Installation details of Xbox One launch titles revealed

Thanks to some goof ups at various retailers, a lucky few have managed to get their hands on the Xbox One. One of them, a NeoGAF user with the alias Moonlightswami, has revealed the installation sizes of some of the launch games available for Microsoft’s next-gen consoles. In case you’re thinking this might be a bluff, Moonlightswami has been identified by Microsoft as being one of the few to get the console early.

Some of the installation sizes for the next-gen titles seem reasonable, while others seem straight out unreasonable. While a 20GB for the open-world Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag makes some sense, a 43GB install for NBA 2K14 seems to be too high for a basketball game. However, we still aren’t sure how good these games actually look, so it is entirely possible that the large installation sizes include high-resolution textures as well as high-quality audio.

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Here’s the list of installation sizes for some Xbox One launch games:

• Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag - 20GB
• Battlefield 4 - 33GB
• Call of Duty: Ghosts - 39GB
• Dead Rising 3 - 19GB
• FIFA 14 - 8GB
• Fighter Within - 9.2GB
• Forza Motorsport 5 - 31GB
• Just Dance 2014 - 22GB
• Killer Instinct - 3.4GB
• Lego Marvel Super Heroes
• Lococycle - 13GB
• Madden NFL 25 - 12GB
• NBA 2K14 - 43GB
• NBA Live 14 - 9GB
• Powerstar Golf - 3.9GB
• Ryse: Son of Rome - 34GB
• Skylanders: Swap Force - 15GB
• Xbox Fitness - 246MB
• Zoo Tycoon - 2.6GB
• Zumba: World Party - 24GB

The Xbox One is set to officially hit its first 14 markets on November 22.