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Yesterday, Square Enix announced that Final Fantasy XVI is just about ready to go for Windows PCs, with the release of a demo and announcement of the full release date: September 17 of this year.

It's a pretty good set of news for people who don't have a Playstation 5; the demo is the same as what was released for PS5, including the entire prologue chapter with the ability to transfer the game data into the full game. The base game is priced at a reasonable-for-Squenix $49.99, but for $69.99 you'll get the game plus both released DLCs, which is still minimum $5 less than PS5 players paid to get them at release. Preorders also get a few DLC items; two of them are similar to the bonuses for the PS5 preorder, and the third is an Orchestrion Roll that I genuinely can't remember now how one gets for PS5.

I haven't been much of a PC gamer for quite a while now, at least not for new games; the specs look pretty significant to me, though, and the requirement of having 170GB free on an SSD is definitely looking pretty intense. If you're curious, though - and you should be, because FF16 is a genuinely excellent game - now is a good time to grab the demo from either Steam or the Epic Store and see if your rig can manage it between now and mid-September.

Source: Square Enix

170 GB?

...and on an SSD?

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Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 24th August 2024 07:46)

170 GB?

...and on an SSD?

Yeah, it absolutely needs to be on an SSD. Having played it on PS5, it feels like a game that would suffer greatly from lower data throughput. As for the size... yeah...

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Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

I know some computers have 256 GB SSDs, so I'm wondering what it's like to have 170 of those GBs filled with *literally just one game* lol

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Yeah, but, my gaming PC that I built about four years ago has two SSDs with a total of about 750GB, and a PC built recently enough to do a good job with FF16 is probably running at least double that these days. I have 2.5TB storage in my PS5 after putting in a second drive last year, for instance.

It's way too much, don't get me wrong, especially for a digital download, but IMO anyone really wanting to play it probably is gonna get limited by other specs before they hit a wall on the SSD.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 24th August 2024 07:46)

170 GB?

...and on an SSD?

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I know some computers have 256 GB SSDs, so I'm wondering what it's like to have 170 of those GBs filled with *literally just one game* lol

If you're any sort of serious PC gamer (as I would expect one getting this game to be):

1. You're playing on an SSD. No way around it if you want a smooth gaming experience on modern games.
2. You're very unlikely playing on anything smaller than a 512 GB. Not only for the same reason as 1, but also to help avoid constantly removing previous games to make room for the next.

And SSDs aren't even that expensive, anymore. You can even get some 1 TB NVMes for less than $100.

Not sure I'll get this game; I haven't considered a Final Fantasy game since 12. I do have a 1 TB SSD dedicated to games, so I wouldn't be too concerned about that space requirement. And modern games with 100+ GB reqs. do seem to be becoming more common, too; all the more reason for needing bigger SSDs for a gaming rig, if those kinds of games are your thing.

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