Although its large size should come as no surprise – the last mainline Gran Turismo game, Gran Turismo Sport, takes up close to 100GB with all of its patches and updates. The fact that Gran Turismo 7 doesn’t appear to take advantage of that compression tech will be disappointing to those particularly concerned about their SSD. Smaller files mean you can store plenty of games on your console at once, and don’t have to factor SSD space into your purchasing decisions, or rotate through your collection of single-player titles while humongous live-service games eat up the majority of your space. With triple-A games becoming increasingly greedy in their demands on players’ SSDs and hard drives, the continued implementation of Sony’s compression tech would be welcome. Similarly, it provides an advantage over the Xbox Series X, with games like Control: Unlimited Edition taking up 42.5GB on Microsoft’s console, but requiring only 26GB on Sony’s.

Subnautica, for example, will take up 14GB of space on PS4, but only 3.5GB on the PS5. Using the compression tech, which has been dubbed Kraken, PS5 games can require significantly less storage space than their PS4 equivalents. Not only does the console’s SSD load games faster than the hard drives of past console generations, but the boffins at Sony HQ have developed a system to reduce the required file size of the console’s games. PC and Xbox players aren’t able to play the game at all in fact, since the Gran Turismo series has. It’s somewhat surprising that the PS5 version of Gran Turismo 7 doesn’t appear to take advantage of Sony’s SSD compression tech. Unfortunately for fans on Xbox, GT7 on is not on Game Pass for either the PC or Xbox version.

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