Forza Motorsport 7 Takes Up Offensive Amount of Hard Drive Space

Forza 7 is shaping up to be a tremendous showcase for Microsoft and its Xbox One X. The game will be able to run in true 4K at 60 frames per second on Microsoft's powerful new console. While it will be awesome to show off such an incredible-looking game to all of your friends, all of those sparkly effects and incredibly detailed textures will cost you something dear: Hard drive space. A lot of it.

It's been revealed that Forza 7 will require a minimum of 100GB of hard drive space in order to install. This is across the board whether you're playing on PC or the Xbox One X. This, we think you'll agree, is an absolutely absurd file size, and it's hard to believe that any game would take up that much space, even with all of those ultra HD assets.

This is why 1TB hard drives are about to become the norm for bare minimum storage. Imagine, if you had a 500GB console, downloading this game will take up 1/5 of the entire hard drive of a machine that's supposed to last your many years. Hell, after a a few patches or a single expansion, it's not unreasonable to assume that Forza 7 could take up upward of 300GB or more before it's all said and done.

At the time, it looks like Forza 7 is the biggest launch game ever. There are a few games on Xbox One that take up similar amounts of space, but only after tons of downloaded patches. Gears of War 4 and all of its updates is sitting right around 120GB, where Halo 5 and all of its patches only take up about 100GB. Even those games seem like storage hogs, but a 100GB day-one occupancy is going to make for some serious storage concerns going forward.

Can we expect this of every Xbox One X game that boasts native 4K? What's going to happen when the larger open world games come along that boast 4K visuals? We can't imagine how much space The Witchers and the Final Fantasies of the world are going to to take up once the 4K craze takes hold.

Start looking into those external hard drives, folks. You're going to need them.

(via VG247)