Tears of the Kingdom has the largest file size of any First-Party Nintendo game to date.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has the largest file size of any first party Nintendo Switch game, even coming in larger than its predecessor Breath of the Wild. https://t.co/uPFk0lJloO pic.twitter.com/zUKL4wig6C
— IGN (@IGN) February 9, 2023
by Wubbzy-mon
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Considering buying a Switch Lite. Would ToK be worth playing on Switch Lite?
Might be the justification for the $10 price increase, though it wouldn’t be the first game to use a card larger than 16 GB.
Also a fun fact, Ocarina used a 32 MB cartridge and was closer to $100 adjusted for inflation.
Can’t wait to see it in glorious 10fps
This game is going to be a shitshow to run, Switch is archaic hardware
Looks like I’m gonna clear up some space if I’m taking the voucher route but I’ll still prioritize grabbing physical. Hopefully the standard physical copy is still reasonably priced since that’s usually cheaper in my country.
“Its just dlc for botw” -copers
I’m a little scared now considering botw was tiny. But SUPER well optimized
This can’t be accurate since a bunch of wise guys told me it was glorified DLC recycling all the botw assets.
Guess I need to upgrade my storage finally.
It’s probably to hold all of the Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM
Doesn’t surprise me honestly. Looking forward to it. Probably won’t get it day 1 because in all honestly money’s tight and I don’t even really get games at $60 anymore let alone $70 but first sale or pre-owned copy I see is getting copped!
This is xenoblade chronicles x erasure
Well, it’s basically another full game built on top of BotW, right? Honestly, nothing has really excited me all that much. You could tell me it was DLC, and I would’ve believed it.
Is it hours on hours of Ravioli being a dick?
I’m glad I just pre-ordered the physical copy.
Reason for the file size: It’s all Korok seeds
Duh… The entirety of Botw, which is already large. + the dlc content would of course warrant a large size
If they are using pre-rendered cutscenes again, I hope they’re using some of that extra space to make them 1080p this time. But hopefully they’re not pre-rendered
I used to stress about this, then I invested in an unreasonably large microSD: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/209996019423903744/1073585797028118528/IMG_20230210_124611714.jpg
So if the price hike is related solely to needing an expensive, custom cart, what about digital?
So what? It’s the content of the game that matters…
The total file size is 18.2 GB.
For comparison: That is more than five times as much as Pokémon Red for the Game Boy.
Pass.
Perhaps there are textures this time
its bigger than a 2017 wiiu game? Mind blown
Hugely telling IMO. If there was any way to cut down the size to 16 and save the cart size and $70 price tag, they certainly would have done it. It lends credence to the 2 world theory. A second world is a huge amount of data that can’t be trimmed. Voice acting can be cut. Cut scenes can be trimmed. Dungeons can be moved to DLC. But if you have a 2 world game theres nothing you can do. Maybe the sky islands take way more hard drive than we realize. Maybe they go really really high or different ones appear and disappear. But the 2 Link looks (one wearing ancient clothes), the dual dragon logo (usually oroboros is just 1 dragon, and the 2 dragons are spinning in unison not eating each others tail), the 2 look master sword in the logo, and the time travel/manipulation powers galore, all point to a 2-time game to me.
BOTW was a little over 14 GB with a addition 3 GB for the dlc. Smash was a little over 17 GB on its own. What TotK has to be big. The biggest game on the switch so far has to be the Witcher 3. Each cartridge for the switch can store up to 32 GB and Witcher 3’s port does exactly that. If the sky and ground worlds are as big as I’m expecting, Nintendo must have been able to truly optimize the overworld of hyrule.
I still am sad Pikmin 4 is in July but I imagine TOTK will keep me entertained til then.
A whopping 18GB. Move over Sony, you’re not the only system that players can only fit 3 games on.
and some people here think this is no more than a dlc content-wise
Thankfully, Nintendo doesn’t make you install physical games. The increased cartridge size might be why the game is more expensive.
May require a larger capacity cartridge with a battery in it.