Skyrim Dawnguard: DLC file size woes

Product-Reviews writes: Skyrim Dawnguard DLC and download file size concerns – We have heard from a number of our Xbox 360 readers that have tiny hard drives, or are pretty short on space right now. These users are a little concerned over the Dawnguard DLC file size, which has an install size of 581.70MB and while this is not much it does seem some gamers will have to delete a few things.

[danswayuk]

581.70MB is not bad unless you have a little Xbox 360 hard drive.

[Trebius51]

problem is a lot of 360s sold without any HD at all or the very minimum HD space like the cheapest version ... so i can imagine lots of people will be purchasing some extra space from Microsoft since they dont allow 3rd party HD sales. I got 500gigs for my PS3 for a bargain on newegg, i feel sorry for the 360 owners that have to get ripped off in order to increase their HD size.

[ricky360]

I have deleted a couple of bits it is downloading now.

[tr00p3r]

It's not hard to delete a few pointless demos to make up the space.. I'm more concerned about Bethesda selling their souls to Microsoft.

[danswayuk]

If the PS3 paid for online would you expect more exclusives?

[tdrules]

I'd expect them to encrypt my personal information

[OccludedGamer]

Really? Well you probably wouldn't have to worry about that since all important information was encrypted and on an entirely different server!

Can't believe you trolls are still trying to use the PSN hack as a reason to pay MS for services that are free everywhere else

[Tonester925]

TIMED-EXCLUSIVES

[mewhy32]

If we paid for PSN (Not plus) then I'd expect this DLC to release on both Xbox Live and PSN simultaneously. I don't blame Sony for not shelling out the cash to get this dlc first on it's FREE network. That would be stupid.

[Trebius51]

@tdrules

Lol...grasping at straws now buddy...

It was all encrypted and on a different server like he said ... no one got near any of that personal information...its just what losers like you say to feel like they have justification and ammo to continue their pointless console "war"...

[mewhy32]

@Trebius51

Well I'm not one for 'console wars' but in this instance you are very wrong. Here is a quote from the letter sent to PSN subscribers... "an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID."
Here is a link to the new report it came from.. http://www.gamasutra.com/vi...
Now if name, address, email, birthdate, psn/qriocity password and login, and psn online ID aren't personal then I don't know what is????? It was definately personal and I for one never got informed until 3 days after it had happened.

[ricky360]

One month is not much of a wait for a game like Skyrim, although I don't pay for Xbox Live gold and still get to enjoy this DLC sooner than ps3 gamers.

[deep_fried_bum_cake]

"I'm more concerned about Bethesda selling their souls to Microsoft"

It's not as if this is a new thing, Microsoft has been paying Bethesda for timed exclusivity on DLC since Fallout 3 (dunno about before then).

[Dms2012]

Oh, brother.

[ninjahunter]

500MB? Cmon, i downloaded more than that just to watch the Legend of korra Finale (which was fantastic BTW). Unless you have like a 5gb HDD(which is ridiculous) i would think this is far from something to cry about.

[DasTier]

500mb? I think right now on my hard drive BF3 takes up about 17GB. Also who has a tiny hard drive if they want to play lots of games. Common sense is needed, Just invest in a new HD or even a memory card...

[videoxgamexfanboy]

Wait!!! Is the dlc up now?

[DARK WITNESS]

Yes it is. I just bought my MS points through xbox.com and bought the dlc from the website and it's now in my download list and should be done before I get back home tonight.

quite useful for a change, wish I had taken the day off work though.

[vikingland1]

In this day and age people that work for a living and are game fanatics probably have plenty of HDD space. If not then I don't know why they would'nt upgrade unless they don't game much.

[DARK WITNESS]

Are people really complaining about this?

considering the dlc is like 10 hrs to 20 hrs long which is as long as a full game that is 3 to 4 gig, what is there to complain about.. really!!

[dazzrazz]

120GB hard drive for xbox (used) is less than $50 i dont know whats to fucking whine about

[vikingland1]

Not to mention you can use the old style in the new xbox slim also.

[segamon]

i have a 500GB HD and i still run out of space. i wanted to go for a TB but after the flood the HD price went up considerably, i hope the prices subsides soon.

@Erudito87 not here it didn't, yet. but that's a good sign if you're right. thanks for the info.

[Erudito87]

prices of hdd have gone down significantly recently

[ApolloTheBoss]

I'm more surprised that it wasn't over a GB.

[danswayuk]

I expected at least 2GB for the first Skyrim DLC.

[PooEgg]

Exactly, in fact I noticed that the Mass Effect extended ending download is larger then Dawnguard surprisingly.

Not going to complain about the size, it just means more Skyrim to love.

[DragonKnight]

500 MB? That's it? There are demos bigger than that. Suck it up kids.

[danswayuk]

I wonder what they meant by "a lot of meat" with the first Skyrim DLC, because half a GB seems tiny.

[xPhearR3dx]

Skyrim itself is only 3.8GB and look how much content is in the game. If Skyrim was a 7GB+ game and the DLC was 500MB, then I'd be worried.

[Killman]

Holy shizza, 500mb is now considered newsworthy. I wonder what this person's opinion of GT5's install, or any game install really.

Now if that was a typo and it is actually 500gb, then yes, we have a bit of a problem.

[Rupee]

You've got to be kidding me...