In non April Fool’s news of a most shocking nature, new details have slipped out that reveal the upcoming Batman: Arkham Knight to be a game that is bigger than an entire book of yo mama jokes. We do advise any readers with sensitive constitutions or sissy-boy tolerance levels for high bandwidth downloads, to not read further. If you don’t want to be cool that is. CHICKEN!
Right now, you can grab a digital pre-order of the game. Which clocks in at a size of 48.7 gigabytes of hard drive real estate. Don’t believe me? Here’s proof on this mirth-filled day, captured this morning from my PS4:
Holeee crap. Arkham Knight isn’t the only game guilty of this however. The Last Of Us, GTA V Definitive Edition and The Order have all boasted download sizes in the dozens of gigabytes range, as if high-resolution textures, new graphical engines and crisper audio were some sort of reason for the bigger games. Shocking stuff, I know.
Here’s how long it’ll take you to download the game then, based on your ADSL landline. Warning, it makes for some grim figures:
- 1 Mbit – 116.12 hours
- 2 Mbit – 58 hours
- 4 Mbit – 29 hours
- 10 Mbit – 11.3 hours
- 20 Mbit – 5.4 hours you bastard
- 40 Mbit – I hate you
That’s a pretty big game then, no joke. As for the Xbox One version, we’re making an uneducated guess that you’ll have to duct-tape two of those console together in order to have enough hard drive space available.
Last Updated: April 1, 2015
Loftus
April 1, 2015 at 12:34
much better just to go and get the physical copy of the game
*starts handing out duct-tape
Ranting Raptor
April 1, 2015 at 12:38
*Day 1 patch as big as the game releases
Blood Emperor Trevor
April 1, 2015 at 12:38
It’s true, it’s damn true.
Morls
June 24, 2015 at 20:14
Just bought a physical copy and have a 3 Gb patch this is bullshit
Blood Emperor Trevor
April 1, 2015 at 12:34
IT’S BAT BASTARD!
Blood Emperor Trevor
April 1, 2015 at 12:35
I want my baby back, baby back, baby back, unbroken.
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 12:40
LOL
Axon1988
April 1, 2015 at 12:55
Get into my belly!
Ranting Raptor
April 1, 2015 at 12:56
Get into mah batcave!
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 12:59
That’s rather terrifying XD
Blood Emperor Trevor
April 1, 2015 at 13:00
Why does that remind me of South Park – The Stick of Truth…
Cyberats
April 2, 2015 at 01:15
Who ate Robin ?
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 12:56
That header is a bit more convincing than TDKR
Blood Emperor Trevor
April 1, 2015 at 12:57
The Batsuit obviously incorporates Wonder-Bra technology.
Corrie
April 1, 2015 at 13:02
Lucious Really did a wonder on that Suit must’ve improved the Missile Proof tech
Also now no one will Suspect Bruce Wayne since he ain’t fat
Cyberats
April 2, 2015 at 01:15
Manzier or The Bro ?
Ranting Raptor
April 1, 2015 at 12:36
I’ll just leave this here
Cyberats
April 2, 2015 at 01:23
The Poser fatman would get such a trashing.
The actors are so lousy the name cheesy does not apply.
Gadgets don’t help you fly without an airplane nor swing from buildings without webs.
Time to bury a Joker for dishing too much cowpie & cheese in the form of rich man does it all.
BRILLIANT !!!
Greylingad
April 1, 2015 at 12:37
Bleeeaaarrgggghhhh!!! Aah, used breakfast now available on my desk… only used once this morning, was regurgitated upon sighting of header….
Cyberats
April 2, 2015 at 01:23
They might put that in his toolbelt soon, who knows, it might help him fly some day.
R4ziel
April 1, 2015 at 12:39
Roflcopter, these poor peasants complaining that their silly games are becoming as large as the big boy games.
For games to look as good as they do they need all the textures and that unfortunately takes some space.
Oh and, PC Master Race FTW
Hammersteyn
April 1, 2015 at 12:45
Ooh peasants. yeah, apply water to burn area
Ir0nseraph
April 1, 2015 at 12:46
LoL
Blood Emperor Trevor
April 1, 2015 at 12:47
Yeah, kinda ignores that the PC version will probably be an even bigger dl than that. I’d rather not win lol.
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 12:48
It would however be amusing if the PC download is less. Not likely, but still amusing.
Corrie
April 1, 2015 at 13:00
*Steam Download Compression*
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 13:02
I actually forgot about that. Yeah, that’s actually very likely then. hahahaha.
