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Grand Theft Auto VI reportedly requires a 210GB download

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Grand Theft Auto VI reportedly requires a 210GB download

Be prepared to surrender a significant portion of your console's hard drive.

Rockstar Games has been open about Grand Theft Auto VI being a big game, so it's perhaps not surprising that it will also reportedly be a big download. According to an X post from dataminer "PlayStation Game Size" that has been corroborated by Insider Gaming, the hotly anticipated open-world game will have a "download size" of 210GB on the PlayStation 5. It's not yet known if that's the total amount of storage necessary to install the game (installers themselves take up temporary space on your hard drive) or just the game itself, but either way it's large.

That's 61GB more than the 149GB of free space Red Dead Redemption 2 needed to be installed on a PS4 in 2018, according to IGN. It's also more than half of the approximately 362GB of usable storage available in a standard 512GB Xbox Series S. As Insider Gaming notes, if you add in the possibility of a day-one patch, you could spend a large part of your first day owning GTA VI just downloading what you need to make it run on your console.

This is largely par for the course for flashy AAA video games. As graphical standards have increased and online multiplayer features and open world structures have become commonplace, the size of games has ballooned. Developers have made efforts to tame game sizes — like when Activision decoupled Warzone from its annual Call of Duty releases — but the issue is far from solved.


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