Splatoon 2 file size is reportedly only 3.1GB !

[firebush03]

RolStoppable said:

firebush03 said:

Only problem here is game preservation. If you need to download the voice lines for a physically purchased game, then do you *really* own the game? I’d opt for file bloat honestly.

Yes, you own the game. What we are talking about here is that the game would ship with English voices on the physical medium as well as be sold digitally with only the English voices while all less popular languages would be individual separate downloads.

I was thinking about that, and yeah, that’d make the most sense. If you purchase the American version, for instance, then the physical copy comes with English/Spanish in the cartridge. And if you purchase Japanese, then the physical copy comes with Japanese. If you want other language, you download them. 

curl-6 said:

firebush03 said:

Only problem here is game preservation. If you need to download the voice lines for a physically purchased game, then do you *really* own the game? I’d opt for file bloat honestly.

Sadly the ship has largely sailed in this regard; many physical releases nowadays are little more than a download key and don't actually contain the full game. It sucks, but it's just the way things are, so it's not like making languages additional downloads would change that.

That’s a fair point, I guess I forget that pretty much all PS5 games require downloads (NSW games have the benefit is being small enough to store everything on the cartridge).