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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Switch Ver. file size will be 14.3GB

Zkuq on 01 October 2017

Since the discussion has focused so much on size comparisons, I decided to look up the size of the PS4 version as well. The European version (in case it makes any difference) is a whopping 32.4 GB, or 2.7 times the size of the PC version! At this point, if I had to guess, I'd say you get only one language on PC, whereas you get all the languages on consoles, whether you want them or not. Otherwise this seems really bizarre.



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Nuvendil on 01 October 2017
Ganoncrotch said:
Nuvendil said:

Cutscenes in Skyrim aren't really cutscenes.  You're just stuck in place in the game world.  The scenes playout in no greater fidelity than gameplay.  So they are no more demanding than gameplay and also don't have the kind of transitions needed to mask a switch to prerendered graphics.

Yeah I've seen the intro movie and was thinking "that would be pointless/impossible since your character has to be there" but was thinking there might be stuff later like I said with cut aways to a different scene, I'm sure digital foundry will be taking the iso of the game apart while I put on my master sword and Wizards hat and cut up all 14.3GB of this thing next month :D

It is unusual.  It could be language files as Zkuq said, but then it should be bigger.  I can't immagine it's assets, too much time is needed to swap assets for it to be a viable strategy for handheld mode.



Scoobes on 01 October 2017
Ganoncrotch said:
Nuvendil said:

Cutscenes in Skyrim aren't really cutscenes.  You're just stuck in place in the game world.  The scenes playout in no greater fidelity than gameplay.  So they are no more demanding than gameplay and also don't have the kind of transitions needed to mask a switch to prerendered graphics.

Yeah I've seen the intro movie and was thinking "that would be pointless/impossible since your character has to be there" but was thinking there might be stuff later like I said with cut aways to a different scene, I'm sure digital foundry will be taking the iso of the game apart while I put on my master sword and Wizards hat and cut up all 14.3GB of this thing next month :D

Thinking back to when I played the game through I can't think of any. You're always in the scene in the game world, there isn't any real difference to normal gameplay in terms of fidelity and I think you can always switch to 3rd person mode in the cut-scenes. It would be odd for them to put in video and restrict the player.  




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