{"id":127940,"date":"2022-09-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-137336"},"modified":"2022-09-08T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T16:00:00","slug":"persona-5-royal-switch-eshop-file-size-seemingly-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/08\/persona-5-royal-switch-eshop-file-size-seemingly-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Persona 5 Royal Switch eShop File Size Seemingly Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e120fb0d815ce\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e120fb0d815ce\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Persona5 Royal Joker\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e120fb0d815ce\/persona5-royal-joker.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e120fb0d815ce\/persona5-royal-joker.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Persona5 Royal Joker\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Atlus<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After lots and lots of begging, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/persona_5_royal\">Persona 5 Royal<\/a> will, at last, be coming out on the Switch next month. And for those who are looking to download the game on the eShop, we&#8217;ve got a rough idea of just how much space it&#8217;ll take up.<\/p>\n<p>Spotted on the Japanese eShop, Twitter user <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScrambledFaz\/status\/1567808796843556864\">@ScrambledFaz<\/a> has shared screens of the game&#8217;s listing, with a <strong>12.5GB<\/strong> file size listed on the page. For comparison, on PS4, Persona 5 Royal&#8217;s download size is <strong>37.76GB<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Given that the anime cutscenes take up a large amount of space in the PS4, and they&#8217;ve been scaled down for the Switch version, this has likely cut down a bulk of the game&#8217;s size.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Persona 5 Royal on the Nintendo Switch is 12.5gb, 3 times smaller than the PS4 version <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5hnDYgEV8W\">pic.twitter.com\/5hnDYgEV8W<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Faz | Persona 5 Royal giveaway in pinned (@ScrambledFaz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScrambledFaz\/status\/1567808796843556864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Remember, this isn&#8217;t necessarily the final file size for the game, and these can change in the run-up to release. So things might change. But still, this is a mighty impressive squeeze, and we&#8217;re intrigued to see what the Switch version runs like.<\/p>\n<p>Will Persona 5 Royal steal our hearts? We&#8217;ll find out on 21st October. In the meantime, let us know what you think of the file size in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Atlus After lots and lots of begging, Persona 5 Royal will, at last, be coming out on the Switch next month. And for those who are looking to download the game on the eShop, we&#8217;ve got a rough idea of just how much space it&#8217;ll take up. Spotted on the Japanese eShop, Twitter user [&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-127940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127940","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=127940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}