How Big Xenoblade Chronicles 3's Story DLC Will Actually Be
Monolith Soft's JRPG Xenoblade Chronicles 3, which released July 29, includes Expansion Pass DLC waves that will become available over the next year and a half, most notable of which is a fourth wave that includes a new story and is officially set to release by December 31, 2023. Considering the length of time between now and the release date of the fourth DLC, fans can expect not to receive details about the content anytime soon, but given tidbits of information from a recent interview, players can speculate on the size of its content.
It has been stated by developer Genki Yokota about this third, but not final, Xenoblade Chronicles game, that there would be a new story included at the end of the Expansion Pass, which they are considering making as large in volume of content as the Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna — The Golden Country DLC. The Torna DLC featured a new XBC 2 story that dove into the lives of that game's main characters some 490 years prior and had a 3.2 GB file size, leading to approximately a 20-hour play through time.
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According to the Nintendo interview, Monolith Soft strove for a minimum acceptable volume of content (content added by necessity for the sake of the story world), which includes Xenoblade Chronicles 3's hellish character design. The volume of content also surpasses that of XBC 1 and XBC 2. Yokota also mentioned that they unintentionally made the base game of XC3 larger because they included everything that they wanted, but as with what happened with XBC 2's Torna story (which was initially conceptualized as part of the base game), some content had to be shelved to keep the budget and timeline manageable. So, it is not
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