Dying Light 2 Is Going To Be Twice As Big On Xbox Than On PS5

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Dying Light 2: Stay Human definitely stirred up feelings when Techland proudly announced that players would need around 500 hours to fully see the game. Cue much discourse about the ever-growing length of games (we're looking at you Assassin's Creed) and a plethora of op-eds about how time is a wasting when it comes to games. Naturally, TheGamer stayed clear of such rumination...oh...wait...we didn't. But anyhow the Dying Light 2 team eventually cleared things up with a clarification that the game's main story will only take roughly 20 hours, while adding in all the side quests will take players up to 80 hours.

Aside from the length of the game, another detail about Dying Light 2 has been revealed. And that is the file size. It seems Dying Light 2, soothingly, won't be taking up too much space in the precious SSDs of players on PS5. But on Xbox it's looking like a different story.

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According to a recent leak, the official file size for Dying Light 2 on the PS5 will be 32.5 GB, which isn't too big considering the open-world nature of Dying Light and the upgraded visuals for its sequel. PC players meanwhile can expect a file size of 60 GB. But over on Xbox, Dying Light 2 will take up 72 GB, which is more than twice as big as the PS5 version.

This gulf between file sizes on Xbox and PlayStation consoles is pretty dramatic and not the best of news for Xbox owners considering the premium that SSDs can command for the Microsoft console. Now it could be the case of uncompressed cut-scenes on one platform but not the other, or just assets not being compiled in the initial download, meaning later updates could reduce the overall file size. But this is just