Titanfall is huge at the moment in terms of expectations, hype, and excitement. What's also huge, apparently, is its file size. Respawn Entertainment's Vince Zampella answered a question on Twitter yesterday regarding the size of the game on PC, and it will take up a whopping 48GB of hard drive space.
The download file for the game will be 21GB, which will then install to take up 48GB of space. If you don't have much room or already don't have enough, you should get to cleaning!
It's odd that this game takes up that much space, to be honest. Sure, it looks pretty good, but not any crazy amount better than more expansive games we've seen which take up much less. Considering it's running the older Source engine and is a multiplayer-only shooter with a handful of maps and thus no campaign (which comes with a lot of voice work, etc.) it sounds like Titanfall is a bit larger than it needs to be.
These are the minimum requirements, which make the size seem even more strange, because they're not very extreme:
- 64-bit Windows 7/8/8.1
- AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz or Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processor
- 4GB RAM
- Radeon HD 4770 or GeForce 8800GT GPU with 512MB VRAM.
The huge file size could be a lack of compression or effort to condense their files on part of the developer, or their texture and audio files are HD and just very large. Battlefield 4, with a lot of huge maps and campaign content, still only comes in at 30GB.
Fortunately for console gamers (and I expect Xbox One to be the main platform for Titanfall), Respawn followed up by stating that the game will only take up 20GB on the Xbox One, so they seem to have dodged the size issue on the console version.
Titanfall will be available for Xbox One and PC on March 11. The Xbox 360 version will be out slightly later, on March 25.