WiiU Tekken Tag is 16.7GB download

[sergiodaly]

thekitchensink said:

sergiodaly said:
what is takken tag?
you need to fix the tittle...

why is this some kind of news? we all know that the game disc for wii U holds up to 25 GBs and that some games these days are that big... so no surprise that most of the DL version of retail games won't fit the internal memory. use it for small games and save files... that was what i would do if i was going to buy a wii U.

It's still really wierd because the game fits on one Xbox 360 disc.  I have trouble believing that the extra Nintendo costumes and possibly higher-resolution textures would nearly double the amount of space the game takes up.

it must be because of uncompressed assets to improve performance. if space ain't a issue devs tend to use it to make the game runs better...nintendo fans were all over the place with the chance of having a 3TB HDD, so 17 instead of 9 its not a issue.

the xbox version  is smaller because of compression of assets, most games are single threaded and xbox has 3 cores so they can use one of them to uncompress stuff and the memory architecture is flexible to manage this things, besides people are already used to wait for loading page this gen, and in a new platform devs like to minimize the loading time to give people the feeling of a new era of gaming.