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bonzobanana on 20 May 2017
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Ganoncrotch said:
bonzobanana said:

Third party cartridges tend to be smaller than first party games because the first party will put on a profit  for the cartridge and it tends to make third party publishers go towards a smaller size. I thought the special edition was up at 22GB and Legendary was at 12GB but I guess it will vary by the format. It wouldn't surprise me if Skyrim was on a 8GB cartridge rather than the maximum possible currently 16GB but we shall see. I'm certainly hoping they will use 16GB.

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/nintendo-switch-game-sizes-revealed-dragon-quest-heroes-is-a-whale

16 isn't the biggest, not sure where you got that from, it's early days yet for the system though, will just have to sit and see how those 3rd parties come out.

I stand corrected on the maximum size but going by past history third parties normally always go for smaller capacity cartridges where possible. Dragn Quest is a huge franchise in Japan. As for Skyrim I did already state by format and the xbox one and ps4 are 22gb

http://wccftech.com/skyrim-special-edition-size-revealed/

Maybe with the pc's superior cpu resources the files are stored more heavily compressed. PS3 often had larger file sizes due to support of high quality 7.1 soundtracks and high quality pre-rendered 1080p video so perhaps that is another possible factor. Both ps4 and xbox one are pretty gutless cpu wise.