Although many love summer, some are waiting for it to happen now to finally meet Starfield, which will hit stores and Xbox Game Pass on September 6. So while it’s doing it, it’s normal for us to learn small details that could fully affect us… depending on the hardware we have. Especially in the PC version, which is where those small last-minute adjustments can occur.
The fact is that with the arrival of the new generation, of PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, games have once again taken a significant leap in terms of disk size, either on consoles or on the same PCs. If with PS4 and Xbox One things were fixed around 50 or 75 gigabytes on average -with cases above and below-, with the next-gen that limit has already been doubled without any problem and rare is the release that does not exceed 100.
Starfield will be very heavy
The fact is that in the last few hours we have learned what Bethesda is going to require of us in hard drive space to Starfield and it is a lot, because it will be close to 130 gigabytes, specifically 129, but not as much as many imagined after seeing the Microsoft specials from last June. After checking how huge it is, the amount of things it will let you do and the freedom of movement it promises, some had thought that the thing could have reached 200 gigabytes easily.
But it is notThat amount of 129 gigabytes is acceptable because it is not the heaviest title of those that we have in circulation right now, since cases such as that of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla either Star Wars Jedi Survivor They outnumber him by quite a margin. In the case of the Ubisoft title, with all the DLC, expansions and others, it almost exceeds 150 thanks, although it remains in only 148 gigabytes, while the launch of Electronic Arts does, standing at 154 in total.
Say goodbye to your old hard drive
Now how Starfield you will have to move vast amounts of information from one side of your computer to the other, It is normal that Bethesda has set the presence of an SSD on our PC as a practically mandatory requirementthat is, from a solid-state storage unit, so you will have to say goodbye to your old mechanical hard drive that slowed down all of Windows and practically the rest of the tasks that you carried out on a daily basis.
If you still have one of these relics as a unit to install games, like a warehouse where everything fits thanks to the free teras you have, forget about it, because Starfield it might not work for you as it should or pile up the access time and lengthen the load waits too much, until making the experience unbearable.
So keep that in mind and, if you have been thinking for a long time that it is better to have an SSD than the old HDD, well take advantage of the launch of Starfield, which is the best excuse to take your computer to a new level, where load times are practically imperceptible.
