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[Draugoth]

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has the largest file size of any first party Nintendo Switch game, even coming in larger than its predecessor Breath of the Wild

As spotted by Reddit user Bob (below) and confirmed on the Nintendo eShop, the base file size of Tears of the Kingdom comes in at 18.2 GB.

While this is still a small number in comparison to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series games, which can often use upwards of 100 GB of storage, it's enough to put Tears of the Kingdom atop the list of first party Switch games.

Breath of the Wild was once the largest first party Switch game by a long shot at 14.4 GB, though other Nintendo first party titles have since brushed shoulders with it such as Xenoblade Chronicles 3 at 14.38 GB and Fire Emblem Engage at 12.68 GB.

The larger file size certainly indicates that Tears of the Kingdom will be a bigger game than Breath of the Wild and other first party Switch titles, evidenced further by Nintendo giving it a $69.99 price tag.

 

[GymWolf]

4k textures confirmed.

 

[Kuranghi]

Pretty mad, bizarre and non-sensical comparison but I downloaded a 10 hour long 4K 50fps youtube video of a static shot of a fireplace yesterday and it was 88GB lol These nintendudes are certainly efficient

 

[Physiognomonics]

Because of VA?

 

[Punished Miku]

Im happy I got the 1 TB card since digital is the only way to use their voucher.

 

[Evil Calvin]

That's a lot for DLC

 

[Robb]

Hopefully due to a lot of new content! Can’t wait to jump back in to Hyrule

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Yes. Is is their biggest game ever. Safe to assume that applies to resources spent on it, marketing dollars around it, development team size, QA resources spent, on down the line… and yeah, game file size itself.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Hopefully due to a lot of new content! Can’t wait to jump back in to Hyrule

Well given it’s been in development for over 5 years... Yeah, I’d say that pretty much goes without saying!

 

[lughnasadh123]

Those extra gigs are gonna cost ya.

 

[Zekra Dezivad]

That's wholly 0.26 gigs for dollar!

 

[K' Dash]

That's a lot for DLC

Much less than Ragnarok and Forbidden West, if we're talking DLC.

 

[Gudji]

4k textures confirmed.

 

[Musashipan]

What was BOTW in comparison?

 

[chromhound]

And they're charging more lol

 

[dotnotbot]

Inc

 

[ADiTAR]

BotW was 13.4GB. Doesn't mean much.

 

[tkscz]

Isn't Super Smash Brothers Ultimate bigger than that?

 

[EverydayBeast]

At one point a GB use to be a lot than developers unlocked new strengths.

 

[SportsFan581]

Poor optimization, if they can't fit it on an NES cartridge they aren't working hard enough.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has the largest file size of any first party Nintendo Switch game, even coming in larger than its predecessor Breath of the Wild

Hahahahaha

Red dead redemption 2 and The last of us 2... Need two blu-ray to install them.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

That's a lot for DLC

Expansion... Sounds better

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

And what good is it if 83% is copy paste from BOTW.?

That reminds me of the nonsense that Eiji Aonuma said at the launch of Twilight princess, saying that it was the most gigantic game ever, and it was only a 1.4 GB disc .

 

[Big Baller]

 

[acm2000]

going by that last trailer i failed to see where that extra 3.8GB went

 

[ADiTAR]

going by that last trailer i failed to see where that extra 3.8GB went

You should see the leak. Many new enemies, new characters, towns, and probably dungeons.

 

[acm2000]

You should see the leak. Many new enemies, new characters, towns, and probably dungeons.

i mean i should hope so, its totally not a dlc that got turned into a full fledged sequel, nope.

 

[ADiTAR]

i mean i should hope so, its totally not a dlc that got turned into a full fledged sequel, nope.

Even if it was, I would gladly go back to Hyrule with updates.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Thats a lot of MB's for 720p assets.

 

[Mr Branding]

The DLC narrative is getting old by this point. Can’t wait to check you guys upon release.

 

[ADiTAR]

The DLC narrative is getting old by this point. Can’t wait to check you guys upon release.

None of them are buying the game anyway.

 

[Spukc]

Thats a lot of MB's for 720p assets.

not sure that's 720p but okay

 

[hemo memo]

BotW was 13.4GB. This is just a copy with extra stuff. So 18.4GB minus 13.4GB you get 5GB. So yeah just 5GB of extra content.

Spoiler

It is a joke if it is not obvious

 

[ozz ex machina]

Imagine being salty about a sequel to the best game ever made being the same price as every other AAA game on playstation/xbox.

