Tetris Forever Switch eShop File Size Revealed Ahead Of Launch

For a sec there, I was expecting 40MB

Five?!
.. it's got history videos and stuff, hasn't it...? The sort of thing you'll watch once and never again.
Could they not have just streamed those. Could've made a documentary and put it on Netflix. Heck, could've just dumped everything on YouTube so everyone can watch and you get bonus Ad-income.
But no..
Five gigs..
That's just stupid. There's really no good reason for that.

@Jayenkai You don’t realize how expensive it would be for them to release this on Netflix for streaming. It’s 5 gigabytes, it’s not going to break the bank when it comes to storage. Also, if they were to just release this on YouTube for nothing, that’s a big selling point of the game gone. Just like the Atari collection, this is a museum piece with way more than just the games, and for people who actually care, it’s great.

@coolioam I'm of the "options win" mindset. I bet the game totals only a couple of hundred Megabytes or thereabouts.
How about a "just the games please" version? But no, everybody gets 5gb of video clogging up their system, and goodness help us all when an update shows up.

Kinda want to get it. But also I am beyond terrible at Tetris, just absolute dog crap. So probably I won't.

I already own Tetris, you know since it's just one game. LOL

I'm soooo hyped for this, love Tetris but never played any of these versions on here and really looking forward to seeing what Alexey Pajitnov has to say about the various games.

Gonna get this one on my PS5 though for the trophies.

I mean, I updated Bloodstained the other day having it on cart, and it was a 6.8gb download. 5 gigs isn't going to break the storage bank. That price will be worth it just for the fun of trying them all out.

No surprise here. Trailers already showed the game will include video's of Alexey Pajitnov & Henk Rogers talking about the origins of Tetris.

When the physical coming more important to me anyway. Int something u would want just the licence too.

@TheBigK iam rubbish at streets of rage. And worms still play it took me three attempts sat morning do third level on WMD. Got Thier in the end but lost a hour of my life in the process too

Digital Eclipse IS still actively trying to convince Wade to do physicals for the Gold Masters, so I'll wait.

@Deviant-Dork There are differences between versions of Tetris, such as which line a Tetrimino falls down or how fast the game gets.

@drypaphmrbro not according to the Tetris company. They're all the same game and count towards the same sales goal which is really dumb

@Jayenkai If you haven't picked up a minimum 32 GB SD card by now, that's on you at this point.
My 512 wouldn't even feel this game.

I wonder what's the big deal. I love Tetris to shreds. But at that price? Without being physical? I don't get it.

@Deviant-Dork : There were even demos of both Puyo Puyo Tetris games in the eShop, basically giving away a bog-standard game of Tetris for free who don't care for the "story" and other modes. 😅

@SillyG IT ALL COUNTS As One Game! LOL

It's too funny. Kinda like how people think Minecraft is the best selling game of all time, when it isn't. It doesn't count as one Nacho. Haha

@Dirty_Croc Expect it.

@Jayenkai I much prefer that the videos are in the game files, because that way the game will be fully playable even in the far future.

@Jayenkai Imagine getting mad at a 5GB game.. When you literally can buy 1TB microSD cards for less than €100.

If the "Game", being made up of mostly 8-bit and 16-bit era games, is fairly small... Let's be generous and presume it's about 256Mb.

The file size being over 5Gb is roughly 20 times the size of the game.

On my Switch, right now, the top 18 games are over 1Gb according to the Data Management page. Some as big as 16Gb Golly gosh!!
But I have TONS of games under that threshold. And don't forget those NSO emulator bundles, each with loads of games in each collection. Compare and contrast those filesizes with this.

Now, imagine if all of those took up 20 times the necessary space.
Imagine that...

I'm not annoyed about having 5Gb games, I'm not "worried" about the storage space. I'm grumbling that the game's taking up WAY more space than the actual game itself should be taking up.

@Jayenkai Except the fact that it's not just a game. It's a collection of games sharing an interesting history. You'd also want to include that history. And honestly, I would want that to be in high res video and pictures. And yes, those take up storage. I also would want to be able to access them without needing to connect to the internet or go to a third party website.

Sure they could make them "dlc" so you could choose not to download them, but it's a lesser package if they did that.

You are complaining that you get something for basically free with your purchase of these games. Complaining that a full package is 5.3GB where some games these days have updates that are 100GB.

But if you don't like it? Don't buy it. Tetis 99 is 1,9GB, Tetris Effect Connected is 4GB.

@sanderev + Puyo Puyo Tetris 1 and 2, can't forget those. (Incidentally, all of those, and Gameboy Tetris from NSO are all on my Switch right now)

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@Deviant-Dork Agreed, mostly for what I said in my prior comment

...I think @WhiteTrashGuy wants this game to be on a cartridge

@drypaphmrbro
I NEEDS IT..... on cartridge... 😉

I love what digital eclipse are doing and have the physical Atari 50 and picked up gold 1 and 2 digital. The only reason was they weren’t that expensive and I’m obsessed with Jeff Minter. I’m not paying 30 quid for this digital. If it were physical I would have bought it already.

I’m up for this collection. Too bad the Tengen version of Tetris is not included since it was not official. I prefer that version over the official version of Tetris.