Street Fighter V’s PS4 File Size Revealed

Pure PlayStation have just found out how much hard drive space Street Fighter V will take up on your PS4.

[Eonjay]

Thats... actually not bad.

[Aloy-Boyfriend]

Can't help but worry about amount of content in this 6.9 gb pack. Maybe it's just me or the fact that is a fighting game.

[DarkOcelet]

You keep forgetting that this is the size without the story mode that will launch in june.

I think the story mode alone could be 10 gigs.

[Rookie_Monster]

@DarkIcelet,

Yup, the story mode will definitely take up a chuck of space. When Killer Instinct Season 2 got the story mode update from last Summer, it went from 6.8gb to 15gb. So I expect SFV will follow a similar size update when the Story mode is made available.

[Insomnia_84]

No way! The beta alone was 13.5 GBs!

[Knushwood Butt]

^ this

[_-EDMIX-_]

I'm not sure how much space a fighting game would really take up lol.

I don't think sizes of games in terms of gigs really tell you much about amount of content, its already known how much characters are in the game.

[3-4-5]

Fighting games usually aren't as large as others. They aren't having to render huge 3D worlds all at once.

[GloibinDookie]

Chun li's hips are 2 gigs alone. NOICE

[iain04]

Bubble up vote for bringing an epic smile to my face

[nogoodusernamesleft]

the game so tiny for a reason the graphics look like ps3 graphics. even ps3 can run this.

[sammarshall102]

@Novacorps Killer Instinct is far from dead and season 3 launches next month. You tried though

[thisgamer503]

"the game so tiny for a reason the graphics look like ps3 graphics. even ps3 can run this."

A fighting game's focus really shouldn't be on graphics anyway. That doesn't mean the game should look like a blocky mess, but I'd honestly be happy with SF4 graphics as long as we have solid framerate, story, and netplay. I think the graphics discussion this generation has gotten ridiculous. I mean, somehow I can still go back and play snes/n64 games and have a blast regardless of the graphics. Maybe it's a rare thought process, but people seem to be so hung up on 1080p vs 900p vs 4k vs 8k vs (whatever comes next) that they forget how to just play a game and enjoy it. You don't need a third party's approval to enjoy a game. Just play and enjoy people. You fanboys make me turn full fanboy every now and then and I have to walk away from my PC in shame more often than I'd like lol

[MegaMohsi]

wow 6.4gb? That's great, I hope games are getting smaller and smaller in size otherwise I need to upgrade from 1tb to 2tb sooner rather than later

[SourtreeDing]

really i had a 500gb since Launch of PS4 ive had no problem with Space...

some games i got... GTA5, Ghosts, CODAW, CODBLOps3, Witcher3,fallout,watchdogs,fif a15,16 NBA2k15, UFC, diblo3, bloodborne,Dyinglight..

honestly i just delte games i got bored of and if i need to play them again i just download it again over night or thru out the day .. never been a problem for mee

[MegaMohsi]

lately for me, arkham knight with all dlc takes up 78gb, GTA V, the Witcher 3, fallout 4 and MGS V all take up a ton of space. I have a crazy backlog of games I need to finish so I have to keep them installed. Most of them are also digital purchases and I'd rather keep them installed rather then having to download them again. Physical games I usually delete off if I'm done with it or don't have the time to play yet.

[kingPoS]

There's also ps+ games to account for. Not to mention the multi gig patches that tend to be doled out for the mutiplayer games that require them..

And then there's recording gameplay! Or in my case, realizing that 500gb just.. wasn't enough any more.

I have no regrets purchasing a 2tb for my PS4, not at all.

Gateway MT6706 2008

[_-EDMIX-_]

If you have a fast connection and its not really a hassle, help yourself.

I don't blame you. I don't get the craze of having a whole library of games available when many times most are playing around 3 games or so currently vs 40 lol

My personal opinion..see how long you can go with this set up as I personally don't believe one "needs" such space. Though I have a 1TB, I only got it due to replacing my PS3 drive and not wanting to buy 2 HDDs, I just put my old PS4 HDD in my PS3 and got a 1TB on sale.

