Why does a tiny 400 MB PS4 game need a massive 200 MB save file?

How come tiny PS4 indie games require such massive game save files?

[uth11]

How does Rocket League pull off only 440Mb when some of these indies that have 8 or 16-bit style graphics are a full Gb in size? Clearly some people need to learn to optimize!

[SamPao]

Because there is not much content. 1 car, one environment? Or is there more at the moment?

[BiggCMan]

The beta is 400mb with 1 environment and 1 car. The full game will have like a dozen of each and will surely be 2 or 3 gigabytes.

[ChronoJoe]

Most 2 dimensional games use very high quality assets because they're not especially resource intensive. Therefore they're often several GB, because of these relatively uncompressed assets.

It's not usually a matter of needing to 'learn to optimise' as you put it, but delivering a better quality experience to the consumer.

[2pacalypsenow]

they need to give us more PS+ cloud storage or lower the size of Saved Files I'm already out of space :-/

[Summons75]

They could just give us the option to save games to an external hard drive as well as the upgrade...

[Peace_Love_and_FPS]

You can, USB data storage. Game save files only though.

[TFJWM]

I've been "out of space"(over the limit) on the saves for years and I never lost any

[Eonjay]

Thats nothing. There are some insane PlayStation file sizes in excess of 1GB. Truly crazy stuff.

[OrangePowerz]

What files are you talking exactly about?

[Nicaragua]

The insane ones clearly.

[OrangePowerz]

Ahhh the insane ones, silly me :D

[ThanatosDMC]

Yup. Poor optimization. Probably saving the whole state of the game online. Lol. Same deal with some steam games.

[BlackTar187]

THIS GAME IS AWESOME

Was a doubter and now i'm a huge fan. PLEASE SPEED UP RELEASE.

[WeAreLegion]

I'm just glad this team is getting the recognition they deserve.

[RealFry]

I was interested in looking this game up on the store to find its not out yet, it's in BETA.The author could've mentioned it atleast once in the article.

[deathtok]

There is only one answer: the developer has not taken the time to properly optimize save functionality. It may be the result of having to wrap up the project.

Save files should simply save key data points (# points, locations, etc.). That type is data is very small so they're likely saving lots of unnecessary data.

[Rebel_Scum]

Yeah I'm hazarding a guess that they're saving the state of the entire database for the game at that point.

[Skate-AK]

Yeah the Apotheon save is huge. Took a huge chunk out if my cloud save space.

[lockedongamer1]

Pretty ridiculous!

[Cra2yey3]

That's the least of my worries. I want to know why my ps4 turns into a jet engine when i play the game and goes quiet as soon as I leave it. That to me is more ridiculous.