Star Wars Jedi: Survivor's PS5 File Size Is Ridiculous

So, 139 GB on XsS and 147 on PS5? Even though Kraken on PS can literally make miracles with file size? Have not Respawn even touched this or it is some kind of a console parity?

I'm glad I like to play smaller GB size PS4 games, around 3 - 10 GB.
I don't even like ULTRA OMG HYPER REALISTIC graphics. It just turned me OFF.
Gimme cute cartoon looking games with smaller GB size and I call it a day.

I had to reinstall Horizon Forbidden West last night and the file size (including the new dlc) is 129GB, so this isn’t a huge shock to me.

Welp time to put that new SSD I bought to use.

Forces you to clear that backlog a little. I've got bf2042, warzone, HFW and rocket league installed along with a bunch of smaller titles. Haven't started HFW yet so if I get JS, that'll make room for it.

More cutscenes to store then...

I have it pre-ordered but I guess I'll just finish and 100% Burning Shores before I even install it

I gasped when I read it. Good that I cleared space some time ago. Even so, I will check again, as we need more space than this to download it...

I’m at 6Mbps so I will be playing by Christmas 🎄 😂

Geez, that is big. I cleared some games off so I could open up 100 GB and that’s not going to be enough. Drat, am I going to have to delete GT7… I like having it on there for a race every now and then.

That more then 8 times the file size of Tears of the Kingdom

@Dezzy70 Ouch brother. Could not live in this modern age with 6Mbps. Feel for you 😉

So it's not even going to be all on the disc 🤣Might be a few gigs and then download the rest

@Anti-Matter we get it already you a grown-up
Who only enjoys kid’s games. You don’t have to keep saying it on every article it starting to feel like you trolling.

@adamnovice pretty much a necessity i think. I bought 2tb before i managed to even get a ps5 lol.

Wonderful I've got the disc ordered it'll probably just be completely installed on to the SSD instead of a portable .exe type thing that boots the disc I wonder how big the steam version will be.

That’s what usually happens with multiplatform games.

@Michael2008ish Cutscenes aren't the issue since very little is pre rendered nowadays. The 4k textures and audio files are what take up most of the space.

I thought the 'power of the PS5' was supposed to reduce file sizes thanks as a consequence of not having to store multiple copies of assets. 147GB is insane.

@Tomato_Goose And it's just 44GB on Series S thanks to lack of 4K assets

@jey887 thanks for the info. My knowledge on the tech is quite limited. Shall look into it more 😀

@PenguinLtd Tbh my internet connection can download 144GB faster that install it from the disc

@ItsBritneyB_tch was about to mention this, HFW's current size after the big update and expansion. Be kinda relieved when I've 100% finished the expansion, so I can free up the 130GB for other games

There is absolutely no way in hell I’m fitting that on my PS5. Did they just include too many odd man buns and beards at a microscopic level?

@Tomato_Goose Extra PlayStation exclusive ponchos

The 500 GB size SSD is turning out to be a joke. If you play a couple sports games like NBA 2K23 and The Show on a regular basis, those 2 games alone are pushing 250 GB combined. I guess I will break down and pick up a new SSD.

This is why the PS5 pro will have a 2tb SSD 👀

I added a TB as soon as I got my digital console, not added one to my disc drive PS5 yet, but I have games on my installed SSD like Valhalla, Far Cry 6 and GTAV that are all around the 100gb mark, Horizon is bigger too, so I'll probably only have to delete one large game, which isn't that bad to be honest. I definitely recommend investing in an SSD if you have some cash to waste, because the QoL improvements are really nice, you don't get much else for your money, but it makes this generation less frustrating 😁

It sucks if you are maxing out memory with lots of smaller titles though, a brutal cull in the same manor as the Empire eradicating the Jedi will have to commence on your systems. At least you get to RP Darth Vader as you decide which games to wipe out

Can’t wait to play. Hopefully this means a bigger and meatier game. Bring on the 28th.

@nessisonett Your forgetting the all important lightsaber particle effects. And audio, 'whoosh'.

Don't care, I need this game.

@PenguinLtd not really, takes exactly the same amount of space on your console as a digital one, and I'm sorry that you have slow broadband. 👍

Da power of the ssd!!!

