thimothy said:
Oh shoot a game this big?! How exactly are we going to download this? I don’t see myself downloading it. With my internet speed it might take years to get fully downloaded. 8 to 10 gigabytes, I can’t imagine what graphic features they have added in this version. It wouldn’t even fit in my P C‘s memory. Even if it does, won’t it be awfully slow. It supports ps3 or is it 360? If anyone here tried this out, post a detailed review please.

this is for the ps3
i bought and downloaded this game took me about 2 or 3 hours
the size is because of the games length mostly being around 60 to 100 hours
and nowadays how can your computer not have enough space for this?
i have about 2.5tbs
of course i built my pc
but even pre built computers nowadays have 300gb to 1tb

Edit: Woops, wrong thread.

1. Because the Blu-ray reader is slower at searching around the disc on the PS3 than the DVD reader on the 360, many developers place various things multiple times to decrease load times. (The European disc size is 15.6 GBs, and there have been many times where the PS3 counterpart has been around 15 Gigs while the 360 version would be about 6-8 Gigs due to having data listed multiple times on the disc.)
2. Because of #1, more developers also make the game take up HDD space to decrease load times.
3. A game like Agarest Senki took up 5 gigs on the HDD space because it decreased load times, but that doesn't mean the game itself cannot be condensed.
4. There would have to be a lot of work on the game data to make sure it isn't riddled with glitches while keeping the 8-10 GB file size, but a lot of the data is just repeating, so all they would have to do is tell the console to read different things for a bulk of the data. At least that's from what little I know about game development. (I know when Rockstar took out the Hot Coffee data from GTA: San Andreas it messed up the game, so there were glitches like there was no tomorrow compared to the original version. Let's hope Aksys doesn't pull a Rockstar.)
And finally:
5. the data saved on the HDD is already 5 GB from the normal disc. Adding an additional 3-5 won't make much of a difference, except for download time, so stop complaining unless you have extremely slow internet access.

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
http://www.bandwidthplace.com/

Averaged around 20000kbps, so I guess it's only a few hours wait? That is, once I finally get a PS3.

Let's assume 25kb/s average download speed (reasonable for just about anyone, I'd assume). That's 90MB/hr (25*60*60/1000). For 10GB, that's 111hrs (10/.09), or about 4.5 days. Most people with a cable modem or DSL can get at least 10x that speed (or 250kb/s), so it'd take no more than 12hrs, or half a day. That's pretty reasonable. Even for the 25kb/s people, keep in mind that shipping takes 3-5 days as well. I don't really see what the problem is here. I download 5GB+ stuff on a regular basis.

It might be nothing special for someone in Los Angeles, but where I live, I'm lucky if I can get 60kb/s when I'm downloading. I'd kill to get 500. 10 gigs would take me a couple months to download.

I guess I'll still import the European version eventually. I don't have a 360 and the added stuff for the American version don't sound too important.

Finally some of those 30 gigs of space of my ps3 will be of use, i barely even used 7gigs with game installs

edit: thanks Belisarius for the official word on it, really do appreciate it.

I asked around, and it looks like the final size is going to be somewhere around 8-10 gigs. It sounds like a lot, I know, but I've been downloading the debug ROMs at home to take the load off our office internet, and they only take a few hours--I usually start them when I leave for work, and they're done by lunch. My internet connection is nothing special either--about 500 kb/s on a good day.

So there you have it. 8-10 gigs. We should a more solid number closer to release.