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Witcher 3 Uses A Neat Way To Save Game On PS4, Huge File Size Can Easily Max Out PS+ Cloud Storage

GearNuke: "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an ambitious open world Action RPG that utilizes the full potential of the hardware in the PS4. Sadly its save system can be too demanding on the hard drive, and can result in some issues especially for the 1 GB limited cloud save storage for the PS+ users."

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thejigisup3658d ago (Edited 3658d ago )

Definitely not using full ps4 potential. I def won't be putting this in my cloud storage. I have usb storage if i need to save this anywhere other than my hdd

Palitera3658d ago (Edited 3658d ago )

It is a PC game. The ridiculously bad UI pretty much proves it. The text is barely readable (I had to move my PS4 to another room because it was terrible trying to read stuff on a 42 screen) and the UI is insanely bad (slow, based on tooltips, no shortcuts etc) and its "Windows 8" vibe is probably bad even on PC. They couldn't have added a proper list with details for their hundreds of thousands of similar items, could they? No... They have to put snapshots of everything instead of decent stats.
Wanna know the difference between the apple and the apple juice and the roasted apple and the toasted apple? Put your cursor above.
They are far from the top tier of devs.
Also performance is a joke on the PS4. Seriously, they have a PS4 to program for and can't even achieve 30 FPS?

The game is great, but their coding skills... Ugh.

iistuii3658d ago

Yeah I'm struggling to read anything, especially in my inventory.

OrangePowerz3658d ago

Agree on the text size, but besides of that I don't have issues with the UI. The framerate is ok, I haven't encountered any huge framerate drops yet either. There are some fluctuations, but nothing huge yet for me.

Hellsvacancy3658d ago

At least I now know it's not my eye site, I literally moved my room around yesterday so I could get a bit closer to my tv 42'

The text is small

Lucreto3658d ago

I hope at E3 they increase it to 10gb.

I filled up over half just on Dragon Age.

freshslicepizza3658d ago

don't know why they shouldn't. google, microsoft and amazon all offer more for free too. so does dropbox. anyone who is a member of plus should be getting 10gb.

dantesparda3658d ago

Yeah, it is definitely to small (the cloud storage space). LittleBigPlanet 3 alone is 568.4MBs and Driveclubs replay and ghost saves only are over 300MBs combined (that's not even counting the game progress/save file and Apotheon is over 300MB. So those 3 games alone are over a gig. And then every games save file is at least 10.49MB or bigger except for a few games that actually have a 3.15MB size file. Its ridiculously wasteful in terms of HDD space and cloud storage space. I've already run out of cloud storage space. And I never ran out on the PS3 with well over a hundred games save files.

Malacath3658d ago

The ps4 save system is flawed.

Most game saves in all games have a minimum save size of around 10.46MB.

The tiny 1GB cloud fills up in no time.

My cloud filled up ages ago and it's because of this I stopped buying multiplatform games on ps4.

I bought the xbox one version of witcher and my 5 manual saves plus 3 autosaves have only taken a total of 2.3MB of hard drive space. I'm quite sure that if i had bought the ps4 version I would have used around 100MB with same amount of saves.

Sony not only needs to reduce the minimum save file size but increase cloud space as well.

They should have infinite cloud space like the xbox one has.

OrangePowerz3658d ago

You stopped buying games because of cloud save data storage space? :D

The storage space should be increased to unlimited, but I don't see a direct issue with the save game size in itself if they change the cloud storage space it's all fine.

Malacath3658d ago

The issue is saves filling the HDD as well as the cloud.

As all games are installed to hdd even disc ones the last thing i need is saves taking loads of space.

Being limited to 2TB doesnt help either as thats the biggest hdd i could find that fits the ps4. With game installs and large save files I could quite easily fill that if I kept buying multiplatform games on ps4.

