Sea of Thieves Update to Cut Install Size Significantly - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 January 2019 / 2,525 Views

Rare announced it will be releasing an update for Sea of Thieves on February 6 that will Significantly decrease the install size for the game.

Here is the change in install size:

Xbox One – from an install size of 35GB to 10GB
Xbox One X – from an install size of 47GB to 25GB
Windows 10 PC – from an install size of 47GB to 27GB

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12 Comments

Zkuq (on 17 January 2019)

Insane optimization. I wonder if this is because of compression or some neat asset reuse (although I'm guessing the former).

DonFerrari (on 17 January 2019)

Very good, even more if the game runs the same.

The Fury (on 17 January 2019)

Wish they did this for more games. 66gb for Spider-man no matter how good it is, is still 66 gb. Compress the sound files a little. :P

DonFerrari The Fury (on 17 January 2019)

Compression can lead to more processing power consumed that could be used for other things. Still have 20% unused on my 3TB external HDD with 300 games installed =p

ArchangelMadzz The Fury (on 17 January 2019)

So you're using 2.4 TB with 300 games? That's an average of 8gb each. Meaning you must have a ridiculous amount of smaller titles to compensate for your bigger games.

Not a very good argument especially for users that mainly play AAA titles.

DonFerrari The Fury (on 17 January 2019)

Yep, there are a lot of free games from PS+ and discounted games that are mostly on the smaller size. I would say I have 50 full size games (around 50GB each), another 50 medium sized (10-20GB) and the other 200 on the 1-5GB (like PS Classics and what not).

I for 3 years had only the 500GB internal HDD and had to delete games all the time, but that wasn't ever an issue for me. Usually after I platined the game I would delete unless it was for friend playing.

ArchangelMadzz The Fury (on 18 January 2019)

You don't have enough space to have what you say and still have 20% left. Considering the OS uses space and the PS4 needs at least 80GB of space to do anything (Which is so annoying)

I'm sure you're probably confusing games that you have installed and games that you have purchased that aren't currently downloaded on the system.

50 full sized games alone would fill most of your drive to where you can't have 20% left.

DonFerrari The Fury (on 28 January 2019)

OS doesn't install itself on the external HDD.
And I may be a little off on the quantity of each size game. But I'm pretty sure they are installed, not just bought.

Anyway that isn't even the important part of it. I had the 160GB PS3 with several games installed and like once per month I had to uninstall 2 or 3 to install new ones. And for like 2 yeas had to do the same with my 500GB PS4. Managing installed games wasn't ever a problem for me, I usually play one game a time and once I finish I hardly go back.