Physical copies of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for Wii U require a 3 GB install
Disc or no disc, you'll need to free up space on your Wii U or external drive to experience Link's latest grand adventure.
Consumers eyeing the physical edition of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for Wii U will need to set aside 3GB of space for select data during installation.
The news comes from a listing for the game on Nintendo of Japan's website (via Nintendo Everything), which mentions that some data from the disc will take up permanent residence following installation.
USB sticks can't be used, according to Nintendo Everything. You'll need to use an external hard drive or free up space on the Wii U's internal storage.
News of Zelda's install size in every possible permutation—physical and digital editions for Switch and Wii U—has been making the rounds following the game's showing at Nintendo's Switch event last week. Digital copies call for 13 GB of space on Wii U and 13.4 GB of the Switch's 32 GB of storage.
On the bright side, Zelda: Breath of the Wild may include dual audio voice tracks, ideal for players who preferred the Japanese voiceover and English subtitles used in the trailer Nintendo showed at the event.
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replyDavid Craddock posted a new article, Physical copies of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for Wii U require a 3 GB install
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Only 3 GB?!? This game must be incredibly light on content. That's like half of a Skyrim install. Disappointed.
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its using the disc too I think. its like a hard drive cache to improve performance. the digital version is 13gb
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Switch has no discs.. it's all cartridge ROM based.
I'm guessing the ROM chips have slower read speeds compared to the built-in 32GB SD storage?-
this article is about the wii u version you nimcompoop
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Wii u....
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I'm sure there's less content in Breath of the Wild than Skyrim (depending on what you consider content, I'm lenient on the term), but I also doubt you can really assess the amount of content based on the size of the install. I'm betting Zelda has significantly less voice acting and lower texture resolution than Skyrim. That'll cut down the game size considerably.
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FAT32 is limited to 4gb for individual files. I can't recall the maximum capacity of the drive, but I wanna say it's 1 or 2 TB
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https://www.sandisk.com/home/memory-cards/microsd-cards/extremepro-microsd-uhs-ii
if you have the need for speed. hopefully the switch can take advantage of it.
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It's not nearly as bad as it was so long as you go to Nintendo soon afterwards.
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Now that Nintendo has a proper account system I'm assuming switch games will be tied to the account and not the console
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Oh shit. Did you just assume Nintendo would do something that makes sense when it comes to online anything? Because it seems like you did.
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Why... wouldn't you? You're insinuating that something in particular should cause people to abstain from buying digital Zelda games in particular.
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i bought all my 3ds games digitally, i just didnt care for selling games or carrying cards
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Because, insanely, it's way cheaper. I get 20% off physical games with amazon prime but as far as I know amazon.ca doesn't offer digital copies.
Plus lending it to friends, bandwidth limitations, hard drive space or having a collection if that appeals to you. So a whole bunch of reasons.
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How much space is there on a Wii U anyways? I've never looked at that stuff...
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32 gb internal I believe.
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