@Tomato_Goose Don't start the conspiracy theorists off.
"Microsoft are paying developers to make their games bigger on PS5!"

When in doubt, throw more codes at it. Let the gamers deal with the storage.

So, are we back to the PS1 days of three discs in the box? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hardware gets better (SSD load times) so software can get worse (bloatware like this). We see this as well with mediocre games chewing through VRAM. Devs don't need to be considerate of resources.

@rjejr It even got up to 4 discs with FFIX. I think now, though, they can compress it on disc, like RARs, and decompress during installation.

@Amin1998 it means higher quality textures and more voice acting, if anything. The size of the game (geographically speaking) and the size of the game in terms of storage aren't really connected. Daggerfall (The Elder Scrolls 2) is 190mb yet the game world is the size of the UK, hundreds or thousands of times bigger than almost any other game. And most of that 190mb is probably the music and small number of very low res movies.

Game sequels always balloon in size when the protagonist grows a beard. This isn't news

What the.... Is this a late April joke?

@rjejr I wish we would be. Game Keys on a Disc is the true shame these days

That's ridiculous. With the tiny drives on these consoles there's kind of an obligation to keep game sizes down. I thought GT7 was nuts at 120-something.

@rjejr Riven, Klingon Academy, and...wast it Baldur's Gate? were like 6 discs on PC! They had these huge fanfold cardboard sleeves that held to discs tall and trifolded out. (that scratched the discs when you used them!)

It's like up is down, I remember joking about their poor offerings on PC way back in the day, now this fits consoles better:

E. A. Ports: It's in the name

… Shoot. I guess I’ll do some purging on the storage when this eventually goes on sale.

Holy expandable storage batman!

Spoke to a friend of mine who develops games and he said its probably just UE4 bloatware.

If you we're to start a project using the engine and did nothing but save it there and then, that is likely to be a file size of about a gig.

Hopefully though it's a big game with some mind blowing scenes that would justify this file size.

We shall see

New article as reality sets in "the ps5 storage space is laughable" 2 years too late. Congrats. Do you want a medal? No **** sherlock

It’s to bad that Sony went with a proprietary expansion SSD that they sell at an inflated price, Oh wait, that was the other company.

Dam, what did they put in the game? A whole planet 😏😏

@Matroska @Nintendo4Sonic @NEStalgia

So I put in some minimal effort and it looks like a PS5 disc can hold 100GB, I thought we were still stuck at 50GB, so it only needs 2 discs. But I'll bet we get 1 and have to download the rest. 😝 I feel bad for the 6Mbps guy. 😢

@rjejr I guess so. Activision are already masters at this method. Let's put a 100MB Key on the disc for downloading the whole game. 👍

I really can't believe that. Why is a game like Hogwarts Legacy only around 70GB and this eats 147GB? Did they put 8K textures everywhere???
I mean, I got a 2TB SSD in my PS5. But even though, I didn't buy that for such a high price so that one game fills so much of it. 😕

@PenguinLtd Why would it be frustrating to someone who purchased a digital only console? The PS5 has an expansion bay for more storage. Go by some if the ~1TBish amount of storage of the PS5 isn't enough. 2TB's are cheap, 1TB and 512GB cheaper still. If you're digital, you're probably eyeballing that 4TB since you saved 100 dollars by going all digital in the first place.

146GB, not a big deal in 2023. More power to them. I just hope they put the game on two discs. After all, we didn't pay for digital, we expect your data to be on pretty coasters that we can re-install at any time once PSN goes away.

@rjejr One can only hope.

@Ravix my PS5 Disc model already has 2.8TB in it. Sounds like a down grade. lol

Nah I'm good 👍 😌 that's ridiculous

@ItsBritneyB_tch Stuff like that makes me prefer standalone expansions/mini sequels to DLC when they release so long after the base game. Burning Shores would have been a great side game like Miles Morales, and you wouldn't need to redownload the whole base game you've probably already platted just for some DLC.

@Orpheus79V yeah I agree. I wish it had been a stand-alone release. It had been over a year since I completed the main game and it felt a little underwhelming just loading your previous save and receiving another quest.

I also wish the dlc let you play as the new character Seyka because I find Aloy painfully dull and boring after HFW. There’s no depth to Aloy’s personality, she just helps random people because she’s kind and good to everyone 😴 Seyka is a much more interesting character.

