Tekken 8 Needs 100 GB On PC, But It Won’t Require SSD Memory

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Tekken Project has shared the system requirements for Tekken 8, and two big details pop up immediately.

The first one, as reported by Eurogamer, is that the title is a giant 100 GB. It’s likely that it will have the same filesize on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. It’s also likely that with each season that comes in, that filesize will only get larger and larger.

It’s a natural consequence of all the content that Tekken Project is adding to Tekken 8. More than just a fighting game with the usual expected set of offline and online modes and features, they have taken it to the next level with Tekken Fight Lounge.

Now, the avatars may look like a poor man’s copy of what’s available in Street Fighter 6’s Battle Hub, but as many previews point out, Tekken 8 may have the best virtual online lobby of any modern fighter yet. While Capcom’s lobbies are very geared towards a competitive slant, the Tekken Fight Lounge is particularly designed to foster a sense of community.

The second one may not seem obvious to hardcore fighting game fans, or even most media, but even in 2023, an upcoming fighting game like Tekken 8 is not requiring SSD storage.

Now, for the moment, a very select number of games need SSD storage. Those games are designed so that they would take full advantage of the speed of SSDs, but to do so, they do not perform at an acceptable level on slower hard disk drives. In theory, it’s possible to design games so that they could use hard disk drives and also be optimized for SSDs, but few examples of that have emerged.

Tekken 8 is following the lead of the games that released just before it, with Mortal Kombat 1 and Street Fighter 6, not to require SSD storage. This is a good thing for budget minded gamers, since