The pre-order page for Batman: Arkham Knight has revealed that the game will require a minimum of 49 GB of space to install the game. It’s also worth noting that this does not include space required for game patches and DLC.
The Last of Us: Remastered’s street date has been broken by retailers, with photos of physical copies of the game appearing online. The game is just over a week away from release, but the packshot reveals that the game will require 50GB of space on the PS4’s hard disk. The game officially releases on the PS4 on July 29th 2014.
Both the PS4 and Xbox One require to install games on the consoles, but you’ll be surprised just how vast the difference in install times are between the two consoles. A video from Kotaku compares the PS4 and Xbox One in installing Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, of which the results are astonishing. The PS4 takes just 42 seconds to install, while the Xbox takes almost 6 minutes with no updated, and a massive 10 minutes with downloading patches.
Mark Cerny has provided some clarity on just how the mandatory game installations on Sony’s upcoming PS4 console will work. As you may have already read, games will install large amounts of data to the PS4’s hard drive, but Cerny has clarified that all games will install data, but it won’t be deleted automatically.
PS4 launch title and one of the first games in the Instant Game Collection, Resogun, has been confirmed to be “well under a gigabyte” by Finnish developer HouseMarque. The game runs at glorious 1080p resolution at 60fps and is pushing the boundaries of console games explains the developer.
Following news on the minimum hard disk space needed by PS4 games, it turns out that the space isn’t needed for actual data, but for caching of game files. The data is installed and deleted in the background, so you won’t have to sit through long installations or lose valuable hard drive space.
Following tweets about Knack‘s PS4 install size and Killzone: Shadow Fall‘s installation size, we have confirmation on how much space both games will take based on the game’s box art. The back cover for Knack shows that the game requires 37 GB of space at the minimum, while Killzone: Shadow Fall requires a massive 45 GB, despite what Guerrilla Games has said in the past.
Following the install size requirements for Killzone: Shadow Fall and Call of Duty: Ghosts, it looks like the installation size for PS4 launch title, Knack, has also been revealed. According to twitter user JoshLMusic, the game needs 37 GB of space on the PS4’s hard drive.
