Horizon Forbidden West is going to be gigantic

The expected size of the upcoming PS5 hit Horizon Forbidden West was leaked on Twitter. The sci-fi game will therefore have a more than considerable download size – players should free themselves plenty of space on the SSD for Aloy’s new adventure.

Horizon Forbidden West is undoubtedly one of the most hyped PS5 games in 2022. Aloy’s new adventure is supposed to be expected to be released on February 18th. Now a Twitter account has leaked the game’s memory requirements on the PS5 – as a result, players have to be prepared for a real download cracker.

Horizon Forbidden West needs a lot of storage space

The Twitter account PlayStation Game Size has leaked the size of Horizon Forbidden West: The results are 96.35 GB for the download version on the PS5 – without including a likely day-one patch. With the patch, the sci-fi adventure could easily break the 100 GB mark.

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While players of multiplayer monsters like Call of Duty: Warzone or GTA Online are used to such file sizes, the size for a single player game is anything but ordinary. In comparison, the By the way, the predecessor Horizon Zero Dawn had a file size of 48 GB – on the PS4. This is a considerable leap, even if the file size on the console should potentially be a few GB smaller after the download. According to the tweet, the game will still weigh over 70 GB.

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With Horizon Forbidden West, gamers can look forward to a real blockbuster in 2022 that will take up a good chunk of the PS5’s 825 GB hard drive. With all the other long-awaited games like Elden Ring, Forspoken, Gran Turismo 7, God of War: Ragnarök and Gotham Knights there is a lot to do with the storage capacity of the console in 2022 – luckily, Sony is making it relatively easy to expand the storage space of the PlayStation 5 with an SSD. You can find all information on the topic in our overview article.

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Horizon Forbidden West is expected to have a considerable memory requirement on the PlayStation 5. A tweet announced the download size of the game – the new sci-fi adventure will scratch the 100 GB mark even without the day-one patch.