{"id":110927,"date":"2020-03-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/eb_canada_reminds_us_to_set_aside_24_gb_for_the_xcom_2_collection_on_switch"},"modified":"2020-03-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T12:00:00","slug":"eb-canada-reminds-us-to-set-aside-24-gb-for-the-xcom-2-collection-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/28\/eb-canada-reminds-us-to-set-aside-24-gb-for-the-xcom-2-collection-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"EB Canada Reminds Us To Set Aside 24 GB For The XCOM 2: Collection On Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/833bb68d512a5\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/833bb68d512a5\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/833bb68d512a5\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Nintendo Direct Mini earlier this week revealed a lot of upcoming third-party titles for Switch. 2K, in particular, announced three of its major franchises were en route to the hybrid system. This had a lot of people buzzing until the <em>huge<\/em> download requirements for the physical versions were uncovered.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of this announcement, a 2K press release said the total size of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xcom_2_collection\">XCOM 2: Collection<\/a><\/strong> would &#8220;not exceed 24 GB&#8221; and now a page listing for the upcoming release on the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebgames.ca\/Switch\/Games\/787188\/xcom-2-collection\">EB Games Canada website<\/a> says a download of &#8220;at least 24 GB&#8221; will be required. <em>Slightly different wording, but hey &#8211; it still mentions 24 GB.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Game requires download of at least 24 GB. microSD card recommended (sold separately). Storage requirements may change, visit xcom.com for details.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As stated in the official PR, the XCOM Collection for Switch is being released on an 8 GB cartridge, containing two base missions &#8211; with the rest of the content requiring a download.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about how much space you&#8217;ll need to set aside for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/bioshock_the_collection\"><strong>Bioshock: The Collection<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/borderlands_legendary_collection\"><strong>Borderlands Legendary Collection<\/strong><\/a> in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/buying_bioshock_borderlands_or_xcom_physically_expect_huge_download_requirements\">previous post<\/a>.<br \/><em><br \/>Would you consider a physical game that potentially requires a 24GB download? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] The Nintendo Direct Mini earlier this week revealed a lot of upcoming third-party titles for Switch. 2K, in particular, announced three of its major franchises were en route to the hybrid system. This had a lot of people buzzing until the huge download requirements for the physical versions were uncovered. At the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}