{"id":18756,"date":"2023-05-08T21:06:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T12:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=18756"},"modified":"2023-05-08T21:06:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T12:06:20","slug":"20230508-18756","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo gives a heads up on Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s large 16GB file size"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><br>Nintendo has released a notice regarding the amount of free space that will be necessary to download the digital version of <strong>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom<\/strong>. The game\u2019s file size is greater than its prequel, Breath of the Wild, and is rather large even when compared to other games on the Switch. This has resulted in a somewhat uncommon notice being delivered to prospective players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tweet notifying gamers of the file size also includes a guide on how to free up more space on your Switch, as well as some important points to keep in mind when purchasing a microSD card. It appears Nintendo intends to encourage gamers to make sure they have enough space for the game while they patiently await its release.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30c0\u30a6\u30f3\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u7248\u306e\u300e\u30bc\u30eb\u30c0\u306e\u4f1d\u8aac\u3000\u30c6\u30a3\u30a2\u30fc\u30ba \u30aa\u30d6 \u30b6 \u30ad\u30f3\u30b0\u30c0\u30e0\u300f\u3092\u30c0\u30a6\u30f3\u30ed\u30fc\u30c9\u3059\u308b\u306b\u306f\u300116.3GB\u306e\u7a7a\u304d\u5bb9\u91cf\u304c\u5fc5\u8981\u3067\u3059\u3002<br><br>\u672c\u4f53\u3084microSD\u30ab\u30fc\u30c9\u306e\u7a7a\u304d\u5bb9\u91cf\u304c\u4e0d\u8db3\u3057\u3066\u3044\u308b\u5834\u5408\u306f\u3001\u672c\u4f53\u306e\u300c\u8a2d\u5b9a\u300d\u2192\u300c\u30c7\u30fc\u30bf\u7ba1\u7406\u300d\u304b\u3089\u3001\u30bd\u30d5\u30c8\u306e\u30c7\u30fc\u30bf\u3092\u6574\u7406\uff08\u6d88\u53bb\uff09\u3059\u308b\u3053\u3068\u304c\u3067\u304d\u307e\u3059\u3002 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9upQtDN6nK\">https:\/\/t.co\/9upQtDN6nK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u4efb\u5929\u5802\u30b5\u30dd\u30fc\u30c8 (@nintendo_cs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nintendo_cs\/status\/1655409660290297857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>Tweet Translation:<br><\/strong>16.3GB of free space will be required to download the digital version of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.<br>If you do not have enough space on your console or microSD card, you can archive software data by navigating to the System Settings menu on the console and then selecting Data Management.<\/font><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Nintendo probably felt that this tweet was necessary due to Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s relatively large size. The game was originally expected to be 18GB, but it appears that the developers were able to further optimize it since that time (<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230210-17822\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">related article<\/a>). That said, a game\u2019s file size changing from when pre-orders open to right before release is not a rare occurrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the game still weighs in at a sizable 16.3GB\u2014almost 2GB more than Breath of the Wild\u2014which is likely due in part to Link\u2019s new adventure expanding to the skies above Hyrule. It is also bigger than other recent Nintendo titles, such as Fire Emblem Engage (13.8GB), Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (14GB), and Bayonetta 3 (14.5GB). Incidentally, when Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was released last year, Nintendo sent out a similar <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nintendo_cs\/status\/1552852673145507840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweet<\/a> advising gamers on the free space required to download the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is scheduled for release on May 12. Those who have already pre-ordered the digital version of the game should make sure that they have the 16.3GB of space necessary before it\u2019s time to download it.<br><br><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>Written by. Marco Farinaccia based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20230508-246550\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a> (original article&#8217;s publication date: 2023-05-08 14:54 JST)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has released a notice regarding the amount of free space that will be necessary to download the digital version of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":18760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-18756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-zelda"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nintendo gives a heads up on Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s large 16GB file size - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nintendo has released a notice regarding the amount of free space that will be necessary to download the digital version of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nintendo gives a heads up on Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s large 16GB file size - AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nintendo has released a notice regarding the amount of free space that will be necessary to download the digital version of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-08T12:06:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230508-246550-header.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sayoko Narita\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sayoko Narita\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nintendo gives a heads up on Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s large 16GB file size - AUTOMATON WEST","description":"Nintendo has released a notice regarding the amount of free space that will be necessary to download the digital version of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Nintendo gives a heads up on Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s large 16GB file size - AUTOMATON WEST","og_description":"Nintendo has released a notice regarding the amount of free space that will be necessary to download the digital version of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.","og_url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/","og_site_name":"AUTOMATON WEST","article_published_time":"2023-05-08T12:06:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230508-246550-header.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sayoko Narita","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_site":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sayoko Narita","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/"},"author":{"name":"Sayoko Narita","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/6ff2721c450e20970538373b7515eaf6"},"headline":"Nintendo gives a heads up on Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s large 16GB file size","datePublished":"2023-05-08T12:06:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/"},"wordCount":412,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230508-246550-header.jpg","keywords":["Zelda"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/","name":"Nintendo gives a heads up on Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s large 16GB file size - AUTOMATON WEST","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230508-246550-header.jpg","datePublished":"2023-05-08T12:06:20+00:00","description":"Nintendo has released a notice regarding the amount of free space that will be necessary to download the digital version of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230508-246550-header.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230508-246550-header.jpg","width":1200,"height":675},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230508-18756\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"\u30db\u30fc\u30e0","item":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Nintendo gives a heads up on Tears of the Kingdom\u2019s large 16GB file size"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","name":"AUTOMATON WEST","description":"AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization","name":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","width":374,"height":190,"caption":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/AUTOMATON_ENG","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCabvYnvuUUbbGUrxkaFRgSA"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/6ff2721c450e20970538373b7515eaf6","name":"Sayoko Narita","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Narita2-150x150-1-100x100.jpg","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Narita2-150x150-1-100x100.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Narita2-150x150-1-100x100.jpg","caption":"Sayoko Narita"},"description":"JP AUTOMATON writer","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/author\/seiji-narita\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18761,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18756\/revisions\/18761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}