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Earlier today, we received a leaked report from JeuxVideo – a French-based blog – stating GTA V will be “two and a half times” as big as Red Dead Redemption in terms of map size. Likewise, we saw a lot of positive reactions towards this revelation. However, this opens up some concerns when you search search engines or other social media websitesasking if this ginormous map size will fit under three DVDs for Xbox 360? Upon digging with past data from Rockstar’s previous games, we believe we found a sound answer for this.

GTA V is Bigger Than GTA IV But How About L.A Noire?

Even before Rockstar confirmed GTA V last year, we already receive reports how the game would instantly trounce GTA IV in terms of map size and list of characters. For those who are unaware, GTA IV needs one for Xbox 360 when it was revealed on 2008 (two discs for PC).

Comparison of GTA V and L.A Noire (File size)

Actually, this is a good question because as you can see, L.A Noire’s gigantic map was also based from Los Angelesin the late forties while GTA V will project the modern-day Los Angeles, California including Hollywood (depicted as Los Santos / Vinewood).

When you look at the characters, there’s a possibility GTA V’s cast will become bigger, especially when you based this theory from that report we’ve heard last week that Rockstar won’t use L.A Noire’s in-house facial motion technology simply because the game’s characters are too huge costing the company a lot of money (not to mention Rockstar and Team Bondi had a previous problem in partnership).

Upon checking the system requirements of L.A Noire, its Xbox 360 (Complete Edition) has a file size of 21GB and it needs three DVD for Xbox 360 to work (needs disc swapping on some point of the game too). Naturally, we believe GTA V will have a file size a little bit bigger than the investigative game but considering each disc has a max size of 8.7GB – this means Rockstar can still use the other remaining space (4GB) on the disc for GTA V.

One should also consider that the reason why L.A Noire file size was so big is because of its unique facial-motion technology; however, in the case for Grand Theft Auto V, we believe Rockstar will use its own Euphoria / RAGE engine (could be an upgraded version) shrinking the files a little bit.

Wrap-up

Personally, I don’t think RS will go as much as investing to four DVDs on a single-game simply because it’s more expensive to manufacture (plating disc is not as cheap as you may think). Naturally, the company plans to invest its money on the development of the game or making promotions not by manufacturing it.

The only time I believe Rockstar would need another Disc is if they decided to remake other cities on California aside from Los Angeles and use a new type of graphics engine that eats more file size than what Team Bondi utilized for L.A Noire.

The reason why L.A. Noire took up so much space was mainly because of all the facial animations. This won't be in GTAV and if RDR and GTAIV could fit on 1, I'm sure they can fit GTAV on 3 easily. My guess is it'll be on 2.

would mind actually, would want it

dont plan on buying it on the X-box since i started gta on a ps2 would want it b/c i want to know that R* put there all into the game

hope any DLC comes to the PS3 and X-box at roughly the same time though

if Rockstar have like Skyrim(Bethesda) Compress tech it can be fit on 1 disc

As ever it depends on the game assets and their quality. LA Noire simply had more assets and generally they were of a higher quality than GTA IV. RDR was actually (and sensibly) a fairly barren place with a lot more open countryside (which requires less assets as they clearly repeated lots of trees, bushes, etc) so it was never going to need a ton of space.

Of course, if they do ramp up the asset quality and quantity or aim for LA Noire level mocap and performances then the game will quickly spill over to 2 or more DVDs.

x2.5 the size of RDR. I hope that's true.

I've played GTA IV but not RDR or LA Noire. Can someone who has played them tell me how much bigger are than GTA IV?

If the game is so big that needs more than 1 DVD, I think Microsoft will have a problem: Rockstar won't be able to "force" an install on the 360 because Microsoft forces every game to be able to work on their non-HDD consoles, so they will have to go with disc swapping, and with a game like this one, that may hurt their sales.

Double-layered Blu-ray?

MP disc 1,SP disc 2(or disc 2~3) like BF3

if Rockstar can

LA Noire is coming to OnLive this Tuesday, so if that does good, I'm sure we'll see GTA V for OnLIve, in fact I think theres a possibility that it may be exclusive to OnLive, or OnLive & PC, because they've pushed the systems to limits to as far as they can go. But before you say Rockstar would never go exclusive with one platform, let me remind you that OnLive works on PC, Mac, Linux (Sort-of), Microconsole (Console), and is coming soon to iOS & Android.