Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle File Size Revealed, It's Shockingly Small

The game details for Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle have appeared on the UK Nintendo eShop (via Reddit), and while there isn't any breaking information about the game itself, the file size was a big surprise. And by "big," I mean tiny. The entire game will only take up 2.3GB of space on your Nintendo Switch, which is incredibly news -- especially for those of you who managed to grab a Switch recently and haven't had time to pick up a microSD card. I mean, you still have well over a month until Kingdom Battle launches, but at least now you know you won't have to freak out about storage.

While this game was actually developed by Ubisoft under Nintendo's supervision, small file sizes for incredible-looking games is something that Nintendo is known and revered for. The engineers and developers at Nintendo are freaking wizards, producing games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe which are packed with content and will make your jaw drop with their presentation, while only taking up a few gigs of space. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for example, was a little under 7 gigs, while Breath of the Wild, the biggest open world game Nintendo has ever produced, weighs in at only 13.4GB. Compared to most modern open-world games, that's a miracle.

How exactly Kingdom Battle has managed to squeeze itself into a digital package less than 3 gigs in size I don't quite understand. It could be that that all of the cinematic cutscenes are very cleverly compressed, and since the majority of the gameplay will unfold across static (yet living) battlefields, there may not be a very large overworld to render and store.

We're excited either way, but now this brings up a new dilemma: Do we buy the digital version so we can always have Kingdom Battle ready to boot up at a moment's notice, or do we buy the physical version for the sheer satisfaction of holding that colorful box and having it as a collector's item of sorts? This is an internal debate that will likely emotionally ravage us until August 29 rolls around.