If you've been looking forward to checking out the latest update for Fortnite on Xbox, you may be disappointed to hear that it clocks in at a whopping 80GB - which Epic Games has now acknowledged as an Xbox-specific issue.
In a message on social media earlier today, the team recommended that "players begin the installation process ahead of play time" while they try and figure out what went wrong here. Here's a look at the Twitter (or "X") post:
We've seen this sort of thing before - on rare occasions, games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Watch Dogs: Legion have suffered with significantly larger update sizes on Xbox than PlayStation. For whatever reason, the same situation has happened in this case - Fortnite's latest update is only around 8GB on PS4 and PS5.
Fingers crossed Epic Games will be able to rectify this issue relatively quickly, but if you're desperate to start playing as quickly as possible, it might be worth starting that download right away - it's larger than many AAA games!
Have you run into issues like this on Xbox in the past? Let us know down in the comments down below.
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I would like to see a update on this story. On a techincal level, I would like to know why there is such a difference in update sizes between PS & Xbox. 10x the size is crazy.
@johnK Probably (not so) Smart Delivery™.
I understand some of it will beSonys use of kraken but I doubt it makes that much difference.
@johnK I would be interesting to know the reasons behind it, indeed. Maybe Digital Foundry will catch wind of it and look into it.
Why does it matter? 80gb will take 4 minutes to download . Who cares ???
Smart Delivery is useful, but it would be better if it would let us install a version at our option. I don't want to wear out my expensive internal SSD for games I only play occasionally.
This happened to me on the last couple of major updates where it just makes me install the entire game. Hopefully they can fix this sometime soon.
Smart Delivery doesn't work on mmo games, the servers kicks you out after some minutes of inactivity so the player will resume in main screen which is pointless. This is another issue here and it's literally downloads the whole game again, but why?
@Acidangel111 It's really not, unless you have some kinda NASA WiFi going on. On the Xbox Series X, it's saying 11 hours for 73.13GB.
The only thing I can think of is the timestamps for all the files got changed to most recent date. The Xbox sees these up to date timestamps as brand new files so it downloaded everything.
@Acidangel111 Not even 8gb would take 4 minutes for me. I don't know if you're misinterpreting 80gb, or if you're a time traveler, or if you have the world's greatest router.
@Acidangel111 Despite the time taken (which is a LOT longer than 4 minutes) there's a lot of people who have a download cap (or god forbid a metered connection), and an extra 70gb for no reason could mean you're paying more on your internet bill.
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