R4ziel
April 1, 2015 at 12:50
You dont see articles about how big PC games are right? Were used to it because our games have always looked impressive (for the most part).
Ive downloaded Mods for Arma as big as some people on Console’s games.
I also think its quite large, but that is the norm nowadays and its only going to get bigger.
Star Citizen is rumored to be roughly 100GB when its done…
Blood Emperor Trevor
April 1, 2015 at 12:56
We should start calling the PC the WaitStation then instead of the PS 😀
R4ziel
April 1, 2015 at 12:58
Im going to have to agree with this against my better judgement.
Shan
April 1, 2015 at 13:04
Download for 10 days or install 10 dvd’s……
Corrie
April 1, 2015 at 13:10
10 DVD’s would be faster probably 2-3 Hours compared to yeah 384kbs
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 13:41
well 4 discs takes about 30 minutes on my pc and its not really a monster machine.
10 should be just over an hour.
considering most people have the minimum linespeed of 2mb, 100gb at 200kbs, could take a fair bit longer.
Ranting Raptor
April 1, 2015 at 12:39
Hey look! Fat Bastard ate Darryn whole!
Ryanza
April 1, 2015 at 12:40
Take into account that most South Africans don’t have uncapped unshapped internet. Seems like there’s been a big push from ISP’s to get users to download between 12am to 6am but for the most part 6pm to 6am download time is what you will get with uncapped. So you looking at 10 days on a 2mb line.
Unless you want to pay R130 for 60gb capped internet per game download.
And if you have no internet there is always The Witcher 3 with NO-DRM coming. The LoveBringer.
http://static.cdprojektred.com/thewitcher/news/witcher3/big/witcher3_en_1427880609.jpg
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 12:41
This looks it should be The Sims.
Jonah Cash
April 1, 2015 at 12:50
How big is the Witcher 3 going to be to download?
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 12:51
Bigger than his mamma. ;P
Greylingad
April 1, 2015 at 12:53
Enough data to weigh in tons/megatons?
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 12:54
😀
Hammersteyn
April 1, 2015 at 12:53
As big as Batman in the header?
Ryanza
April 1, 2015 at 12:53
around 50gb
Greylingad
April 1, 2015 at 13:01
That much data has a presence, you can actually feel it moving to your hard drive, like it has a conscience…
Ryanza
April 1, 2015 at 13:08
Well The Witcher 3 game is going to do a lot of thinking with it’s 36 endings and god knows how many ways to get there.
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 13:25
36?
THERE ARENT ENOUGH COLOURS IN THE RAINBOW FOR THAT.
Skoobaz
April 7, 2015 at 14:14
It must be SVGA
Jonah Cash
April 1, 2015 at 15:40
So I need to buy a game and bandwidth on PC… that is nice!! Luckily this game was free so no problem here but I will have to make a plan for the future!!
Ryanza
April 1, 2015 at 17:42
Just convince someone you know to buy the retail PC version of the game and then just borrow the install discs.
Kensei Seraph
April 1, 2015 at 12:57
I recognise that leftmost hairstyle… Didn’t it belong to Triss?
And that second hairstyle… I remember seeing it when creating a character in Oblivion once I had installed a bunch of mods.
Ryanza
April 1, 2015 at 12:58
Geralt makes a sexy Triss.
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 13:24
second is yeneffer, third is i dunno, maybe ciri when
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 13:23
lacks topknot
Greylingad
April 1, 2015 at 13:49
10/10 would bang…
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 12:42
If you have a 4meg line it’s not so bad. Hopefully you can pre-load the games on the consoles too like you can with pc.
DrKiller
April 1, 2015 at 15:18
I was at my parents’ place this weekend and they had 4mb… Nearly killed myself 🙁
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 12:44
I still can’t understand how they thought 500gig for a HDD on a console is decent in this day and age.
Ranting Raptor
April 1, 2015 at 12:44
You assume they thought
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 12:44
😀
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 12:44
They didn’t. They saw $$$ in selling extra drives, branded.
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 12:46
Especially for the “entertainment centre” Xbone.
Ryanza
April 1, 2015 at 12:48
These consoles were designed to be cheap. They were not designed to be cutting edge.
