It doesn't always make a notable difference, but when the PS5's touted file compression tech comes into play like this, it's well worth pointing out. As reported by the ever-reliable PlayStation Game Size on Twitter, the file size for Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion is actually halved on Sony's current-gen console, when compared to the PS4 version.
The remastered action RPG is a fairly hefty 40.5GB on PS4, but it's cut down to a much more manageable 21GB on PS5. That's a pretty impressive drop-off, even if we are talking about what is essentially an overhauled PSP game.
To be fair though, it's one heck of an overhaul. We've been playing through Reunion for preview purposes, and the much improved visuals are a worthy talking point.
Does this difference in file size make a difference to you? Make just a bit more room on your PS5's SSD in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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Not much difference, I'll still install both to plat both.
The ps5 compression hasn't really impressed me so far I've got horizon forbidden west , god of war Ragnarok , gran turismo 7 , doom eternal , hitman 3 & they're all still big file sizes That kraken isnt all its kracked up to be
On PS4 it’s because Zack has 10 GB bumcheeks.
@Would_you_kindly Sure, there are still large games, but you can't expect games that offer 50-100+ hours of content to magically be small just because of really good compression. Patches are generally fairly small, even for huge games like Horizon Forbidden West, and comparing patches for multi-platform games like Assassin's Creed Valhalla is a huge difference. Today's patch for Valhalla was just under 2GB on PS5 and around 16 GB on the Series X.
You tried to be clever, but you're actually wrong.
@KilloWertz how was I trying to be clever I was just saying in my opinion it's not as good as I was expecting from the way cerny was talking about it
@KilloWertz that's a pretty big difference for that patch between consoles.
@Would_you_kindly "That kraken isnt all its kracked up to be"
Obviously not everybody uses it (Call of Duty, NBA 2K...), but overall it has been pretty impressive. Games that are big like Horizon Forbidden West are obviously going to have larger file sizes than a lot of other games. You can't compress games that are 50-100 hours quite that much, but again, the patches for most of those games like Forbidden West are generally pretty small.
@WCB Very much so. Basically all of the Assassin's Creed Valhalla patches have been that big of a difference between the PS5 and the Series X. I know that's only one example, but patches for PlayStation exclusives have generally been pretty small as well.
21GB file size is good to hear. I have about 80GB free for this and Callisto Protocol. I'll be upgrading my M.2 to 4TB soon. 1TB didn't last that long...
@DTfeartheBEARD downloading Callisto protocol now it's 43 GB
@Would_you_kindly kraken is very good and is all its cracked up to be. I find native ps5 games to be very small really compared to what ps4 games could be however cross gen games still take up a fair old chunk so i'd wager that devs just cant be arsed to optimise the compression system..not a fault of kraken itself more half arsed programming.
It doesn’t make a difference to me really. I had the base 500GB hard drive last gen, where the games were larger, and never hit a problem. Largely because I have no problem deleting games once I’ve finished them.
Judging by the number of people bitching that the PS5 drive is “only” 50% larger though, I figure this is helpful to many people.
@Would_you_kindly I think kraken might be more impressive once we move away from cross-gen releases. I have to admit i dont know much about how this all works, but when we are seeing titles move to PS5 only i think it could come into its own. It will also be interesting to compare the size of multiplatform next gen PS5 and Series X titles as i think the few examples we do have to date have shown the PS5 footprint is smaller.
@Rob_230 I don't know anything about compression tech but Microsoft supposedly has their own for series X called BCPack that's supposedly better than Kraken
@Would_you_kindly supposedly yeah. But as with a lot of things on series X like velocity and 24TFLOP RT cores plus actual first party AAA games, after two years into the gen we’ve seen sweet F all from Team Green. It’s a joke.
It's nice to see more games take advantage of Kraken. Only difference I've noticed so far is GOW Ragnarok being 20GB smaller on PS5. It's nice to have a FF game not taking up nearly 100GB for a change, looking at you FF15 and FF7R. I dread to see FF16 and Rebirth's file sizes...
@Northern_munkey I guess his point is the only games we have to compare are cross gen and you say they can’t be bothered to optimise. Who is to say they ever will. This is a good result but most cases are as we feared I think. Maybe it’s a good sign for other square Enix products though
@Would_you_kindly Thanks for the info. I appreciate it. My physical copy won't arrive until Friday. Congratulations on the new PS5! I hope you enjoy it!
@DTfeartheBEARD my 2tb is starting to run its course too. Didn’t even last past a year. Sometimes I wish I was a casual and only played Fortnite, COD and sports games lol. Would definitely save me money on games AND SSD’s 😂
@Dishonored29 Exactly! 🤣. Sometimes, I envy my nephews who only play like 3 games a year (COD, Fifa, & NBA 2K). My 1TB didn't even last a year. I've been getting the Platinum for games to transfer them over to the 8TB HDD. But I like to have all of my games installed and ready to play at any time, so deleting and transferring games bothers me, lol. Same with my Series X. Constantly deleting and transferring games, especially with Game Pass. It sucks 😕.
My PS5's internal storage is extra grateful for this fact.
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