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Why are Games so BIG now?
stryxo returns after nearly 2 months to rant about the absurd filesizes of modern AAA video games.
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Part of the script until i hit word limit:
Is this not ridiculous to anyone else? We are on the 9th generation of consoles, NINTH, and one of the biggest hangups I have to deal with is that 667gb of usable, default storage, all of a sudden, isn’t that much. Go back a couple decades and I’m 90% sure I could fit the entire playstation 2 line up on 667 gigabytes. Yet in 2024 I get to download Red Dead Redemption 2, Fifa 23, the Call of Duty HQ hub thing or whatever it is, FF7 Rebirth, and the Demon Souls remake. Five whole games, and the thought that I’d want to add Elden Ring on top of this means I’ll only have 7 free gigabytes of space to, play bomb rush cyberfunk, or balatro. If I want to play skyrim, I’ll have to uninstall one of these games, or I’m encouraged to spend 90 dollars on a special edition storage upgrade so that I won’t have to worry about this issue.
I can’t even rely on game discs anymore because some of them are straight up just keys for a digital download nowadays, which can only make me feel a certain type of way for deciding to spend an extra 100 dollars on a disc drive.
Also just to preface this video, while doing research for all the file sizes for these games, not only are their discrepancies between PC and Consoles for the same game, but some people just have varying install sizes? I know some games are updated after the fact to optimize storage, otherwise I don’t know. I saw nearly 10 different accurate file sizes for just one game, and I can only imagine why, so if I happen to get the exact gigabyte number of a game wrong, apologies. Just imagine the numbers I say are a general amount.
Anyways it’s not like i’m exactly breaking ground by talking about this, it’s no secret that the file sizes for certain AAA games are absolutely massive now. Nearly every other month you see a brand new headline for an article by PC Gamer, Kotaku, or IGN talking about how the next call of duty, or the next big triple AAA game set to come out is some absurd number of gigabytes. And everyone can tell it’s absurd, to the point that it is a real, genuine conspiracy big developers like Activision are purposefully bloating the size of their live service games so you’re less likely to free up space on your drive to play something else. At a certain point I can’t even blame them, because here’s Modern Warfare 2019, and here’s Modern Warfare 2020(3). On the left is a 159 gigabyte game, on the right is a 240 gigabyte game. 81 gigabytes of difference.
You’re probably wondering how any of this possibly came to happen, and to answer that we need to back up a bit, a bit further, little bit- WOAH, TOO FAR, FORWARD, okay, perfect, 1996. Let’s take a look at the size of some N64 games, because when this console came out, these cartridges could hold up to a maximum of 64mb of data. Some games like Dr. Mario 64 were put on carts that could only hold 4mb of data, which looking at gameplay of this yeah that tracks. Some other games were bigger, like Super Mario 64 coming in at 6mb, or Starfox 64 at 10mb. Only a few games were actually put on the 64mb carts, like Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Paper Mario, Pokemon Stadium 2, and Resident Evil 2.
Jumping forward just 5 years, the GameCube comes out and introduces it’s own specialized format of mini DVD’s that can hold ~1.5gb of data. StarFox Assault comes in at a whopping 1.3gb in size, and Super Mario Sunshine comes in at 1.35gb in size. For the StarFox franchise, that’s a 129x increase in file size in just five years, and for the Mario franchise, it’s an even larger 224x increase in size, which sounds absurd, because it is. Taking a look at it visually really puts it into perspective, with each dot representing one megabyte. Super Mario 64 is 6mb, and Super Mario Sunshine is 1350 megabytes.
The rate of change we’re working with is like if Red Dead Redemption 2 came out in 2018 and people were shocked about a 150gb file size, then 5 years later Red Dead Redemption 3 came out and was 33 Terabytes.
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @animewool
    @animewool 2 години тому

    I didn’t get what he was trying to say Was he getting angry about high storage or he was complaining about the players ?

  • @3D_PEANUT
    @3D_PEANUT 4 години тому

    fuck remasters. go original old campaigns are really just better oh and also why the fuck is a pirated cod mw 2 (2009) 5gb and the steam one is 12gb edit 2: why do you need good graphics in racing games? i play them and you race at 230km/h. hell if you see something

  • @JoseLgamer05
    @JoseLgamer05 5 годин тому

    ARK survival evolved has to be the worst offender at probably 500GiB with all dlcs. That's more than my entire boot drive which is 500GB (~465GiB usable)

  • @senthil480
    @senthil480 6 годин тому

    Unlike

  • @senthil480
    @senthil480 6 годин тому

    I don't like you

  • @zyadelmarwany4566
    @zyadelmarwany4566 6 годин тому

    Honestly... I didn't have any issues at all with origin, that horrible glitch never happened to me ever but i still agree that its bad, i mean look at steam, its well made, giving you features and the ability to review games and see what does the players think about this game, man even epic games is better than origin, EA app is still not a big improvement at all.. at least it runs my games..

