‘Final Fantasy XV’ Will Take Up Huge Hard Drive Space For PlayStation And Xbox One

The latest Square Enix game is about to be officially released tomorrow and fans are getting more updates even before it is out. The size of the video game “Final Fantasy XV” has been revealed as well giving players a head start on cleaning up console storage.

The pre-load copies of “Final Fantasy XV” have just begun its release in Japan. It is in the form of a digital download. Thanks to this, it has allowed players to get a peek of what console owners are going to receive especially with a game as anticipated as this one.

One of the most shocking revelations from “Final Fantasy XV” is the size of the hard drive that it will occupy. Though it has been announced before by PlayStation Store that the game only has a 40 GB file size, it turns out that it will be needing at least 50 GB of free space in order to get all of the perks of the game.

Aside from the free space, it requires, “Final Fantasy XV” will only eat up 6.6 GB of the PlayStation 4 console’s disk drive for the first parts of the game. It is another story for owners of the Xbox One console. Apparently, it will at least be needing 52 GB free space for the said console, in addition to the initial 7GB game data.

The file size may increase as soon as the game is released as Square Enix has just announced that it will be releasing patches and updates. They have said that after the game has been officially released, players will obtain the “Crown” patch that will be responsible for fixing bugs and will contain other patches. Aside from that, Square Enix has also announced that another patch will be released in December this year to increase the video game’s frame rates.

“Final Fantasy XV” is the fifteenth main installment video game in the world of the Final Fantasy series. It has been revealed that the gameplay will be similar to that of the “Kingdom Hearts” series and “Final Fantasy Type-0”. “Final Fantasy XV” will be officially released worldwide on Nov. 29.