My main concern is I haven't played vanilla botw in years. All my follow up playthroughs have been on cemu. I'll be buying the game but if Yuzu runs decently at launch that will be the best option.

 

[The Cockatrice]

not sure that's 720p but okay

My pixelated filtered face is 96p yes. Im sure the switch can barely handle it.

 

[Spukc]

My pixelated filtered face is 96p yes. Im sure the switch can barely handle it.

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS!!!!!!!

 

[The Cockatrice]

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS!!!!!!!

 

[crazy monkey]

And what good is it if 83% is copy paste from BOTW.?

That reminds me of the nonsense that Eiji Aonuma said at the launch of Twilight princess, saying that it was the most gigantic game ever, and it was only a 1.4 GB disc .

At that time it was the biggest zelda game.

 

[sandbood]

And what good is it if 83% is copy paste from BOTW.?

That reminds me of the nonsense that Eiji Aonuma said at the launch of Twilight princess, saying that it was the most gigantic game ever, and it was only a 1.4 GB disc .

I would love to see your reaction when this game is getting review scores around BOTW scores and breaking sales record.

 

[BlackTron]

The large file size actually has me more intrigued for more unique assets that could be the interior for distinct dungeons.

For example shrines all used the same assets so it was very space-efficient. Maybe TotK has dungeons with unique tilesets (like a Zelda on Game Boy has) thus increasing the file size.

A man can hope.

 

[V1LÆM]

As long as they don't cheap out with cartridges. They better use a 32GB one. If I need to download shit then I'll fucking do it but I'll be furious!

 

[Ainem Enamas]

This open world adventure awaits.

 

[BlackTron]

And what good is it if 83% is copy paste from BOTW.?

That's just it. If an asset is copy/pasted, it only needs to be on the disk once. Geometry and game logic take up almost no space, its the unique art assets that do.

In BotW, if the game displays a tree 40 times on the same screen, only one instance of the assets making up that tree is on the disk. The actual instructions for where/how to render and place each one are mere tiny kb of data.

Edit: This is why I suspect detailed interior spaces. In an outdoor environment, it would be too easy to reuse lots of the same stuff to build everything, of course it's not all copy/paste but a size increase this big points to something else. Just speculation though of course.

 

[lh032]

double the duplicate asset.

 

[BadBurger]

Hopefully this means the world is even larger than BotW's. I've been trying to avoid more than surface level info about this game, so I have no clue, but fingers are crossed.

 

[V1LÆM]

That's just it. If an asset is copy/pasted, it only needs to be on the disk once. Geometry and game logic take up almost no space, its the unique art assets that do.

In BotW, if the game displays a tree 40 times on the same screen, only one instance of the assets making up that tree is on the disk. The actual instructions for where/how to render and place each one are mere tiny kb of data.

I think what Heimdall_Xtreme was trying to say was is that they think it's basically just the same game as BOTW but with new coloured enemies or some shit. So many people have it in their head that this is just BOTW DLC.

I know we haven't seen much yet but there is no way Nintendo spent 6 years making "DLC" lol. Once the game is out it'll shut down this stupid talk of it being BOTW 1.5

Hopefully this means the world is even larger than BotW's. I've been trying to avoid more than surface level info about this game, so I have no clue, but fingers are crossed.

Well, maybe not horizontally but it definitely looks larger vertically. There is all the floating sky shit and we've seen a lot of underground action so likely we'll have the ground, sky, and underground to explore this time instead of just a flat map and buildings/shrines.

 

[BlackTron]

I think what Heimdall_Xtreme was trying to say was is that they think it's basically just the same game as BOTW but with new coloured enemies or some shit. So many people have it in their head that this is just BOTW DLC.

I know we haven't seen much yet but there is no way Nintendo spent 6 years making "DLC" lol. Once the game is out it'll shut down this stupid talk of it being BOTW 1.5

The vibe I get is this idea that file size is somehow directly correlated to size of the game world. They could have made BotW 50% larger with almost no increase in total file size just by copy/pasting more assets to make the map bigger, and designing more shrines again using same assets...you could get a much bigger BotW with a size increase measured in MB.

So the fact that TotK is so much bigger implies more unique content, NOT a copy/paste job.

 

[cireza]

18 GB ?

 

[fart town usa]

9,999 tree poops to find confirmed.

 

[AetherZX]

Probably explains the price hike, passing the cost of the 32GB carts to the consumer.