|MYT|dimonkey wrote:GTA V currently comes in at around 65GB
Rockstar Games has never been a reference in resource consumption, especially HDD space...
Although 40 GiB does not surprise me more than that... HD graphics, remember.
Nothing eats memory more than high-quality pictures, and the format they used is not some nicely compressed format which is unprocessable: usually it is a raw or equivalent one.
Take your favorite camera which produces crap but theoritically 'small' JPEG files, set it to a high resolution, and get shocked by the size of file. Although, I admit, cameras produce cheaply compressed JPEG compared to what a normal CPU does in a reasonably almost-instant time.
I loved the 'truely next-gen' mention. Oh so now they are admitting their whole 'next-gen' marketing these past 10 years was bullshit?
Guess what: they are bullshiting us right now.
Nice effects, indeed, but not everyone has dimonkey's setup...