  • @Bunnycornv
    @Bunnycornv 7 годин тому

    The thing I hate about bedrock most is that I see cool mob farms and then I go to put them into my world and they simply don’t work on bedrock.

  • @Justachamp772
    @Justachamp772 7 годин тому

    Who's here after next COD taking 350GB

  • @TheRaptorCat
    @TheRaptorCat 8 годин тому

    I hate not being able to have my own custom skins But my biggest pet peeve is when Im joining a realm with my friends where I had full hearts and to log in have 1 heart and die before I could do anything? Like wtf I was safe when I logged off

  • @Thecatontheinternet749
    @Thecatontheinternet749 9 годин тому

    This is why I don’t play live service games and I only play video games that are considered masterpiece and indie games in general

  • @SimonPolaki-qm7jg
    @SimonPolaki-qm7jg 10 годин тому

    Frock

  • @prabeshgurung1067
    @prabeshgurung1067 12 годин тому

    While doesn't solve the issue of storag, still major respects given to studios that release the playable, full launch version of the game on disc, and/or updates the disc to include additional content added. Some recent ones, FF7 rebirth, Gran Turismo 7 (has around 100gb on download disc, but still requires additional download for post-launch content), FromSoftware games and most games on the switch. My god, when I got EA SWBF2 and could only play the tutorial while thegame took all day to download despite using the disc. Yeah no, never again. I'm also dissapointed that most, if not all fighting games last and this gen donT actually update the contents on disc when they release updated versions that include DLC, and require the use of a code.

  • @Thebigfatzombie
    @Thebigfatzombie 14 годин тому

    No shit Sherlock

  • @Thebigfatzombie
    @Thebigfatzombie 14 годин тому

    Nah bedrock is the best with all its death bugs, pause screen not actually pausing the game, paying for texture packs, and everything-else-bugs, no quick game mode change function (f3 and f4), and its hellish redstone.

  • @kimberlyblumberg1153
    @kimberlyblumberg1153 14 годин тому

    I fell like they should leave high res textures to vr because if you want to play vr you want to be immerse

  • @chasebennion
    @chasebennion 15 годин тому

    Bedrock really isn’t that bad, leave us alone 😫

  • @digonto9683
    @digonto9683 15 годин тому

    I remember a time when 50 gb games were considered big..

  • @Pyraticalpunk
    @Pyraticalpunk 17 годин тому

    COD Cold War is bigger than Cyberpunk 2077 on ps4

  • @NicholasMolinaro-en9dm
    @NicholasMolinaro-en9dm 20 годин тому

    I am sorry but I just don't agree. Nearly all of their problems are either easily fixable or the same thing as what almost every ither mega corp is doing, but on not as big of a scale.

    • @Nathan-rb3qp
      @Nathan-rb3qp 19 годин тому

      No mega corps should be consistently screwing up this bad to begin with.

  • @Fiprah
    @Fiprah 20 годин тому

    Ya can download maps and mods for free

  • @billbobs678
    @billbobs678 20 годин тому

    Bedrock better for vanilla Java better for mods

  • @Shrek12381
    @Shrek12381 21 годину тому

    Konami: the king of Nes and Snes Also Konami: the jester of new gen consoles I can agree with this, But I love them.

  • @ferred3056
    @ferred3056 22 години тому

    Bro your content is literally about negativity who are you to say that bedrock sucks. Really if you still care about java-bedrock argument you're either 10 years old or you don't have a life

  • @MrYtp12
    @MrYtp12 23 години тому

    I used to have 6.9 mps download speeds 😂 downloading a large game was a two day vacation off my laptop…

  • @ultrakillplayeri
    @ultrakillplayeri 23 години тому

    just get ultrakill

  • @MoominBoomin
    @MoominBoomin День тому

    fun fact; you can get 1 TB of pc storage (MP33 1TB) for 58 dollars. I don't like game sizes getting crazy

  • @user-pn1hh6iz3j
    @user-pn1hh6iz3j День тому

    You know i actually think bedrock should be given a chance it's not half bad in most cases it could even be good

