The mandatory installation on PS3

[Topsu]

Considering the vast scale of the game and the speed of the PS3's BD drive, a mandatory installation when the game is launched for the first time is pretty much inevitable. GTA IV had an 3.4 GB install if I'm not mistaken, but this time it could be much bigger. And considering a Blu-Ray takes 50 GB, I don't even want to imagine how hard it must be for Rockstar to get everything working on an Xbox 360. Surely there will be more than one disc, so both consoles suffer from the size of this game.

 

How big of an install, and a wait, are you expecting? The 3.4 GBs of GTA IV took over 5 minutes, and that felt long!

[customkingpimp]

I have a 200gb ps3 and time, so I could care less.

[Grove Street Balla]

game will be 5-6 GB

[CryptReaperDorian]

I don't think it'll be anything under 6 GB. Come to think about it, I kind of liked when video games didn't require being installed to play on a Sony platform. However, I guess the improved performance is probably worth the wait.

[Jordan_Philip]

I hope it takes up all 250 gb of my system so i have a reason to clean out all the old sh*t demos a save files

[United_Stealth]

For sure bigger than IV. How much bigger? No idea

[DODI3OG]

game will be 5-6 GB

Maybe 9-10!

 

The only reason Assassin's creed 3 had 2 disks is because of the season bullsh*t! It doubled up the textures and some of the disk space!

[lazloisdavrock]

unlike the Xbox 360 which can install the entire content of the discs, the ps3 actually doesnt install everything, so the disc still needs to be spinning. (wear and tear on the optical drive) so the file size wont be that large.

[kmanmx]

Geometry doesn't really take up a lot of space at all. So ignore the map size. The only things that are going to bump up the game size significantly are an increase in the amount of textures used due to the amount of landscape, sound, and the higher amount of weapon and vehicle models.

 

So it's potentially only 25 to 50% larger. Not to mention I believe microsoft and sony have introduced new developer tools and OS updates to support higher levels of game compression.