Final Fantasy 14 Will Be The Biggest Game on Nintendo Switch 2 by Install Size, and Take Up Almost Half of the Console's Entire Memory

Square Enix MMO Final Fantasy 14 volition onshore connected Switch 2 with an almighty thud adjacent month, arsenic its honking instal size volition instrumentality up astir fractional of the console's 256GB memory.

Final Fantasy 14 volition measurement successful astatine 117.2GB erstwhile it launches for Switch 2 connected August 4, an eShop listing for the rubric has present revealed. Here's hoping you person abstraction for it — oregon the fund to bargain a caller SD card.

That's astir treble the game's instal size connected PlayStation 5, which benefits from immoderate clever record compression technology, though akin to the game's representation footprint connected PC. It's a hefty download, though possibly to beryllium expected erstwhile you see the MMO's size and the magnitude of contented that has been added implicit the years.

The upside to each this is that the filesize includes each of the game's erstwhile 5 expansions — Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, Endwalker and Dawntrail — truthful you won't request much abstraction to play immoderate of those. The downside? A sixth expansion, Evercold, is already connected the mode — meaning you'll apt request adjacent much representation abstraction from adjacent January.

Somewhat amusingly, Final Fantasy steadfast Square Enix is nary alien to holding the grounds for the biggest Switch 2 games by representation size. Until the motorboat of Final Fantasy 14, Square Enix's Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth holds the existent grounds (91.8GB) for a azygous game, arsenic good arsenic the grounds for a crippled bundle (the Kingdom Hearts Collection, which includes a trio of titles that measurement successful astatine 131GB total).

Final Fantasy 14 crippled manager Naoki Yoshida suited up successful Bastion armor to instrumentality the signifier astatine Final Fantasy 14 Fan Festival 2026 successful Berlin to corroborate the title's long-awaited Switch 2 motorboat day implicit the weekend, alongside a laundry database of caller updates coming successful the adjacent future. The game's archetypal period connected merchantability volition beryllium offered without immoderate subscription complaint arsenic its servers are stabilized. After this play comes to an end, players volition beryllium required to acquisition a subscription arsenic normal.

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