I would have still been fine with 500GB. I deleted many PSN Plus games knowing I can just redownload them when I want to and now I just confirm the purchase of the free games and don't download them until I'm actually going to even care to play them.

[Apollosupreme]

Or you could do what I do and only keep games on there you're playing or plan to play soon. No point having a large library on a drive when you can just download again later.

[nitus10]

That is great if you don't have any caps on your Internet use.

Personally I prefer installing off physical media. Even for a 50GB game usually takes less then one hour to fully install although as I have mentioned previously with the PS4 you can be playing within a minute or two.

No matter how fast your internet is you are normally going to be limited by the storage device (ie. Hard Disk) write speed and for a 5400rpm disk that is about 22MB/sec although if you have a solid state disk (approx 540MB/sec read and write) then you are limited to your Internet or BluRay (about 27MB/sec) drive speeds.

It does get more problematic when your patch can be in the order of 17GB (eg. TW3) and that has to be done via the Internet, although this can be done in the background or overnight.

[DarkOcelet]

Dont forget the story Update is coming in June so that will most likely take a big space.

But this is a nice size for the game.

[Perjoss]

Hm story mode, just when I thought I was kinda done with 1 on 1 fighting games. As dumb as the SF story and lore is its one of the main reasons I got into it way back, all the details like how Sagat got his scar and the friendship between Ken and Ryu, I love all that stuff.

[XtraTrstrL]

I hear ya, I was gonna wait and upgrade to a 2TB. Instead I just upgraded to a 1TB SSHD a few days ago, cuz I rather the slightly faster boot-up and very slight possible performance boost of the SSHD. By the time it's about to be filled up, there'll surely be tons of pretty large games I don't touch at all and can easily delete, before feeling the need to go beyond 1TB. Put the PS4 500GB in my 120GB PS3 Slim. So, now I can start getting PS+ games on there again, though I usually only use it as a media player, until PS4's media player supports as much stuff as it.

[IamTylerDurden1]

FC Primal is only 12gb on PS4, i think they're finally putting effort into compression.

[Rookie_Monster]

Great news. That means a faster install on my PS4 when I pick it up Day One!

[Eonjay]

Installs on PS4 are almost instantaneous. Never had one more than about 15 to 30 seconds. I don't really think it can get faster.

Side note, it would be interesting to test an SSD to see if it can make the fast PS4 install times even faster.

[Articuno76]

That's because those games are installed sequentially, with parts deeper into the game installing later on as you are playing the game.

That model doesn't work as seamlessly for a fighting game where a player might jump into versus and pick any stage and any character (maybe some stages/characters/modes will be locked until the install gets around to them).

[DigitalRaptor]

Surprising.

Glad to hear though. Normally games take about 45-60 seconds to install, so this should take about 15 seconds, if my assumptions are correct.

[DragonDDark]

It takes 5 seconds for me... for a 33gb game (Naruto storm.)

[Eonjay]

Yeah I don't think people quite grasp how fast the ps4 installs games.

[nitus10]

For the PS4 you can normally play the game within a minute or two when installing from BluRay but the full install takes longer and is dependent on your storage write and the read from your BluRay device, whichever is the slower.

A good rule of thumb is to assume a 25GB/sec write to your hard disk then divide your install size by this and 60 which will give you the time in minutes to complete. As an example it would normally take about 33 to 40 minutes to fully install a 50GB game to your hard disk from your BluRay device.

Even if you had a solid state disk (approx 540MB/sec) the install time from your BluRay (approx 27MB/sec) device would not be that much different although you will notice a significant difference in loading times when playing the game.

For a 6.8GB game to fully install it would take approximately 5 minutes although I would assume you could play within 30 seconds.

[Summons75]

Nice, glad to see devs really learning how to compress so every game isn't 50+gb games.

[nitus10]

The Witcher 3 was a 35GB install, however a 17GB patch (ie. the latest) brought that upto 49GB.

Actually I am not that overly worried about a minimum install size even if it is 50GB. What is annoying is having huge patches when smaller delta patches or updates should be used.

Your your information a deta patch (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi... is one or more patches or updates that only apply to the specific parts of the software that need to be changed. This can be a binary or even source code.

