The Nintendo eShop listing for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD has revealed that the file-size for Retro Studios classic 2D platformer is 8.3GB. Fans haven’t got that long to wait as Donkey and Diddy Kong’s adventure launches on the Nintendo Switch on Thursday. Keep an eye out for our incoming review.
Donkey Kong Country Returns HD file size is 8.3 GB
Huge for a Wii game, for no reason. Inferior to the original in basically all ways, and it will be, always. Dreadful experience. Stick to the original and DKC1-3.
I doubt it’s the Wii game. It’s likely built from the 3DS port which was a pretty huge filesize too (for a 3DS game)
It’s not inferior to the original by any means.
lol so stupid. The SNES games are WAY worse than Returns / Tropical Freeze.
All 5 games are good. Nuff said. I don’t know why people can’t just admit that.
Don’t buy into what the YouTube grifter hacks say.
You mean the game with the cumbersome Wii controls and no extra stages?
Didn’t realize people’s eyes were so sensitive to the graphical differences.
So no added characters or levels but it’s BIGGER than the original??
HD visuals and the 3DS levels.
These shouldn’t DOUBLE the size of the original game or the 3DS version.
Why do you think that?
From what I searched, when a game is remastered, estimate numbers are that file sizes can increase up to 2 or 5 times as HD textures and audio occupy more space. For reference, Metroid Prime was 1.0 GB and the remaster is 6.8 GB. Paper Mario TTYD was 1.1 GB on the Gamecube and 5.1 GB on the Switch.
I saw the Wii version of DKCR was 3747,50 MB (3.66 GB) while the 3DS version was 17691 blocks (2.2 GB).
Seeing how a remastered game can have 2 or 5 times more in size, 8.3 GB is a reasonable size.
Stick to DKC1-3 (the good games).
DKC3? Good?
LMAO
DKC3 is better than DKC1.
DKC1 is the best of the original trilogy. Tropical Freeze is fantastic. I never got to play Returns so I’m excited to try it out.