Alan Wake 2 Size on PlayStation 5 Revealed; Weighs in at Nearly 80GB

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The Alan Wake 2 size on PlayStation 5 has been revealed ahead of the game's digital launch later this week.

Remedy's long-awaited sequel to 2010's Alan Wake is releasing on October 27 with the pre-load going live tomorrow (for those who pre-ordered the game). As covered earlier this year, the game will only be made available digitally to be able to polish the game right down the wire. In addition, Remedy said that this will allow the studio and publisher to keep the price somewhat in check.

"As creatives obviously, by going digital-only it does allow us more time to polish the game", Remedy's Sam Lake said in an interview with Eurogamer back in June of this year. "A significant amount of weeks actually. Because otherwise, the game that goes on the disc, obviously it has to be playable without a patch. We didn't want to release something that we weren't proud of basically, and that we didn't want players to play. So hopefully this way we can give you a better version of the game."

So just how much data needs to be downloaded to be able to play the game? Well, on PlayStation 5, players will need to download 79.775GB of data (version 1.000.001) (thank you PlayStation Game Size). Exact file sizes on other platforms haven't been revealed, but according to the game's official PC requirements, those playing on PC will need 90GB of free SSD space.

The Xbox Series X version of the game will likely require roughly the same amount of free space.

Alan Wake launches globally (digitally) on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5 on October 27. Those wondering how the game will run on consoles (with the rather beefy PC requirements in mind), won't need to worry about performance - according to Remedy Entertainment's Thomas Puha, the game is