We can only imagine what this would have been if the game had a single-player campaign. The fine print for Microsoft’s upcoming Titanfall Xbox One bundle contains a little tidbit, buried there at the end: the new shooter from Respawn entertainment will require “up to” 40 gb of hard drive space. This puts it on par with the PS4′s Killzone: Shadow Fall, which made headlines when it first announced its download size months ago.
As Paul Tassi notes, the 500 GB that both the Xbox One and PS4 came with is starting to look small awfully fast. Modern games are much larger than their counterparts of the last generation. With both companies emphasizing digital downloads, deciding what you want to keep on your disc will have a real impact on how you play.
Re-downloading a game to play it can take hours, but even the discs require a sometimes frustrating install time. I find myself gazing idly at my shelf of Xbox 360 games, remembering a time when all you had to do was pop in a disc and start playing. It’s frustrating that, in many ways, playing new console games has only become less convenient with new tech. But I suppose that began when the loading screen first arrived. Oh, for the days of cartidges.
Titanfall is the first major release of the post-launch period for these new consoles, and Microsoft isn’t shy about how important it is for the brand-new Xbox One. The company has given the console a full system update that revolves around the game’s requirements, and has even tweaked the way its controller works based on Respawn’s input. The game has received across-the-board praise during the beta period, so it would appear that Microsoft has picked a pretty strong horse to head up this new hardware. The real question is what impact this will have on sales — it’s sure to boost them, but Sony has an impressive lead.
One question — why doesn’t the Titanfall bundle come with a Titanfall controller? Curious.
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