[Tetsujin]

I wonder if there's application data tied to this. I'm also glad of a smaller file size so my Internet doesn't get tied up for too long.

[IamTylerDurden1]

This is just the base game though, i'm sure other downloads will be imminent. Also, there will be a lot more content on the way, i estimate by next year the total file size to be 11gb.

[Heyxyz]

That's pretty good, games that have small sizes don't get deleted from my hard drive.

On a different note, the game costs 70 Euros in Europe!? That's almost $80 American. That's crazy...I feel bad for you guys.

[Jag-T1000]

This is an incomplete game. They should of gone only digital like killer instinc. What's on the disk. Characters & Stages?

[Sm00thop]

I'm happy to get the game next week and wait for the dlc and patches. No need to rush stuff with such a big fighting game as that'll only cause problems. They could charge double and I'd still buy it lol, I've bought ps4 with arcade stick just for this game.

[higgins78]

Remember, this is PS4 and SFV combined...

After patches and DLC start arriving - SOON. This looks to be a game made exclusively to fleece us of money, releasing content which should have been available day 1. Expect the final size of said game to be something near the the 20g mark, easy!

[ColonelHugh]

Good thing we can just grind out the character unlocks for free.

[BlackTar187]

lol that's why if you're going to troll you should at least be informed. You can grind any paid characters to get them for free.

GL next round

[higgins78]

Only time will tell on this matter...

[Sm00thop]

Got my ps4 coming in the morning ready for SFV, got to wait until the 16th for the game and new arcade stick though can't wait. Been tearing up sfiv on 360 with pals to give it a last send off.

[DivineAssault]

Story mode will be bigger.. June is a long a$$ time to wait for it..

[secretcode]

Totally okay with that. Still need to replace my PS4 HDD, so this is perfect. Not like a fighting game is as resource-heavy as other genres anyway.

[maniacmayhem]

"It looks like developers have finally figured out how to keep game sizes down to a minimum on current-gen consoles"

I think the reason might be this Street Fighter isn't using anything different from Street Fighter 4.

[higgins78]

So true. It's like people this this one game is an example of keeping game sizes to a minimum on current-gen console's. First, Nintendo has been keeping file sizes low for gen after gen. Second, said game is a bad example - its releasing bare bones - upcoming DLC and patches will really bloat it out.

[Kingdomcome247]

You always feel the need to bring Nintendo up. OT: I so desperately want to enjoy fighting games again as they're such a huge part of my gaming history, but I've been hard pressed to find myself enjoying them for quite some time now, though. SF was my absolute favorite, though, so I am going to give it another shot.

[PaleMoonDeath]

Missing the days when you bought a game full price and everything was on disc. I'll just wait till the contents there.

[phoenix_dusk]

Eh it's better to enjoy it earlier considering the game will be updated freely.

[PaleMoonDeath]

God forbid my internets crappy, or no internet at all. :/

[theshredded]

This was revealed maybe a week ago, people should check the PS store more often...anyways all modern games should have smaller sizes

[bleedsoe9mm]

sure this wasn't street fighter IV ,seems small for a genre that has MK X 42gb KI S1 38gb

[Jag-T1000]

I guess you can expect a small file size since it has cartoon graphics. After all its not MK or KI. I wish street fighter would of followed that way with the graphics department. Instead of this clay animation.

[Tzuno]

Looks like PS4 has a small deck :)

[NotAFanboyyy]

If the story mode is launching in June, why not just release the game in June? Wasn't that a big criticism of Killer Instinct when it launched? A lack of story mode. Just seems that waiting 4 months to deliver the complete package day 1 is viable and a better option in my opinion.

[Jag-T1000]

The disk is pretty much a place holder. Just for the DRM can check that you bought the game. But yes, they should've just waited 4 months.

[BlackTar187]

I'm so glad they didn't wait 4 months. I'll take my online games now please. THANKS

i love the KI toss in though.

[BigGamersSmallTalk]

They say size doesn't matter..but how is this game smaller than last gen games? Why not wait until you have a beefier game to release? Seems rushed.