OrangePowerz3658d ago (Edited 3658d ago )

The save games aren't that big. I have well over 60 games, obviously not all installed anymore but still all the save games, and the total amount of save game data take up around 7GB. While 7GB might sound big in relation to the amount of games it's miniscule. The save games can be backed up on USB storage and most cheap USB keys have nowadays well above 7GB of space.

Backing up on USB flash drives is also safer since it doesn't require an internet connection.

OrangePowerz3658d ago

The article itself paints a bit of an incorrect picture on save file sizes for The Witcher 3. The Witcher 3 save games are 16.7MB in size. The article makes comparisons to Bloodborne that has 37MB for a single save.

Other games use way larger save games, Trials Fusion 104MB, Game of Thrones 67MB, Octodad 73MB. The 16MB are barely above the 10MB that save files most games have.

captainexplosion3658d ago

One thing I really hope is announced at E3 is more cloud storage.

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All major 2025 gaming anniversaries

There are many 2025 gaming anniversaries to celebrate, including Life is Strange, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Super Mario Bros.

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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for August

Embark on a legendary dark fantasy adventure, mix tech and monsters for thrilling hunts, build a community of woodland worshippers, compete in two-wheeled races and more with August’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup!

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Wild Hearts, Cult of the Lamb, Ride 5 and more titles are playable from August 20 for PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium members*.

We’re also announcing new classics – including the legendary TimeSplitters series – and PS VR2 game offerings coming to PlayStation Plus Premium

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Einhander1972283d ago (Edited 283d ago )

This is a great month for me, I have almost bought Wild Hearts a ton of times and same for Cult of the Lamb.

Some really good variety here, and some serious playtime on offer here with all the RPG's. Good luck finishing all these games in a month heh.

Time Splitters is fantastic on the classic side, and glad to see they keep supporting PSVR2 with games

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TheEroica283d ago (Edited 283d ago )

Really grateful I had the good sense to drop pay to play multi-player. It's a rip off.

Einhander1972283d ago

At least when you buy the basic PS+ tier you actually get new games often including AAA games.

This month PS+ got the Star Wars Skywalker Saga, Five Nights at Freddy's:: Security Breach, and Ender Lilies

Xbox hasn't gotten any new games for their basic tier since July and before that it was in August 2023. And if that wasn't bad enough the games they got were just recycled from game pass.

TheEroica282d ago

14 people downvoted and enjoy paying for something millions of pc gamers get for free. Lol.

seanpitt23283d ago (Edited 283d ago )

They could have included the dlc for the Witcher 3 game of the year addition geez..

How many times do they want to keep putting WD2 on

Einhander1972283d ago

PS+ 17 games this month unlike game pass which only offered 7 almost half of them I got years ago on PS+,.and the rest are indies from companies I haven't even heard of.

And the Sony Pictures movie collection will probably get updated with new movies and shows from Crunchy Roll too.

Not bad for a subscription that costs significantly less game pass even before they raised the prices.

crazyCoconuts283d ago

Still not as good as it was a year ago. I think they're walking back on the quality of games just like XBGP is. It's a good thing though...ppl gotta start buying games again.

darthv72283d ago

For me, the redeeming titles are the Time Splitters ones. Sadly i do not subscribe to premium, only extra.

VersusDMC283d ago

Well you can still buy them. PS2 titles range from 5 (the clone wars) to 20 (tomb raider legend). So it may be a good price.

Becuzisaid283d ago

I'd bet these are in the expensive side. People have been wanting some kind of timesplitters remaster for a long time now.

pwnmaster3000283d ago

I thought it was a pretty good month, then I saw time splitter. It made it so much better. I always wanted to play this game but never did

Deeeeznuuuts283d ago

Not the best month for me other than timesplitters!! Can't wait to replay them again, be nice if they have trophies too but no danger of they don't, can't wait!

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23 Best PlayStation 4 RPGs

The PS4 suffers from no shortage of great RPGs. From expansive open world ventures to fully realized fantasy offerings, there's a lot to try.

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