Helldivers 2 is only 25GB on the PlayStation 5

John Elden Ring

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Comparassion with the PC version:

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Evilnemesis8

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Excellent. Looks like a hell of a game for such a low footprint.

High Fidelity for sure but at the same time I can see how its done. You've got your spaceship and you land on planets which are the levels and they're probably not that big to keep the gameplay fast paced.

Sometime less is more.
 

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100 GB on PC vs 25 GB on PS5!? Whatโ€™s going on here!
 

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Kraken is available to PC devs too, no?
Yeah I suppose, but it doesn't work the same as PS5 which has hardware kraken decompression that loads directly into memory built in the system. PC definitely doesn't have that. It's why PS5 games are smaller than Xbox games, but 100 to 25 is quite a big difference, so I figured there are also likely higher fidelity assets in the PC version.

All just a guess though, I could be completely wrong.
 

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Yeah I suppose, but it doesn't work the same as PS5 which has hardware kraken decompression that loads directly into memory built in the system. PC definitely doesn't have that. It's why PS5 games are smaller than Xbox games, but 100 to 25 is quite a big difference, so I figured there are also likely higher fidelity assets in the PC version.

All just a guess though, I could be completely wrong.

Indeed, the I/O subsystem allows the devs to compress the PS5 version more aggressively, but still, it is a huge difference.

Maybe PC assets are 8K or something lol
 
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Yurinka

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Weird to see such difference between the PS5 and PC versions. I understand that PS5 has the compression, but still seems a huge difference. Maybe the PS version is going to have a meaty day one update?