Weird Xbox Glitch Claims Halo Infinite Update Has Absurdly Large File Size
The latest entry in the long-running Halo series is a big game, but the file size still manages to keep itself below the competition. One player, however, encountered a confusing issue with the Xbox download screen that claimed an update for Halo Infinite is several thousand times the size of the game itself.
Halo Infinite launched late last year to positive reception, with high praise directed at its free-to-play multiplayer component, which was playable ahead of the main campaign. The campaign is also generally regarded as the best developer 343 Industries has put out yet, as it does new things while maintaining the feel of older campaigns.
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Player YOLO_Y33T shared an image of a strange problem with an update to Halo Infinite; despite the time estimate displaying a reasonable 21 minutes and 40 seconds, the update size estimation displays a 16,777,215.96 terabyte download. For perspective, that is over 17 billion gigabytes, over 350 million times Halo Infinite's initial install size of 48.42 GB total. A game that big would not fit on even business-level equipment, much less an Xbox Series console.
Fortunately the issue appears purely cosmetic; YOLO_Y33T shared in a later comment that the download was somehow successful. Most likely the number displayed was different from the system's actual estimation of the download size. Real game file sizes are getting absurdly massive, but hopefully sizes that go above a terabyte are still many years off.
While Halo Infinite's actual size of about 48 GB is relatively modest compared to other recent games, it still takes up a significant chunk of the Xbox Series X's limited internal storage. This would be less of
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