  • @flamenskall2016
    @flamenskall2016 День тому

    Ironically To a native bedrock user Java sux in some of the same ways Jave nativity uses mouse and keyboard for default controls but if you double click an item in a chest in bedrock, it collects all the items in one stack. Maybe this is just my inexperience with pc games, but how da hell do you change your fkn skin in Java? Bedrock its just one click and it takes you right to the custom character screen Yeah needless to say, im sticking with bedrock even though it can really suck sometimes (cant place blocks outside the world. Can only fill 32768 dispite bedrock being more than capable of filling more than that with no problems in older versions)

    • @Marshin209.
      @Marshin209. 12 годин тому

      In java you go to the launcher, you can choose between premade skins, or downloaded other ones for free online. Java has different mouse functionality, different combinations of mouse clicks and stuff can result in different shortcuts than bedrock. Btw i was a bedrock user for many years, untill the first day I played Java

  • @deadtheories4170
    @deadtheories4170 День тому

    Bedrock doesn't even run well on phones neither 🤦🏾‍♂️ JAVA runs better than bedrock on my phone plus the better mods, shaders, resourcepacks, and most everything else means even on my phone I haven't played bedrock in years

  • @absolutezero9507
    @absolutezero9507 День тому

    I like the 90s console wars. I love it. Make companies fight over who can make the better game. No hardware considered, just games quality

  • @dream_77707
    @dream_77707 День тому

    The best game that fits the topic of this video… Genshin Impact

  • @somewhere367
    @somewhere367 День тому

    BG3 is also only about 150 gigs and is one of the most content rich games to come out in a while.

  • @RedFire42791
    @RedFire42791 День тому

    Every game industry sucks.

  • @od13166
    @od13166 День тому

    Oh theres pal let you skip walking While game has ac style climbing mechanic

  • @od13166
    @od13166 День тому

    Also he says **game detail.suck over fun**

  • @lukadjo
    @lukadjo День тому

    Soo maybe we don't actually need hyper realistic graphics 🤔

  • @Staravora
    @Staravora День тому

    This is definitely part of the reason why I stopped playing things like CoD and started playing more indie games I mean the space to fun ratio of like CoD to Valheim is vastly different. Sure they are vastly different games but like I don't have to download a shitload of updates just to play, my computer isn't stressed out by running it, and I'm having more fun because Valheim is a game made to be fun and not just a ploy to consume your money and time and more money and computer space

  • @jonaspedersen388
    @jonaspedersen388 День тому

    I agree so much

  • @Cypeq
    @Cypeq День тому

    It's not games being big, it's sony giving you tiny amount of storage.

  • @BroskiArmy23
    @BroskiArmy23 День тому

    Trash vpns

  • @blueblend_
    @blueblend_ День тому

    3:10 no way he actually said cod bo2 has an ok campaign

  • @wesen789
    @wesen789 День тому

    I grew up with bedrock

  • @od13166
    @od13166 День тому

    F.E.A.R from 2004 game runs on old ass engine but still fun

  • @MrAnt-sf2sk
    @MrAnt-sf2sk День тому

    Imagine if ace combat 8 comes out and all the environment textures are 4k

  • @papapickett7267
    @papapickett7267 День тому

    I got bored after 2 hours. Ill never go back. Farming and catching pokemon. Its boring and mind numbing as FUCK.

  • @tmoneytrev9798
    @tmoneytrev9798 День тому

    Only thing I enjoyed more about Bedrock is using a controller. After months of switching to Java I still don’t like using keyboard and mouse

  • @LordJunes
    @LordJunes День тому

    The biggest problem I have with Bedrock is not the version but the Bedrock UA-camrs who don't mention that it's Bedrock. So I watch a 40 minute tutorial on how to build a mega Redstone machine only for him to say at 37:22 "Of course that doesn't work in the Java version"... Every Bedrock player should be banned from UA-cam in my opinion this is not an isolated case. Bedrock costs less, it can be bought with pocket money so there are more children buying it and they make more videos, albeit less popular. But thanks to this I can search for what I want. In the last 3 weeks the UA-cam algorithm has been so bad that 9 out of 10 redstone instructions are ALWAYS for Bedrock, even if the title says Java it was still for Bedrock because children use these clickbait titles or tags!

  • @squidplayz1782
    @squidplayz1782 День тому

    To play Java u need a really beefy computer and not everyone can afford a £2000 on a computer but u could get a really smooth running version for 3/4 of the price

    • @nyyxursobad
      @nyyxursobad День тому

      yeah this is literally not true lmao

  • @yourlocalwaifu8601
    @yourlocalwaifu8601 День тому

    The experience of dying to zombies that wandered into my nether portal before I even load in and having to turn it to peaceful <<<