Ranting Raptor
April 1, 2015 at 12:49
Still, one would expect at least 1TB
Hammersteyn
April 1, 2015 at 12:51
It’s funny, Ive still not run out of space on my 500GB. But mostly because I delete games I dont play anymore. And we can make backups now so we dont have to download it all over again
DrKiller
April 1, 2015 at 15:20
How do you make backups? Or is this a PS4 feature? I figured redownloading it will just be faster.. for me atleast 😛
Hammersteyn
April 1, 2015 at 15:36
PS4 feature, have yet to try it
Ryanza
April 1, 2015 at 12:51
I don’t think they get much price reduction with hard drives. So the bigger the HDD the more it will cost. They were trying to make a profit for get go.
Ranting Raptor
April 1, 2015 at 12:56
Still don’t agree 100%. I see what you are saying, but at the time they were released, the price difference was about $30 between a 500GB and 1TB drive (Retail price). So I don’t think it would have made that much of a difference. Not considering the discount they would get due to large order numbers and purchasing through their own suppliers that sell at a cheaper rate than retail .
Ryanza
April 1, 2015 at 12:57
$30 times 20 million units?
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 12:58
more like $10 per unit. Bulk means discounts. And retail prices are hugely marked up from initial assembly cost.
Ryanza
April 1, 2015 at 12:59
I wasn’t being accurate. Just making a point.
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 13:00
Pro tip: when making points, be as close to the truth as possible. Always go facts.
Who knows, people might start believing your points.
Ryanza
April 1, 2015 at 13:01
This is Ryanza. Facts? lol. I just wing it and hope it hits something.
Blood Emperor Trevor
April 1, 2015 at 13:02
Go with facts? HAHA! What a n00b!
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 13:03
Ssssssssssh. Don’t give the secret away!
Greylingad
April 1, 2015 at 13:04
Boof! In the plums….
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 13:22
oh derp, ninjad.
Ranting Raptor
April 1, 2015 at 13:09
That’s 30$ at retail. Remember they pay a lot less. Maybe for Sony and MS the price difference would have been $10 which could easily have been worked in to the console price
Ryanza
April 1, 2015 at 13:14
$10 times 20 million is still a big fucking saving. Plus profits they make from selling HDD upgrades.
Ranting Raptor
April 1, 2015 at 13:18
Agreed. But again, they could have given a 1TB version for 10 – 30 USD more and people would have bought it. Still would have profited immensely.
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 13:22
its 30$ for retail.
bulk buying, buying directly from manufacturer and striking deals, would probably drop that 30$ down to about 10$ on the console manufacturers side.
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 13:17
the bigger the HDD the more gb you get per rand. increasing size makes for more efficient costing.
BUT
bigger hardrives have faults and die like, all the time.
i think 1tb would have been ideal, 500gb HDDs are more stable and consistant, but the difference in performance and consistancy between a 500gb and a 1tb is negligible. going anything over 1tb however, is like asking for explosions.
Corrie
April 1, 2015 at 12:49
Bwahaha Agreed
Blood Emperor Trevor
April 1, 2015 at 12:50
I don’t know, the PS4 has pretty sharp edges. The Xbone looks more rounded.
Ranting Raptor
April 1, 2015 at 12:50
lol
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 12:50
Cutting edge would be a 10TB hard drive.
1TB is old.
500GB is just ancient.
Corrie
April 1, 2015 at 12:51
Then everyone could store all their Free* PS+ Gold Games
*You still have to pay for subscription
Greylingad
April 1, 2015 at 12:51
Pre historic sounds about right….
Ryanza
April 1, 2015 at 12:52
Cutting edge would be a much better CPU and little bit of a better GPU. But you got RAM.
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 12:53
Modern games run more on GPU than RAM, so that RAM isn’t going to help much.
Ryanza
April 1, 2015 at 12:55
The RAM, to me, is so that the OS doesn’t lag in it’s chops like on the Xbox 360. Sony just went with GDDR5 RAM as a fuck you to Microsoft.
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 12:56
No, GDDR5 is for gaming only. Not for multitasking. Xbox focus = entertainment centre. PS4 focus = games only.
And they both have their pros and cons.
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 12:55
It does help the Xbox though, multitasking.
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 12:56
Very true
Corrie
April 1, 2015 at 12:57
They Sure do
Look at that Majestic Animal
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 13:03
the problem is that bigger isnt better.
when i built my PC, i opted for 2x 1tb hardrives, instead of one 2tb or 4tb.
bigger hardrives consistantly tend to have problems more often.
size isnt consistant with age, tech is. 10tb isnt cutting edge, SSD’s are.