@ItsBritneyB_tch Horizon is, likely, a MUCH bigger game though. The previous Jedi game was barely a 30 hour experience, without a lot of interaction with other characters. I enjoyed it, but it was pretty bare bones. I guess we'll see what this one offers.

So ps5 games look as if they are actually starting to exhibit things that were promised fidelity wise (not 4k@60fps as that was never on the menu) and people are puckering up their prune chutes extra tight because they take up more space? If you can afford to have that many games on your ssd (assuming you paid full rrp) then you can spring to extra storage. I myself only have a few games installed at once because i only have a finite amount of hours to dedicate to gaming at the mo..its not the end of the world folks.

Not a major problem if you're not hoarding game installs.

It has to be a freaking goty contender to be worth that. It's not even an open world game. What's it using all that for?

That's the biggest game size I've seen so far, nothing else really close to that on my PS5. A few of these and would need to expand that hard drive

So in the end the SSD did nothing for game sizes, we'll probably be seeing a situation in the near future that the PS5/Series X only holds like 3 games with the internal storage.

At least the Switch still does plenty of real physical versions so internal storage is less important.

@Grumblevolcano its not so much to do with the ssd size but more to do with kraken. Imagine how big this would be without using kraken.@razorhanzo mw2 and warzone 2.0 are pretty close if you have both installed.

Just checked and I’ve got 12G free on the SSD😂. Moving GT7 (120GB!) and/or Dead Space or RE4 (about 50GB) to the external drive would do the trick, but I might get a 2TB internal drive now they’re around £180. 667GB internal was never going to be enough!

@Ravix If you think a PS5 Pro (that most likely doesn't exist) will have a 2TB SSD you're crazy as that would raise the cost to near 1K levels, SSD's are not cheap and no way are Sony just giving out a 2TB one for free.

@Grumblevolcano Why would SSD's impact game sizes?

This is just stupid. Almost twice of what Horizon and God of War are? LMAO!

@WallyWest of course I'm just speculating. I'd expect the eventual pro console to be pretty expensive anyway tbh. But thanks for calling me crazy 😁😁

@PenguinLtd Download is quick for me on ps5 digital console

@WallyWest I use a 4tb harddrive keeps all my ps4 games and ps5 ones if wanted play just swap them quick

@Ravix I say crazy because a Pro console would already be at a high premium price so adding a 2TB SSD would be adding another £300 to the console. There's no way in hell Sony would sell a £800-£1000 console.

@Falkirk4life I have a 4TB HD and a separate 1TB SSD plus the PS5 base storage and it still easy to fill all up. This game is going to have me deleting either a big game or loads of games 😅

@Grumblevolcano Well we don't really know that. Maybe the file size would've been 25% bigger on a mechanical HDD.

@WallyWest Based on Mark Cerny's presentation, there was some compression techniques that the PS5's SSD can use to shrink the file size. I think the most notable size difference is Control UE on PS5 compared to PS4.

@WallyWest "Why would SSD's impact game sizes?"

SSDs, we were told, would make game sizes smaller b/c the SSD has a faster speed so the devs wouldn't have to duplicate material on the disc near other sections where it might have to be read.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/11/marvels_spider-man_file_sizes_are_25_per_cent_smaller_on_ps5

@Nintendo4Sonic If they only put 100*MB* on a disc might as well just be honest and put a piece of paper w/ a code. 🤷‍♂️

@NotSoCryptic Fingers crossed.🤞

@grapetrap Agreed. 2 discs, 3 discs, whatever it takes to have the entire game. If I'm paying for the entire physical game then I should get the entire physical game. Simple enough. But the world is broken, so no. 🤑

@rjejr a piece of paper with a code isn't reusable by others though, at least the 100mb discs, however rubbish, do keep that.

@Balosi Ah, my mistake, I assumed the 100mb discs acted as a kind of code and could only be used over on the same console. I guess that's 1 way to market a disc - Install Dsics, for people too lazy to look up a link in the store. 🤷‍♂️

So I'm not gonna play this on my Series S for sure Already have it pre-ordered for PS5, guess Modern Warfare 2 needs to leave my HDD now..

Makes me even more excited. I've got room for that beautiful baby, bring it on!