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KLAMarine on 20 February 2017

These aren't too big from what I understand. Still, I'm going physical.



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monocle_layton on 20 February 2017

Instead of debating on textures and whatnot, I think it'd be nice to appreciate the fact that Nintendo games are generally small in size.



Platina on 20 February 2017

13.4 GB for Zelda is actually smaller than I would have expected..



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IkePoR on 21 February 2017
Airaku said:
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Breath of the Wild is so small. How can this be a huge open world game? Also, some of the other games are as small as PS1 games. Quite disappointed.
                                

I still don't understand how Nintendo compresses their games so well. I have some theories but their file sizes are always beyond small, other developers struggle to compress the way they do. It's almost magical. In case for Breath of the Wild, the art style allows you to use the lowest possible size of textures. It's absolutely crazy, did you know that Wind Waker HD is only 2.6 GB? Where Twilight Princess HD is 4.51 GB? Those are both decent size games in terms of length but the textures of Twilight Princess and minus the empty spaces make it much larger. Bethesda is also quite decent at compressing as well imho. They aren't as efficient as Nintendo, but they are within the realms of believability and attainability. I think Nintendo uses a lot of tricks in terms of known the own hardware that they created to offset some tricks. I mean Pikmin 3 looks beautiful in terms of graphics and textures and the game is only 3.85 GB. There are demos with much larger file sizes than that and look considerably worse graphically and in terms of textures. Textures are a huge factor in file size. This is why the HD era saw such a massive jump in file sizes.


tl;dr: Breath of the Wild is HUGE with it's massive 13.5 GB size in terms of Nintendo file sizes. They are very efficient when they compress their games and this is their biggest game to date by a long shot.

Sound quality often takes the biggest hits.  I've been playing Fire Emblem Fates recently and noticed it has far worse sound than Awakening, guessing due to all three games being much larger than Awakening.



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Trunkin on 21 February 2017
TallSilhouette said:
Trunkin said:

DOOM is 60gb on PC and I still don't understand why. The Witcher 3 was in the 35gb range. Ryse is the same size as The Witcher 3. Game sizes make no sense.

If I had to guess, Doom has more handmade assets where W3 has more procedural. Ryse also has lots of prerecorded video.

Hmm. I didn't know that procedural generation was used in W3, but I guess it would be a necessity due to the massive scale of the game. Ryze does have a lot of prerendered video, but the quality doesn't seem all that great, with very noticeable artifacts, so I just assumed it couldn't be all that big. Could be that I'm wrong, though. I might check the game files to see what I can see.



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m_csquare on 21 February 2017

Only 4~6 games can be fit into internal memory? Huehuehue reduce that number by 1 cos we're also gon get zelda dlc huehuehue



Eagle367 on 21 February 2017
Mr.GameCrazy said:
cycycychris said:

- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 13.4 GB
- Puyo Puyo Tetris 1.09 GB
- I Am Setsuna 1.40 GB
- Nobunaga’s Ambition 5 GB
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 7 GB
- Snipperclips 1.60 GB
- Dragon Quest Heroes I·II 32 GB (SD card required)

 

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how the heck is Snipperclips 1.6 GB.... does the game have like 160 levels or something.

32 GB for Dragon Quest Heroes I-II? Wow. That's a lot of space. I had a feeling that the Nintendo Switch game cards would hold more than 16 GB.

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Nuvendil on 21 February 2017
Trunkin said:
TallSilhouette said:

If I had to guess, Doom has more handmade assets where W3 has more procedural. Ryse also has lots of prerecorded video.

Hmm. I didn't know that procedural generation was used in W3, but I guess it would be a necessity due to the massive scale of the game. Ryze does have a lot of prerendered video, but the quality doesn't seem all that great, with very noticeable artifacts, so I just assumed it couldn't be all that big. Could be that I'm wrong, though. I might check the game files to see what I can see.

The Witcher doesn't.   The word Procedural gets tossed around in open world game discussions more than "fascist" in a tense Presidential race and just like that word, few grasp what it means in its contexts.  

When it comes to assets, very, very few games procedurally generate them.  Especially high end games.  In fact, FAST Racing Neo is the only one I can name off the top of my head.  Procedural generation in most games serves one of two functions: level creation in real time (randomized dungeon crawlers, for example) and object placement as a stwp in the process of creating hand designed levels or as a means of placing certain assets in real time (grass, usually).  The Witcher 3 falls in the latter category.

As for how it stays compact, most open world games liberally reuse prop assets, natural assets, clutter assets, and even building assets, thus keeping space saved, while other games will have an excess of unique assets for all manner of minor things.  Also, things like texture resolutions and polycounts must necessarily be kept lower so that they don't eat up resources needed for other aspects of the game.