Game size on PS5 is madness

It's due to Columbina's eyes

Probably missing Assets of Lauma

it was just 8.9 gigs on pc ? why is it so big there lol

That's insaneeee, Celestia and Khaneri'ah gonna be x10 that size by the time we get there

Damn, I wish i could delete old quest to clear space

That's what you get for Sony's bs volumetric clouds exclusivity.

11GBs on Xbox, rip

that's how playstation handles updates

the game is not going to be 71gb larger after the installation

Wait so 71gb update? What? That ain't an update, that's a whole game

That's what you get for buying Sony products lol.

We desperately need the “delete used content” option on console for all the Hoyo games.

have you downloaded multiple voice languages? that was the reason for the absurd space for me on pc once

this just proved PS5 handling of game install is trash.

Not sure why your update is larger. My update is 67GB and downloading right now.

Ps5 is a joke in terms of optimisation

That's all those crisp console exclusive textures people were talking about it in that other post. ;)

It's due to how Sony has restricted how updates for games work. Unlike other platforms where Mihoyo is allowed to only download the update files then patch that in to the current game, Sony forces them to redownload the entire game instead. So when you predownload a new patch, you essentially have two copies of the game. Once the new patch goes live, it'll delete the old version of the game and swap over to the new one.

Sorry man, it's just how PlayStation handles updates

Recently I download, under 3GB from Genshin impact on mobile (for 6.3 patch) now my Genshin impact apps sitting at 29GB it's will reduce again after update.

It’s better to uninstall and reinstall

I'd find it very amusing if you were complaining about this when you only needed like an extra 5GB free or something. If so, just delete something small and re-download it later. Why kick up a fuss over something so simple?

Golly 🥲😂😃😃

Thats why I decided to just upgrade my ipad instead of upgrading my console. After the next version’s arrival, ps4 will no longer be supported (which i used to play and on my phone). So between the idea of upgrading my console to ps5 (I only use my ps4 for genshin. Laying low on my fromsoftware games) or a new iPad, it was a no brainer. Game is only using ~45gbs compared to 100gbs+ on console.

basically, you have to redownload a majority of the game's assets on ps5 due to how PKGs work

the real crime here is how the fuck Sony didn't get their balls ripped off for the 665 gb storage on the ps5, when it should've been 1TB minimum

You should ask them on survey about this matter maybe their will listen

71GB is nothing🤣 My PS4 is 87.3GB😅 this Pre-installation ONLY😓

That's nuts. I haven't noticed it for a while, since I bought a 2TB external SSD last year. I was getting tired of finding things to delete when the updates were due.

That’s just a playstation thing because the Xbox version is only 11.38GB. I don’t know why sony doesn’t do the same with the pre installation.

Cries in 150GB (pc)

I love that everyone is saying that is Sony to blame

If that would be the case then everytime there is an predownload to anyy game you would be required to download the whole game but when there was predownload for paladin to diablo 4 i didn't need to download 150 GB of data.

Last time when i was required to download full game with every update it was Street fighter 5, and it was problem on capcom side.

So it's Hoyo fault and they could fix this but they simple don't care

Its not, you and many players simply keep too many games installed. I never ever had problem with storage space

Who remembers when these consoles were announced we were told install files could be smaller, because thanks to the quick access of SSD's, devs no longer needed to include multiple copies of assets in give quick access to textures etc, thus reducing the install size dramatically.

Shame more devs are not doing what Helldivers 2 dev did and optimise the game to get rid of all the duplicate files.

on pc it was 7 gb, i guess you have tu uninstall the game to free up the space and download it again

Maybe your mom is in the new update!

Probably a playstation issue... pc update is only 8gb

This game is already taking up 160 GB. Please just let me manage my files. I need to delete miliastra

In all reality Hoyo needs to do a cleanup for console storage. We really need the ability to delete past quest dialogues like PC and mobile have.

Yeah this is part of why they probably have to end PS4 service outside of just graphics and stuff. Even by the end of Fontaine when I upgraded to PS5, I essentially had to delete any other game in order to update or what until maintenance was over and then update meaning I couldn’t play on update day.

Delete the app and download it again. PS5 redownloads the whole game every new patch

It’s because PS5 has all audio files from all languages so it’s massive

the game won't be suddenly 71gb larger, 90% of this amount of date will just update and replace previous data, only like 10% roughly of that armount are probabably new content, that actually increases in the end the total game size...

when updates are done, the exchange from old version to new version removes all data from old events and other non permanent stuff and replaces it with the temporary data for the new patch..

However, I absolutely share the point, that we should becoem finally able to delete all the permanent shit, we don't need anymore, or which was completely optional to begin with, ike all the language packs..

If we could just only delete that optional garbage finally, to get rid of japanese, chinese, and korean language iles for the WHOLE GAME, that somebody who doesnt speak these languages WILL NEVER need, the game should easily be able to get reduced from like 150GB to like 100 GB, which would be MASSIVE, if we could reduce finally the size of the game that way by 33%, which includes then also removing not needed anymore story content, because the stuff isn't replayable anyways, so no need to keep that data and optional repeatable stuff like hangouts, one time domains, one tiem doable quest data naturally...

