I am downloading the game and I think that weighs very little. Someone knows something?
Sea of Thieves weighs only 9GB?
I'm not a professional but here's my explanation... Most likely 2 reasons: compression and a lack of different types of textures.
Compression: a lot of a game's storage size is based on how compressed the files are. Compression allows good performance and smaller file size, but hardware has to be decent in order to process it at a decent rate. This game is strictly for today's generation of hardware, so they didn't have to decompress it for older hardware.
Textures: SoT's entire setting looks 100% the same. There's only one big map on one world. Everything has that same cartoony art style. The lack of different textures helps keep the game size down a lot. This also explains why the Xbox One X version is double the size because of the 4k textures.
Compression, PC Version is bigger however it needs to run on many different built systems and builds. Extremely complicated compared to Xbox which can run the same on million of devices.
It looks like everything is server side and we are pretty much viewing the game through a window. So not much is required except graphics and any affects that would take forever to download.
@ghost-0f-dawn PC version is 60GB!!!
Sixty haha. I’ve been looking at getting it tonight on PC about trying it on Xbox game pass first. Bargain for £1.39 for a month and get to try this out 👍🏻@samoclarkey ?? Been on multiple websites tonight and many are saying saying 60GB of space required on PC?? A couple have said 20 and several saying 60. Who knows? If I like it on XB I’ll just get it on PC regardless of size 👍🏻
For what it’s worth a game like monster hunter world is only 13gb on my Xbox one X. Pre rendered cutscenes are usually a big part of a game having a large file size. Gears of war 4 has a 100gb plus download because of all the 4K videos etc.
18gb for sea of thieves on my X is perfectly normal for a game of its type. Fallout 4 was only 18gb at launch if i remember correctly too.
@layleeloo you dont need to get it on PC,
i preordered my through xbox.....
then i logged into the windows store on my PC and the game was already purchased. i just downloaded it and installed it.
love the fact i can play on both PC and Xbox without having to re purchase
win a ding
@blessed-karma Ah really? I didn’t know you could do that. Even better then! When I want a long play can be comfy on sofa on the XB but when I want it to look and run as good as it can all maxed out I can use PC. Best of both worlds. Thanks for the heads up! 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@layleeloo Totally agree,
i played the Alpha and Beta on xbox and loved it,
then i upgraded my graphics card and got a new SSD and Monitor for my PC and on release installed SOT.
looks AMAZING and runs flawlessly with max graphics.but i am not much of a PC gamer so after 2 or 3 hours of play my left hand started to cramp so i quit, turned on the xbox and then sat on the couch playing for a while longer with my feet up
hope it goes smoothly for you
Good luck on the open seas@blessed-karma could always use your controller on your PC ;)
although, to be honest, sometimes it is nice to just kick back on the sofa rather than sat at a desk!
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