GTA5 PS5 File Size and Preload Date Revealed

The PS5 file size and preload date for GTA5 have been revealed, with the game clocking in at almost 87GB on the new-gen platform.

[boing1]

Oh, remaster will have performance RT mode? Nice!

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

Well, do I really wanna dedicate 87 gb of the 667 gb SSD towards a game two gens old?

[philm87]

I'd suggest you do this if you want to play it.

[Welshy]

@phil
In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet. Obviously he has to install it if he wants to play it.

The issue is that it's alot of space to dedicate to a game that's fundamentally the same and already been played on 2 previous generations. Unless you're both a huge GTA5 addict and a stickler for performance it's not worth it imo.

[philm87]

@Welshy I get that mate, only so many games you can play at once so it's a bit of a pointless question. Will only take 20 minutes to install/download if you've got a decent Internet connection.

[Aussiesummer]

Dedicate some money towards an nvme ssd.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

Yah, I never considered throwing hundreds of dollars at the problem.

Thanks.

[Visceral89]

You can buy a Samsung 980 pro 1TB for $150 or cheaper on sale sometimes.

[Aussiesummer]

Or just continue to complain about 667gb.

[ocelot07]

😂

[roadkillers]

My comment will get downvotes, but this issue will be resolved once the cloud is more stable. The faster we move to the cloud, the less topics like this matter.

[RickRoland]

the cloud meaning what? streaming gaming? That will not be a viable option for a very long time.

[roadkillers]

It’s viable now, Xcloud on the Series S is 99% full proof

[Aussiesummer]

The included size is abysmal.

[FanboysKiller]

Not bad actually.

[Welshy]

It's pretty bad, both next gen machines have sub-1tb storage, to dedicate a minimum of 15% of your storage to one game is ridiculous.

The whole point of the new platforms is to give devs tools to speed up and shrink their games yet they clearly just aren't doing that. It just screams of poor asset optimisation.

Cyberpunk is a total dumpster fire of a game and even they managed to reduce their file size by half on next gen.

[RickRoland]

This is why I popped a 1TB SSD into my PS5 last week. At that point where storage management is already becoming a nuisance. 2TB is pretty comfortable, 1TB or less is just not enough nowadays. I hear the PS5 version is around 10GB smaller than the X|S version though. They definitely have the compression leg up.

[FPS_D3TH]

It’s over 105 gbs on PC right now so they’ve compressed quite a bit if they’re adding new content/features too

[FanboysKiller]

That sounds like a whole new game to me , this is the real stuff that genuinely isn't for free.

[ChubbyBlade]

Someone doesn’t know how storage works

[philm87]

@Welshy The map is huge and there's a ridiculous amount of assets in the game. Should be higher res textures as well which will take up a lot of room.

[philm87]

Really enjoyed the single player on PS4, may be tempted to replay if it's only £10 for the single player as rumoured.

[Deeeeznuuuts]

Yeah, when I heard it could be £10 for the first three months that pretty much sold it for me, not played the story in a while either so be good to revisit

[CrimsonWing69]

Look if this substantially looks better than the PS3/Xbox 360 version I’ll bite.

[Welshy]

Of course it's going to look better, if they triple dip customers on 3 generations and it doesn't look head and shoulders above the OG launch then they have a serious issue on their hands.

Still doesn't justify a 3rd purchase of the same game imo, should 100% be a free upgrade to owners of the full game on PS4/Xbone. They make literal billions from shark cards, they can afford it.

[Fishy Fingers]

Watch some maxed out PC gameplay, thats what you'll be getting.

[RickRoland]

Is it though? They said they’re increasing population density etc. Did the pc version have higher NPC counts etc. originally?

[GamingSinceForever]

Wow that’s huge

[Richhard1]

Don’t forget GTA Online is free anyway.

[hiawa23]

I love you, Rockstar, but you are not getting a 4th purchase(X360, PS3, X1) from me on this game.

[RedDevils]

4th times the charm :-)

[hiawa23]

🤣😂Nope

[toyzombie]

Free upgrade?

[Bigman4k]

Nope i already own it on PS4 now available to preorder and buy on PSN for PS5 at $10 for now

[hiawa23]

Nope

[Mikeyy]

Looks like I'm going to have to invest in a SSD sooner than I wanted to, I'm out of space. I wanted to wait until atleast 2tb came down from outer space prices. Buying a 1tb is just kicking the can down the road.

I had really hoped transferring my games to my 4tb external for storage would have been a good solution, but it legit takes an hour to copy a 100gb game to it. It's faster to redownload the game.

Ugh.

[RickRoland]

I just did the same with a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro. I couldn't justify the 2TB price. I have 17 games installed including the GTAV PS5 Pre-Load and about 750GB left on the new stick. Pretty reasonable amount of games. If I have to swap out a couple in a library of 25 thats much easier to deal with than swapping out many many because the standard drive only holds like 9 titles.