'Titanfall' will require a titan-sized amount of storage space

[itsmebryan]

On a PC I wouldn't care. On the XB1 however...

It's only 20GB on XBox One.

 

[Guest]

Wow, 1Tb for under $500 huh?

I can't believe there are a gazzilion comments and I'm the first to see that overtype.

Hoo needs to proofreed? nah, knot Techsput.

 

[hopgop1]

I don't have hard drive space as my main concern but downloading it on my terrible internet (around 200 kb/s on downloads) ughhhh...

 

[wastedkill]

1TB for less than $500... in 1999 a 1TB might have cost $500 but we are waaaaay past that now....

 

[dennis777]

Good luck on downloading this with my average internet connection is 1MB T_T

 

[Burty117]

This wouldn't be much of a problem for me, my worry is, that's a lot of data, I hope there is a lot of game to go with it, BF4 is reasonably compact considering it's graphics fidelity and the game itself has a fair few maps and a (admit-ably rubbish) single player, While CoD Ghosts doesn't have much in the way of graphics fidelity or much in the way of big maps etc... yet takes up more space? Either Titanfall has a sh*t ton of maps and big ones at that and they've put a lot of content in there or it's just not very optimized like CoD Ghosts.

I have Fibre 80Mb down and plenty of hard drive space, that's not my problem, my issue with this is it just sounds terribly un-optermized if it only includes like 10 maps...

 

[Emexrulsier]

I don't care plenty of storage (easily 10tb) and will take a whole 35 minutes to download whoopie do.

I remember in the 90s buying a 1.7Gb Harddrive for about $250 and the receipt showed 17Gb Hardrive and I took it to school to show off that I had bought a 17Gb drive

 

[Adhmuz]

The sheer size would suggest multiple texture files depending on resolution and GPU strength, would it then not be possible to have the option to download the correct texture pack for your hardware. Say someone with a low end system could save lot's of space not downloading all the high res textures they'll never use, and high end system wouldn't download the low res textures saving some space at least. However it could also be as pointed in another comment, the game isn't very well optimized.

 

[herpaderp]

"users with smaller solid state drives may not have enough room........One can now purchase a 1TB drive for less than $500 or a 240GB SSD for under $140."

For those clowns who missed the context and wonder why they said 1TB now cost under $500.

 

[Camikazi]

1TB for less than $500... in 1999 a 1TB might have cost $500 but we are waaaaay past that now....

They are talking about SSDs, maybe a tiny bit hard to follow but with a second or 2 of focus and reading you should understand that.

 

[RH00D]

One thing no one mentioned, the increase file size could also point to higher fidelity audio as well. High bitrate/uncompressed audio can also chew through space very quickly.

 

[Capaill]

Well I've only got SSDs in my PC so I have no choice but to install the game to an SSD.
I have much larger storage out on my network but I prefer to leave programs on the SSD.
It's easy to manage games with Steam as I can install and uninstall them easily. It hasn't been a problem yet.

 

[Guest]

Gosh, I'm relieved after read the title again.. Titanfall will require a titan-sized storage space.. at the first time I read, I thought Titanfall will require an nvidia Titan gpu
..but yeah, 48 GB still a problem when you got very limited free space

 

[wastedkill]

They are talking about SSDs, maybe a tiny bit hard to follow but with a second or 2 of focus and reading you should understand that.

I was taking the cheesecake from the child...

ANYWAY Titanfall is amazing All hail the titanfall.

 

[DKRON]

All hail titanfall! but seriously where was this 1TB SSD for under $500 found? I want a piece of that, cant find one for under $700

 

[GeforcerFX]

All hail titanfall! but seriously where was this 1TB SSD for under $500 found? I want a piece of that, cant find one for under $700

SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE1T0BW 2.5" $510 on newegg
Crucial M500 960GB SATA 2.5" 7mm $470 on newegg

 

[DDG4005]

This is why I still use mechanical hard drives in my PCs. SSDs simply do not have the capacity to hold a collection of games with huge footprints. Speed is one thing but space matters as well.

 

[LNCPapa]

This is why I use a combination of SSDs and mechanical HDDs in my gaming rig along with junctions so I can freely move installed game folders around without issue. I keep about 300GB of games installed on my SSD and a good bit more on my mech drive. Too bad I don't have time to play any of them anyway.

 

[Gopal Bhat]

Games on an SSD. No way. I wouldn't. Not in a desktop anyway as you've got ample redundant 7200rpm drives which will offer similar performance.
The performance gain is simply marginal. Especially in an online title where you have to wait for others to load the map too before you can start.

 

[Burty117]

Yeah I use a 240GB SSD (Corsair Neutron GTX) for Windows and games that are slow to load to make them MUCH faster (BF4, Natural selection 2) and a 1TB Western Digital VelociRaptor for the rest and then a separate drive (2TB Black) for all my music etc...

I have found some games just don't benefit from SSD's either because they are already incredibly well optimized (Borderlands 2, Mass Effect 3, WoW) or just take a while to load regardless (Mass Effect 2).

But some games seriously improve with an SSD (BF4, Sims 3, Natural Selection 2).

I tend to only keep games I play lots of (Battlefield mainly) on my SSD and everything else on the VelociRaptor.

 

[Dancovich]

And remember folks, that is without a singleplayer component...

It does have a campaign with NPC's and voice-acted scenes. The fact that you play this campaign with other people online doesn't make the content smaller.