Resident Evil 4 Remake File Size Revealed

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The highly anticipated Resident Evil 4 remake releases later this month and the requisite amount of hard drive space that players will need to keep free for the game’s installation is 67 GB. The Resident Evil 4remake installation file has taken some by surprise, given that it is much larger than any previous Resident Evil remake, and is also even larger than some of the more recent entries in the survival horror series.

Late last year, the system requirements needed for players to run the Resident Evil 4 remake on PC were revealed, so gamers already had some idea of what the remake will aim to deliver on a technical level. However, the actual size of the installation file had not been made public, with Capcom only revealing it now via the Xbox store, where the game is available to pre-load.

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The file size of the Resident Evil 4 remake is a whopping 67GB, at least on Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S. However, that file size will most likely be consistent across all platforms. Often, the file size given by studios is a bare minimum figure, with a larger total file size being entirely possible once post-release patches are made available.

While it may not be as large as a Grand Theft Auto game or a Call of Duty title, a 67 GB install for a Resident Evil title is significant. For the sake of providing some perspective, the recently released Gold Edition of Resident Evil Village, which encompasses all of that game’s updates and DLC, only clocks in at a total size of 30 GB. The Resident Evil 2 remake only requires a fairly meager 23 GB to install, with Resident Evil 7 coming in at around 23GB also. With that being said, Resident Evil 4 is one of the longest games in the