Developer Warns of Big Problem With PS5 and Xbox Series X Games

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It remains to be seen how big the difference between PS4 and Xbox One games and PS5 and Xbox games will be. And while there will certainly be games on Xbox Series X and PS5 within the first year of each respective console that look and run considerably better than your average PS4 and Xbox One game, we won't see the true power of the next-gen consoles until deeper into the cycle when developers truly begin to understand how to squeeze the most out of each.

That said, if one developer is to be believed, the PS5 and Xbox Series X won't help with one big problem plaguing Xbox One and PS4 gamers, and that's file sizes. In fact, the developer suggests the problem could get worse.

Thanks to the various tech improvements each console is packing, games will be larger than they ever have before. According to Ryan Shah, CEO and lead programmer of Kitatus and Friends, Unreal Engine 5's new micro-polygon rendering system will in particular translate to game file sizes increasing.



“It takes a lot of the headache out of asset creation, but at the same time, it starts to raise more concerns," said the developer about the system, dubbed Nanite, while speaking to Wccftech. "And one of the examples is Call of Duty: Warzone at the minute, as people are harassing Activision over the size of Call of Duty: Warzone. And I think when we’ve got technologies now in the Unreal Engine 5 that allow us to use the original source meshes, with the original source textures and everything like that, the game file sizes are going to have to skyrocket, which presents a unique set of challenges.”


As you may, in the past some of have suggested the exact opposite to this, pointing towards the SSDs of each console as key to reducing game file sizes. In other words, there seems to be some confliction here, and unfortunately, we have no way of knowing who's right.

What we do know is that game file sizes have steadily gotten bigger and bigger not only from generation to generation, but within generations as well. And it looks like this will continue to be a problem.



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0101010101010101Posted:

They are gonna have to start releasing consoles with 4tb hard drives

OGTrey079Posted:

storage bout to be ez 4 no one on console. They really boasted a SSD to have 1TB or under lol.

TheFinalBuildPosted:

This has always been such a dumb debate in my eyes cause it should be common sense.
Graphics and everything associated with it are the reasons games are so big.
As technology gets better we can be more detailed and precise and as such files will only get bigger and bigger.
This is why games on PS3 & 360 we're only a few gigabytes because there rendered out at a 720/1080 resolution & could only be so detailed.
(Note games at the end of both generations began to look better but nothing compared to games we have now b4 someone says but halo 4 was beautifulllll.)
Where as PS4 & Xbone were minimum 1080 majority 4k.
Now if PS5 & Series X are to be standard 4k and can go up to 8k of course games are gonna get bigger and bigger!

Same concept for the kids who download youtube videos, that 4k download of baby shark is way bigger then the 720p download.
Just like those who watch any adult entertainment know the difference between downloading a 40 min 480p/720p video vs a 4k video.

KickaPosted:

Im not buying either if the games will still be 30-60fps