Starfield’s file dimension has now been confirmed, and you could wish to liberate a great chunk of area in preparation for its launch on September 6.
That is as a result of Starfield goes to take up a sizeable 100.19GB on Xbox Sequence X|S. And that is simply the Commonplace Version. Premium Version house owners ought to count on its set up dimension to leap as much as 117.07GB. PC and Steam customers have it worse nonetheless, with Bethesda’s spacefaring RPG taking on an eye-watering 139.84GB (thanks, Eurogamer).
That places Starfield within the ballpark of among the largest and finest Xbox Sequence X video games, a minimum of with none further DLC or updates put in, together with Halo Infinite (97GB), Microsoft Flight Simulator (102GB), and Murderer’s Creed Valhalla (103GB).
Because of this, it could be in your finest pursuits to make as a lot room as you possibly can in your console or PC by deleting older video games you now not play. Or, alternatively, investing in among the best Xbox Sequence X onerous drives and SSDs such because the Seagate Xbox Storage Growth Card or the WD Black C50, to make sure you will not be caught quick come launch day.
You’ll be able to preload Starfield proper now on Xbox Sequence X|S and PC (although Steam gamers might want to wait till August 30) in the event you’ve pre-ordered the sport, or are planning on downloading it from the Xbox Recreation Move subscription service.
Your Xbox Sequence X has roughly 800GB of operational storage, regardless of claiming 1TB on the field. Whereas that is technically nonetheless true, round 200GB is taken up by the working system and different pre-installed applications. It is worse nonetheless on Xbox Sequence S, which knocks all the way down to roughly 364GB (from 512GB) after OS set up. That implies that house owners of Microsoft’s cheaper current-gen console might discover themselves struggling to put in Starfield with out further storage. This implies the sport will successfully take up a 3rd of the whole area on the digital-only system.
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