have the data to prove that 825 was what they felt they could get away with. The problem is it’s simply not enough for a small subsection of gamers and it isn’t sitting well with them.

I have many external HDDs. I loaded up my 5TB with most of my PS4 games before I got my PS5. The issues the system is having with external storage made me experiment.

I learned that I don’t need more than the 825 GB SSD. I have Demon’s Souls, Miles Morales, Astro and Bugsnax on it for PS5 titles and a handful of PS4 titles which include The Last of Us 2 and Destiny chewing up almost 140 GB and I still have 187 GB presently free.

With my internet connection and unlimited data cap, it’s far quicker and easier for me to just download everything I want to play directly on the system storage and in the case of PS4 games, they’re going to perform better running off the SSD compared to an external HDD.

Even if I were not to preload Cyberpunk, it would take me only 20 minutes to download 100 GB. That’s nothing.

So the point is, he’s not wrong.

But not everyone has high speed uncapped internet available.

@AndyKazama spidrman ps4 base game is 63 GB

Remaster with all DLC packed in is 53. Wow

This one game will take 1/10 of my monthly internet data.

I’m not surprised at all. Red Dead Redemption 2 is over 100GB and it’s way of gaming hey. The bigger the game size hopefully all being well the better too. I’m excited for this epic despite some slightly negative reviews. We’ll all make our minds soon folks.

My ps5 is gonna kill me but I'm not playing this on my pro. Though it makes wanting that extra ssd drive update more important....it makes many ui updates important who am I kidding?

Thank God our broadband speed was recently updated as everything is now already downloaded on my PS5 ready to hit play at midnight tomorrow and no doubt spend hours creating my character only to fall asleep, wake up Thursday and decide I'm not happy with how I look and spend all morning redesigning another character. Might even get to play the game if I'm lucky ...

Its only 57gb on PC, pre-loaded it yesterday. I'd take this with a pinch of salt until its confirmed.

Isn't the current 2-layer ps4 disks limited to 50GB? If the download is 100GB, you would think the game would come on two disks. It seems like the disk is just a license to download the full game.

I want to see someone try to run the disk version without internet connection to see if it works. The twist after 10 hours: "Thank you for completing the demo."

That is absolutely ridiculous.

I’ll just wait for the PS5 native version. Hopefully that version won’t need such huge patches.