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 13:27
No, I completely agree with you there. But the discussion is about size. And whether there are one of two hard drives in there, it’s still just 500gb, which is very little.
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 13:35
agreed, 1tb would be great, no one would complain atleast.
Cyberats
April 2, 2015 at 01:29
1TB SSDs are out there, the only restraint is price, around $400-$450 each.
Hammersteyn
April 1, 2015 at 12:45
So get it on disc….oh right….PC gamers
Corrie
April 1, 2015 at 12:49
Hey!! I’m getting the Disc, I doubt it’ll be digital only after that rumor
Hammersteyn
April 1, 2015 at 12:50
How many discs on PC?
Corrie
April 1, 2015 at 12:52
I’m guessing 4, wolfenstein pretty much points it out
Hammersteyn
April 1, 2015 at 12:52
O_o just dont lose one
Corrie
April 1, 2015 at 12:54
Eh have Steam :p aswell as a external incase, and don’t really lose them since they go back into their case after install unlike some other “Cutting Edge Devices”
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 12:55
No disk, no worries. 😀
Corrie
April 1, 2015 at 12:56
I can change a game faster than any Console gamer ever could all with 1 step :Click :p
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 13:00
hahahaha 😀
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 12:57
CoD AW was the same size and was on 4.
same with DA:I.
4 discs is a pretty safe bet.
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 13:28
Shadow of Mordor was also 4, and that was for 45Gb.
DrKiller
April 1, 2015 at 15:21
Wasn’t CoD AW 6? I just remember putting in the first disc and then I was like “ooooh fk it, I’ll just download it”
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 16:40
now that you mentioned it, i just picked my box up and there are 6.
DrKiller
April 1, 2015 at 16:42
Thought so 🙂
It was actually faster for me to download it than installing it 🙁
Hammersteyn
April 2, 2015 at 07:31
O_o
Kensei Seraph
April 1, 2015 at 12:45
I’m struggling to get 5kbps on my 2 meg line at home.
I wonder how long those downloads will take on a Telkom line?
Hammersteyn
April 1, 2015 at 12:46
Wow time to switch?
Kensei Seraph
April 1, 2015 at 12:54
It was fine until the start of this week.
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 12:46
Call Telkom.
Ask for support.
Your download will be finished before they take your call.
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 12:47
LOL!!!
Hammersteyn
April 1, 2015 at 12:49
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/c3/c327a4a03eb468a114a4c948de59abcbca86739b12e318d0aa297f1e61caf5ff.jpg
Ranting Raptor
April 1, 2015 at 12:48
Roughly 1690 hours at that speed
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 12:50
So just on 70 days. Could wait for the Steam sale to reduce the cost by 50% before it finished.
Ranting Raptor
April 1, 2015 at 12:50
hahahahaha. GG
DrKiller
April 1, 2015 at 15:22
by the time that finished downloading there will be a sequel already 🙂
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 12:56
time to switch to a capped account.
i switched from a 2mb business uncapped, to a 4mb capped 120/480gb account (with webafrica) with no increase in monthly cost.
downloads have been rock solid consistant, ping doesnt flutter at all and no throttling. capped is legit.
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 13:01
Agreed. I decided on capped over uncapped because of line speeds, and I get almost 100% line speed at all times (390kbps – 410kbps download on a 4mbit line)
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 13:35
i usually sit around 330kb/s, which is fast enough for me tbh, but it doesnt waver, never drops, never increases, consistant as.
but i was more impressed with when i had origin downloading the DLC for DA:I and Steam downloading the DLC for BL:TPS at the same time.
each were going at 350kbs, i know origin do some weird magic with compression, but i was still impressed.
my uncapped 2mb account would spike from 50kbs to 300kbs, it was never constant, hated that.
Kensei Seraph
April 1, 2015 at 13:08
Capped may be better but with the amount downloaded…
I think my brother once managed to download over 80 gigs in the first week.
Matthew Holliday
April 1, 2015 at 13:32
if i tried, i could cap the 120gb ez.
but i dont try.
i just download what i want and the 480gb 12pm-6am cap acts as a buffer for the bigger stuff.
my peak downloads per day were around 10gb, but averaged around 3gb per day for normal usage. totalling at around 130gb per month.
the 480gb buffer would be pretty hard to hit though.
if you manage to do 80gb in a week and keep that up consistantly, you would probably recieve a call from your ISP telling you to cut that shit out.
my friends did, in the end, mweb told them they were not welcome and cancelled their account.
most ISPs have an “acceptable usage” policy for uncapped, which they are pretty liberal with and wont divulge the tolerances for.
