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Barozi on 02 November 2014
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JEMC said:
Barozi said:
JEMC said:

I would agree with you regarding third party games (specially FF games or MGS), but we're talking about a Nintendo console that will live mostly by Nintendo games.

I really, really doubt we'll see next gen a Nintendo game that need more than 50GB.

Well Smash Wii was one of the biggest Wii games, let's see how big the WiiU one is gonna be.
Zelda U might give another hint.
Bayonetta 1+2 is over 32GB.

Doesn't look impossible to me.

You're talking about 2 games. To give examples of other Nintendo games:

  • Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze_ 11.3GB
  • Mario Kart 8_ less than 5GB
  • Super Mario World 3D_less than 2.5 GB
  • Zelda Wind Waker HD_ again less than 2.5 GB

I know that Nintendo games aren't graphical powerhouses, that they look good because mostly because of their art style, but even with that Nintendo knows how to make their games small.

But you only wanted one game to be more than 50GB, so how does listing others that are far below 50GB help your point?

Actually looking at Tropical Freeze you have to admit that this is quite a lot, considering WiiU isn't that much above the 360, where the maximum available amount on a disc used to be 6.8GB (2005-2011) until they started to up that limit by 1GB and started using 2 discs for several games.

There is still room for increased file sizes in this gen and certainly even more next gen.