mZuzek said:
Xenoblade X isn't good for comparison, though. Monolith is owned by Nintendo, but if you look at game file sizes, the only ones that are impressively small are the ones from Nintendo EAD themselves (e.g. DKCTF is 11GB, Smash is 16GB, and XCX is 33GB - compared to say, SM3DW being under 2GB, Splatoon being around 2GB as well, and even Breath of the Wild, as big as it is, just 13GB). Also, I'm pretty sure MK8 on the wii u isn't 8.2GB..? I remember it being around 6-7GB (just like Switch version) with the DLCs. |
Few games can be 100% linearly compared, so all of them are bad examples depending which criteria you're looking at. While EAD do usually end up with the smallest file sizes, that's in large part because of the type and/or way they make their games. If they were replicating XCX (which uses the opposite strategy to Zelda; it's a WiiU asset bonanza), i wouldn't expect the core game to get much smaller. XCX's patches exist in part because of how heavily compressed the game already is. WiiU disks have a capacity limit of 25GB, so they had to get pretty aggressive with the file.
It does make you wonder how big a PS4/X1/PC equivalent would be though. Some of the overall fat could but cut by them not needing to compress as aggressively and then giving players the option to patch, but it'd still have been a really tight squeeze. I can't think of a game on anyone of them which is as large, and utilises the sames resources balancing.
I'm not sure exactly how large MK8 is with the DLC. The original is just under 5GB, but Nintendo's website only says "Both packs require more than 2.0 GB of storage space". It's not very specific :p
