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by rickosborne 1591 days ago
Looking at the storage on my PS5, the largest game on it is the preload for "Horizon: Forbidden West" which goes live next Friday. It's 88GB. It's an open world RPG with several dozen hours of gameplay.

"Returnal", about a year older and a much shorter game, is the next largest at 60 GB.

Toward the bottom of the list are "Maneater" and "Life Is Strange: True Colors", both clocking in at about 15GB and as many hours of gameplay.

Having said that, your net connect isn't going to help with games. I have Starlink, which generally sits in the 150-250Mbit range. That should have taken about an hour to download 88GB. It took 7. The CDNs for game delivery aren't exactly speedy. (And that's pretty common, in my experience. Even in my last place when I had gigabit fiber, I generally left the console downloading overnight.)

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Worth noting PS5 games are compressed using Kraken and decompressed via an hardware decoder. Same games can be twice as big on PC or Xbox.