Now the question is, did they leave some of the dlc on disc like last time, or are they gonna avoid datamining this time? The later would mean the size of the free dlc will be bigger, but the final size of the game will probably still be less than 10GBs.

-Lonely_Dolphin

No, the tech and design of their games often just lends itself to small file sizes. They also have a direct financial incentive to keep their games small (limited internal memory on the Switch and WiiU, and expensive data costs for Switch cartridges), so are a lot more aggressive with compression than the average developer.

Nice, though a newer Switch model still needs more storage space :p

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Like Jesus, how much of a fanboy did someone have to be to factor in the filesize of something as a direct correlation of the quality of the final product?

If anything, isn't it considered more impressive when a game's filesize is extremely small? People were raving Animal Well and that game is less than 40MB.

Research documents on the cure for cancer that is like a couple of MBs? Worthless. 1000 yottabytes worth of porn? Sign me the hell up!!!

It comes down to graphics, textures, game type....
obviously a game with a semi-open world, massive compaired to the small pvp arena's in splatoon (comparative to).... will take up more space.

Then the models themselves:



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Theres a reason theres differnce sizes between the games.
Its not about "good design equals small file sizes".

Its the type of game, and the texture quality, and size of the game world ect.
Uncharted has voice acting... in multiple languages.

Do the inklings speak? how many dialog lines do they have ect ect.
Theres differnces between these two games.


I'm not saying a bigger size game, is harder to make, or better.
But yeah..... Uncharted took lot more work to do, than Splatoon 2 imo.






"If anything, isn't it considered more impressive when a game's filesize is extremely small? People were raving Animal Well and that game is less than 40MB."

Not really.
That says your gameplay and gameplay loop have to be good, because everything else isn't up to par.
Animal Well, almost looks like it could run on a SNES.

Had it come out 1991, it would have been super impressive in all aspects.
Today, Animal well is just a good indie game, where gameplay proves it didn't need super graphics to win many hearts.

Also alot of SNES games are like 10-20 MB.
I would say some of the bigger rpgs on the snes are much more impressive for all they pack in there, than Animal Well's 40mb size is.

However with todays insane standards and games being like 100 GB.... a new game releaseing that small is a eye opener.
The tradeoff is it looks like a snes game.

Now that is what I call realistic game size. Now lets look at cod which is like 3.1 terabytes.

Both AMD and Nvidia are working on a "Neural Texture Block Compression system" (amd's term, nvidia call theirs Random-Access Neural Compression).

A.I backend servers, used to compress textures. Which can then be used, normally and supposedly without additionally taxing the system.... resulting in smaller install sizes, and less video ram taken up.


"In its latest announcement, the AMD says it’s developed a new method of compressing game textures using a neural network. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the AMD GPUOpen account stated that “nobody likes downloading huge game packages,” adding that its new AI texture compression technique would result in “reducing data size.”"

"Not only that, but AMD is confident that developers could get the new system up and running in games quickly and easily. “Unchanged runtime execution allows easy game integration,” says the company. "


"Textures are one of the areas that take up a lot of space in game installs, particularly as gamers demand higher resolutions with more detail, and if the textures from AMD’s new compression system maintain enough detail, and take up less space than current textures, then it could indeed reduce the size of game installs."


I would love to see tech like this, used to cut game downloads and installs in half or less.
Cuz yes, games are getting too big in size.