Why do games require more space on a console than they do on PC?

Boots27 · Apr 15, 2016

So here's something that's been bugging me since the release of the next gen consoles, why do games require and take more Hard drive space on console than they do on PC? A game that is an example of this is Fallout 4. On my PC, it takes up 25GB, but on my friends PS4 it take up 40GB. I really can't see why the game would be bigger on the PS4.

tothergnome · Apr 15, 2016

It's the way the disks are manufactured. Blue Ray files take a lot of space.

king3pj · Apr 15, 2016

tothergnome :

I'm not sure there is a such thing as blu-ray files. Blu-rays are just storage media the same way a flash drive is. You can store any type of file you want on it. Also, the disc is only used to install the files to the hard drive. After, installation the disc is never used again except to verify that you haven't given the game to a friend or traded it in.

It's not all that different to the way the disc based PC version would be handled. The main difference is that there is no CD key to tie to your Xbox Account so you are required to put the disc in every time you play.

According to Eurogamer Fallout 4 is 26.28GB on Fallout 4, which is almost identical to what the OP said the PC version used.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-11-10-fallout-4-takes-a-while-to-install-on-ps4-and-xbox-one

This is probably just a case of Bethesda overestimating the amount of required space on the box of the PS4 box. The same thing happens for recommended PC specs all the time.

Boots27 · Apr 15, 2016

king3pj :

tothergnome :

I'm not sure there is a such thing as blu-ray files. Blu-rays are just storage media the same way a flash drive is. You can store any type of file you want on it. Also, the disc is only used to install the files to the hard drive. After, installation the disc is never used again except to verify that you haven't given the game to a friend or traded it in.

It's not all that different to the way the disc based PC version would be handled. The main difference is that there is no CD key to tie to your Xbox Account so you are required to put the disc in every time you play.

According to Eurogamer Fallout 4 is 26.28GB on Fallout 4, which is almost identical to what the OP said the PC version used.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-11-10-fallout-4-takes-a-while-to-install-on-ps4-and-xbox-one

This is probably just a case of Bethesda overestimating the amount of required space on the box of the PS4 box. The same thing happens for recommended PC specs all the time.

When you go into the storage management on the ps4 and look at how big the games are, it say's fallout 4 is >40GB big. I'm not saying that they are wrong and my best guess is that the PS4 has simply reserved around 40GB for the game.

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