DrKiller
April 1, 2015 at 15:30
I do 80GBs while I sleep (in one night). haha
Ir0nseraph
April 1, 2015 at 12:47
My PS4 is very happy at this moment after I upgraded it’s hard drive.
Jonah Cash
April 1, 2015 at 12:49
I own all the others on disc, so will get this one disc just to keep the collection up to scratch!!
Pariah
April 1, 2015 at 12:50
Somehow the word scratch isn’t associated positively with disk games.
Jonah Cash
April 1, 2015 at 15:41
Blow at the back of it, it makes it work again!! Wait that is not for discs is it?!
Shan
April 1, 2015 at 12:58
LOL for PC gamers! Imagine how many DVD’s (Laughs) it would take
Greylingad
April 1, 2015 at 13:11
4 actually…just 4…
Captain JJ the damned
April 1, 2015 at 13:28
Four
XenitXTD
April 1, 2015 at 13:42
Hate the two limitations Physical Has,
1) You Almost always have a day one update in this day and age
2) You require the disc to play.
On the second one, it would have been perfect if you could buy the disc install and play without the disc, I am all digital and like being able to switch between games without getting the error that you dont have the correct disc in the drive because lets face it, Its such a drag on that day when you are lazy and just wanna play regardless of how many games you switch between…
Greylingad
April 1, 2015 at 13:45
What? When last did you install a game from a disk and have to play with the disk still in the drive? That’s an old Victorian era culture…
XenitXTD
April 2, 2015 at 07:30
I have XBOX One games Physical and its a requirement (DRM) that the disc be in the drive to play as this is to prevent you from selling the game and still being able to play it… So while the game is installed on the HDD the disc is used to validate it for those that dont have internet connections… I got 4 discs based games with the console… still waiting for them to become heavily discounted on the Digital store so i can make em digital
Greylingad
April 2, 2015 at 09:34
Sheesh…The painstaking life of a gamer…
Brady miaau
April 1, 2015 at 13:48
can you start playing while downloading?
The D
April 1, 2015 at 13:51
On console, you sure can! Once you’ve reached a certain download threshold, you’ll usually be able to jam some of the opening game content.
Brady miaau
April 1, 2015 at 14:03
Yeah, on my Xbox one I could start playing (only one item) Shadows of Mordor from 11%, but DA:I said I can play (say 40% download), but the game started and took me to the download screen.
Michel Simmons
April 1, 2015 at 14:48
I’m good on internet speed and bandwidth with no caps. Not so good on space on my X1. Time to buy an external hard drive.
DrKiller
April 1, 2015 at 15:14
No stress… about 3 hours worth of downloading 🙂
oooh wait… you hate me 🙁
Yanas
April 1, 2015 at 15:19
Gonna have to leave this one running for a while
Klipkop1980
April 1, 2015 at 15:41
I miss my Sega Mega Drive…
Hammersteyn
April 2, 2015 at 07:30
lol yeah, was good times
Travi the Batman
April 1, 2015 at 15:51
*clears throat*
100 Mbit
Wilco Verwiel
April 1, 2015 at 17:11
Ooo Batman you let yourself go… AGAIN!
Cyberats
April 2, 2015 at 01:31
Billionaire gamer Bruce Wayne at his best, again…
The Forgotten One????...
April 2, 2015 at 07:23
Dankje wel voor het volgen zal je niet teleurstellen met mijn comment’s ^^
ArkhamWrath
April 1, 2015 at 18:38
I expect better joke for 1 april 🙂
Cyberats
April 2, 2015 at 01:12
Ah, the natural shape of Bruce Wayne, a mega rich & greedy “gadget user” aka gamer.
Cyberats
April 2, 2015 at 01:14
Batman IS the Dork Knight, ye Dork !
Gr8_Balls_o_KFM_Fire
April 2, 2015 at 11:01
Still looks badass.
I’M BFATMAN
Gr8_Balls_o_KFM_Fire
April 2, 2015 at 11:02
Darren why do you have a US account? What are you hiding?
Devon Stanton
April 2, 2015 at 11:03
How long would it take for a 100mb connection?
Gr8_Balls_o_KFM_Fire
April 2, 2015 at 11:09
1 hour
Give or take
40 Insane Frogs
April 3, 2015 at 15:26
Physical copies win the day!
…. waits for the baseball bat to the knees (This generation’s 2-by-4 the dreaded day one patch)