Gran Turismo 7 for PS4 Comes on 2 Discs and 1 Disc on PS5 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2022 / 2,767 Views
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Polyphony Digital are set to launch Gran Turismo 7 next month for the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.
The PlayStation Store listings for the two versions of the game reveals it will come on two discs on the PS4, while the PS5 version will come on a single disc. The reason for this is the PS5 has an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive that can read discs with higher capacity, while the PS4 does not.
The racing game requires a minimum of 110 GB storage space on both consoles.
Gran Turismo 7 will launch for the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 on March 4.
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I have a 2 terabyte HDD so transferring is fine woohoo but hot dayumn 110gb it's packing a lot of heat and by heat I mean graphics babieeeee!!!!!
Seems like a waste to me. Due to patches, DLC, and other updates, the game won't be a complete game no matter how many or few discs it ships on at launch. It seems like there's no point in multi-disc games unless and until you're releasing a "Game of the Year" edition a few years after launch.
Both have the same data? Does that mean the texture size of the game assets are the same across ps4 /ps5?
Is that the first multi BD-ROM game?
No. TLOU2 and Cynerpunk 2077 both had 2 discs.
RDR2 and FF7R as well so it's nothing new.
Horizon Forbidden West will also have 2 discs on PS4 and that is also out before Gran Turismo 7.
FF7R on my ps5 is only one disc too.
Yes, I should have clarified that I was referring to the PS4 version. PS5 uses 100gb discs.
To be honest I rather 2 discs than having to download a massive update, I remember forza 7 took me forever at around 100gb. I am happy with ps5 being just one disc, I honestly would love to go digital, but I'm never sure if I will like the games and like the opportunity to resell.
As others mentioned, not new. Also, many games avoid it by requiring downloads.
Yeah, I knew that. That practice is the norm now. That’s why I was a little surprised that they used two discs instead of a giant day one patch.
Makes sense, but damn big amount of data.
How does that work? You need to swap the discs at some point?
You have 667GB usable space on the internal SSD. 110GB is 16.5 %, so with about 6 AAA games your SSD is full. Wow.
Not all AAA games take 110GB.
Giving examples based on some of the bigger PS5 games I have (including PS5 remasters and cross-gen games):
- Cyberpunk 2077: 56.32GB
- Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade with Intermission: 90.39GB
- Horizon Forbidden West: 87.66GB
- Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales: 39.18
- Immortal Fenyx Rising: 49.72GB
- Ghost of Tsushima: 59.14GB
- Returnal: 58.76GB
- Resident Evil Village: 27.55GB
- Death Stranding Director’s Cut: 68.98
- Demon’s Souls: 53.73GB
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart: 33.62GB
- Doom Eternal: 72.18GB
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Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection: 68.61GB
So you can indeed install more than 6 games. But having a secondary M.2 drive makes the console more convenient for sure, if you want to keep all your games installed and playable at all times.
I personally opted for the WD Black SN850 2TB, and that’s still quite expensive. If Sony had put a bigger SSD in the console, it would have driven the production cost of it higher, for sure. But the process of transferring games from an external HDD to the internal SSD is reasonably quick enough for the short term outlook. It depends if you’re someone who plays a lot of different games on a regular basis. In which case an added internal SSD can prove a good investment.
Okay, but the average size of those games you listed is 55GB. Enough for 12 games with 667GB usable space. But, PS5 games are probably going to only get larger. Think of how large they will be in 5 or 6 years down the line when the PS6 is out and we are getting AAA cross gen games on PS5 and PS6.
Honestly, I usually have around 3-5 AAA games on any given time on any console. Most of the indie and mid-range console games are still well under 20 GB and often under 1. But that's just me. As soon as I finish a game I tend to delete it. Rarely do I replay or keep it for multiplayer.
That same for me. I don't generally keep more than 500gb or so of games on my system at any given time. I will note that I have a Series S, and that little bit of storage in the 9th generation does require some thought on my end. But, the PS5 and Series X hard drives are sufficient for my needs without any real thought put into it.
Games take less space on ps5 than xbox, but that seems like a huge difference tough
What about Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War with its 219GB?
I don’t play crappy games…
Lucky u dont bave stalker 2 as reports say its 180gb min for that game!