I just think MHY is just holding back with these improvements, because of the existance still of the PS4 version, due to the game havign there a different consolse struture, than the other console versions for the more mondern consoles that have SSD's, like most modern gamign pcs's

Sure, we console players also have the option to expand our memory space, but these options are expensive either, or require of you to be mechanically knowledgeable of opening up your console and doctor around its insides, to add in there SSD storage space expansions and mechanically close it then again perfectly, without destroying anything the exact way reverse, how you opened it up, which requires naturally havign all the neccessary tools for that, to open the console up even first..and if you dont know what you are doing there, its a very risky thing.. which is also somethign you should do with a young PS5 that still has guarantee, because if you open it up and doctor around in it, you lose your manufacturer's guarantee for the console. so better let it do by professionals, but then it becomes naturally again expensive for you on top of having to buy naturally the fitting SSD extension that meets up all requirements and gets supported by Sony, because not all of them naturally are.

And havign to go that route would hopefully be the very last option I'd have to go, after MHY doing first what they can and shoudl to to optimize the game for the consoles by doing software based solutions that gives us finalyl the tools into our hands to reduce the game size for us to the least minimum required amount, based on what you need and your game progress.

The doctor is huge

8.25 Gb on PC, so PS5 *is* madness

It's 100 in pc brother

Genuine, question like why cannot Genshin be optimized like other open world games?
Like and I am really curious to know.

Time to get some extra storage brother. I recently got 2TB Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD and forgot about these kind of issues. Internal storage used only for captures.

That’s crazy, it’s only 11 gigs on XBox

71? It was 12-13 on pc and 3gb on my phone

You can do 4 things:

\- Delete one game and reinstall it later
\- Delete stuff from Media like saved videos or pictures
\- Delete and reinstall the game after the release of the version
\- Extend your storage with a 1 TB SSD

For me, since i have only 35 GB left on my PS5 and i don't have extended the storage, i will wait until the next maintenance and then i will proceed by deleting the game and reinstall it.

It pre-downloads the update and since it will not be installed right away it has to be stored. Thus the extra space. Another option which is annoying but works is reinstalling the game altogether when the new version releases. The size will only be around 40 gigs more than the current update if I remember correctly.

Option B is to have an extra storage. I just keep all my games that I don’t actively play on that and them move them back when I feel like playing them.

the clock is ticking for me
i wont have storage for 7.x so i hope they do something about

Mobile players: you're more than welcome to join us 🤗

wow and i thought on pc was bad, with 120gb(new update probably higher)

Just delete game and redownload when maintenance starts

yeah so the update on ps5 reinstalls the whole ass game. do yourself a favor and buy some extended storage for your ps5 (i have one and im still tight for space </3)

Most games are like this these days…. Some games is just better to reinstall rather than updating example is diablo4 lol

67GB (No pun intended) and 5h Download time 😃😃 On everything my PS4 was faster with Downloading Genshin updates 🥀🥀

That's pretty standard fair for games these days.

It's not larger on PS5. PS5 handles updates much shittier than PC is all, although IIRC mobile isn't any better about it.

Just delete another shitter game you don't play, get the update and then reinstall if you really want.

lol

I use PS5 as well and this is also my problem every patch... *sighs while deleting and reinstalling again*

Free option is to uninstall after the patch hits, and then reinstall. This should work, but only up to a point. Eventually, the full game will take too much space, period. Not only is Genshin kinda poorly optimized when it comes to file size, the PS5's SSD size is the system's weakest point.

The money option is to add an SSD to your PS5. Do some research and look for sales, and you easily find one larger than the built in SSD. Hell, by now, you can probably find one faster too. They're pretty easy to install. You're not voiding any warranties or risking bricking your PS5 either. It's designed to get this upgrade.

Yeah it is unfortunate. However, on the bright side your game file is not increasing by 71.46GB. It’s installing the update and requires a “copy” also of the base game

Can we please choose to disable wonderland? I don't play that at all.

I think that added like 30GB to the patch. Before it was around 25GB-40GB... or is this one especially large?

It's because the PS5 updates games by redownloading the entire game and deleting the original.

You need 70GB of verified available storage, the update isn’t actually that large, it compresses the file size once downloaded. The actual update is probably closer to 15-20 GB. Genshin is still only half the size of modern warefare. You can also by a terabyte ssd that slots into your ps5 for like $100

160 GB is right around the top end of game size these days. It's big, but nothing out of the ordinary 


Sure, compared to the ps3 days when everyone was complaining about GTA V being 40gb it's massive. But these days many big AAA games crack 100gb and plenty also go to 150gb


But yeah, the way ps5 does updates is it downloads the file then applies it to the game, so you won't see a 70gb increase in size once you finish updating. Part of me thinks hoyo must be doing something wrong - surely they must be including things in the update file that don't need to be

thats just how it is I guess, they create a copy of the game then applies the patch to the copy instead of applying the new patch directly to the existing files to avoid file corruption

Madness?

aint no way u used up all 600 (825gb original) and 800gb (1tb original) of free space 😭😭