Are most modern games always about 50 gb?

I don't play many games nowadays. Certainly not the newer ones as I tend to stick with games I've owned for years. One thing that concerns me is the size of install of the modern games. I've seen a couple of late that shocked me because they are 40-50 gb in size. That seems utter madness. Is that the norm nowadays? I was thinking of getting myself back into Steam but I don't fancy kicking off downloads that seem so large or even wasting such a large % of my hard drive to a single game.

Hi Scotty,

It appears the games just keep getting larger in size with no end in sight. In fact, there are a few out there that are well over 100GB in size. However, you can still find some games that are relatively small in size but who wants to buy a game based on size?

Good luck,

aardvark

Yes, Scotty, that's the way it is with newer games 40GB-50GB download and hard drive space. Doom 2016, for example, is 54GB. If you look at games a couple of years old or more you will see many are about 20GB. Crysis 3 is 18.2GB, Project Cars 21.6GB. The older games are still fun to play.

I had 600GB storage on my hard drives. Now with the recent addition of an SSD, I have 1.1TB in total. Even with that I have to manage space and sadly games I don't play much anymore get uninstalled. Thank 4K textures in recent games for the large size and as a 1080P gamer the size of these recent games is mainly a nuisance and a cost to me. I think 1080P gaming at max settings and high frame rates is a great way to game. But I'm probably in a minority saying that and there's a number of companies out there that want to discourage that kind of thinking. $$$$$.

aardvark said:

Hi Scotty,

It appears the games just keep getting larger in size with no end in sight. In fact, there are a few out there that are well over 100GB in size. However, you can still find some games that are relatively small in size but who wants to buy a game based on size?

Good luck,

aardvark

Only XBox One users. Your Xbox One warranty will be void if you upgrade the HDD which is stupid.

RubberDucky said:

Only XBox One users. Your Xbox One warranty will be void if you upgrade the HDD which is stupid.

I had to laugh when I saw your response. How true! I bought an XBOX One with a 1TB drive. When I powered it up, I only had 778GBs usable. Then, I installed one game which used a whopping 115GBs. Then another which used 70GBs. Then a really small one which only used 65GBs.

aardvark said:

I had to laugh when I saw your response. How true! I bought an XBOX One with a 1TB drive. When I powered it up, I only had 778GBs usable. Then, I installed one game which used a whopping 115GBs. Then another which used 70GBs. Then a really small one which only used 65GBs.

778GB usable with 1TB? GG, 931GB of 1TB usable on Windows 10.

RubberDucky said:

778GB usable with 1TB? GG, 931GB of 1TB usable on Windows 10.

Yep, XBOX One reserves some of that area for other functions. I forget what those functions are actually.

aardvark said:

Yep, XBOX One reserves some of that area for other functions. I forget what those functions are actually.

How big is the OS itself?