[Articuno76]

They are committing to a service model for the game. This structure works well for fighting games (as proven by Killer Instinct) because a dev can't put out a broken/poorly balanced game and then abandon it (and the competitive community behind it) if it stinks. They have to stick around for the entire generation.

Since new features/characters and so on are player-input dependent so it makes even more sense to release a solid core game and build around that. And keeping the character count low on release ensures everyone can keep up.

The alternative is still there for people who prefer a game with more content though: just buy it later.

[BigGamersSmallTalk]

Well the difference was that you paid only $20 for the KI at launch. Isn't Street Fighter V $60?

[Articuno76]

Keep in mind each new season of KI comes at a cost. Whereas this isn't the case for SFV. So that suggests cost in the long term will be about the same (if not cheaper) for SFV.

But what about immediate upfront cost? Now consider that SFV starts with 16 characters which IIRC is more than 3 times what KI had at launch. This makes it a bigger package worthy of the bigger upfront cost.

Looks like SFV's model is cheaper in the long-term than KI and better value up front too.

But in any case my point was about the value of a ongoing service model for fighting games regardless of how exactly that service is paid for. Both KI and SFV are going to have long, healthy scenes because of it.

[STARS]

@BGST aka crapgamer

Yeah, and you pay for the additional characters in Killer Instinct. You won't have to pay for them in SFV.

[BigGamersSmallTalk]

Seems like if they're following the smaller content to start with model, why not follow the entire model? I mean Killer Instinct did each season at $20 apiece, so by the time the third season is done you'll have 27 characters for $60. Well worth it.
Just seems odd to sell a $60 disc with so little content on it, but I could just be crazy.

[DDMNeo]

People, you need to understand that this isn't a big deal. It's a fighting game. Fighting games don't really have as many assets as a Fallout 4. There's 16 characters in the whole game (at launch), and some backgrounds. Even if there was story mode it'd be like a little over 7 gb.

[DDMNeo]

Also I bet some of the story mode is on the disc/in the initial install.

[Hakoom]

trophy list is out too
http://psntrophyleaders.com...

[WheatBread]

As long as it's under 20GB I'm fine.

[MoveTheGlow]

Cool. I completely expect this to be Splatoon-like in its free updates. I like my single-player, so I think grinding out new characters will be fun enough!

[M4DE_IN_W4LE5]

I don't know what everyone was expecting , with a feeble 16 characters at launch it wouldn't be that big .Plus ULTRA Street Fighter on PS4 too coming in at a little more with barely an upgrade in visuals im sticking with ULTRA SFIV till SFV drops in price . Business as usual

[esmittystud101]

Why do guys want more compression? Too cheap to upgrade your HDD? Well.....I'm running around 850 GB right now on my PS4 and still have alot to burn. Am I the only one that thought "six months down the road?".

[Gamist2dot0]

Do you purchase your games disc or digital. Digital will eat more HDD space because of the convenience. Of course, for both any one can delete the games and reinstall later when they want to.

[esmittystud101]

If the game offers a disc version, I buy that and not digital. I like digital and all, but the resell value is always zero on digital. My kid to this day is still playing my old Xbox 360 games, a whole box of them and has not had to have an Xbox Live account or anything to play the disc.

The discs also have some resell value down the road. But the main reason I'm talking about the 360 is because, lets say ten years down the road from now I hand me down my kid my Xbox One or PS4, which I will. If I had went full digital game purchases, would he have to have an Xbox Live account or Gold to be able to play all of them? These are questions that will never be answered until that day comes. But with discs, its kinda my insurance for later in life for the fact that I know he will be able to play them without having to have Gold or an active account.

I do like digital, I just don't like the insurance that comes with them.

[skratchy]

It's a fighting game. Of course. We're not talking about Fallout or Witcher here.

[Gaming_Since_The_80s]

6.9GB cool. So how much of that is locked DLC again?...I must have missed that part...

[esmittystud101]

I agree. I'm not expecting alot of HDD space for any fighting game to be honost. I can see huge open world games taking up alot of space and all. But indies and fighting games in general shouldn't take up much room. Which is nice for once but not a make or brake for me on a buy. If a game is 75 GB (I haven't had one yet) and I really liked the game, I would still buy without thinking twice. It will be worth it to me.