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curl-6 on 19 August 2013
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the_dengle said:
the-pi-guy said:

Not really much to compare that to, though.  I mean older games were much much smaller.  If you've ever played Super Mario RPG, that game is pretty large, and it's on only 4 MB of storage.  Super Mario All Stars had 4 games and it probably was only 4 MB also, maybe even less.

LittleBigPlanet is only about 2 GB also.

If older games should be smaller (and of course they should be), why are Wii U smaller than a lot of Wii games? Why is NSMBU smaller than Donkey Kong Country Returns on Wii? They ought to have about the same amount of content.

Maybe I spoke too soon with the Wii U, as Nintendo has very few games on it yet. But their achievements compressing 3DS games are easy to compare.

Maybe Sony is also good at compressing games, how should I know? It would be tough to compare directly by number of levels, as I don't know how you could measure the "size" of the levels, but I'm pretty sure NSMBU has over 80, not counting Challenge Mode -- do you know how many LBP has?

For comparison, here's the size of many high profile Wii and 3DS games

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/386209/features/just-how-much-space-do-nintendos-games-take-up/