Metroid Dread’s File Size Will Be Smaller Than A Call of Duty Update
The official Nintendo store page for Metroid Dread now includes the game’s total size, and it’s tiny—smaller than the average Call of Duty update.
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In an age of ever-growing game sizes, Metroid Dread is bucking the trend, boasting a file size smaller than the average Call of Duty update. This will likely come as a relief to Nintendo Switch owners – with many great games to play and only so much memory space, it can be tough to decide what makes the cut and what gets left behind. With other games like Call of Duty: Vanguard demanding 270 GB of space, it’s worth noting when other high-profile games require much less real-estate.
Metroid Dread will be the latest entry in the Metroid series upon release on October 8, and is the first brand-new title in the series since 2016’s Metroid Prime: Federation Force. The Metroid series’ narrative chronology can be a bit hard to follow – something Nintendo fans are familiar with if they play the Legend of Zelda series – but the most recent plot developments occurred back in 2002 with Metroid Fusion for the Gameboy Advance. Metroid Dread picks up afterward, with the return of the X Parasites, which Samus theoretically destroyed at the end of Metroid Fusion. What exactly has brought the X Parasites back is still in question until the game comes out, but Nintendo of America tweeted about the status of Metroid X Parasites in early August, so their return is confirmed.
A new report from Kotaku states that – according to the game’s page on the official Nintendo store – Metroid Dread sizes in at just 4.1 GBs of space. Now, it’s possible the game won’t stay that small forever, given that in all likelihood it will get patches and DLC in the future. Still, though, it’s got a lot of room to grow, especially when compared to other AAA titles. There’s no word on what accounts for the game’s especially small size, but from the trailers and other pre-release material, the game doesn’t appear to sacrifice graphical fidelity to save space. After Metroid Dread’s lengthy development, though, it’s a welcome feature that the game is so small.
Metroid Dread looks like a fairly standard Metroid game, a side-scroller featuring map exploration and upgrades that helped create the famous “Metroidvania” genre. It’s unclear what the size suggests for the game’s length and amount of content; perhaps a small file size means a shorter game, or maybe it just means the team behind the game has been economical and has compressed files to save space. Either way, as the first new 2D Metroid game in almost two decades, Metroid Dread has garnered quite a bit of attention ahead of its imminent launch.
With Metroid Dread about to release and Metroid Prime 4 still in development, it’s a good time to be a Metroid fan. And, with Metroid Dread being so small, gamers will likely have room for both games on their Switch.
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