![]() ![]() ![]() But then I got to thinking: How much bigger is it? How much space would you need to store every game made on or before 1992? It’s one of those claims that sounds outrageous (not everyone believed me) but is actually a pretty safe guess. I made this claim based on some rough guesses off the top of my head. It's bigger than the combined size of every game ever produced for every platform before Wolfenstein 3D. So I snarked a bit on Twitter, as you do: So imagine my surprise when I went to download the new Wolfenstein game through Steam and found it was a whopping 40GB, double the size of Rage. It’s not the largest game or anything, but as more of the market moves to digital distribution, having a game be double the norm is notable. For comparison, it’s more than double the size of contemporaries like Dishonored, Sleeping Dogs, Far Cry 3, Spec Ops: The Line, Saints Row The Third, and BulletStorm. At the time I noted that Rage was a little over 20 gigabytes in size, mostly due to the unusual way megatextures work. A couple of years ago I made a video talking about megatextures, which is the technology behind Rage. ![]()
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