The surprise yesterday was the incorporation in the iPhone with the beta of iOS 13.1 of Apple Arcade. And I'm sure of the lucky ones who were able to start downloading games last night, some of them will have received a new and unthinkable notification a few days ago: "Storage almost full." Do games take up a lot? Let's see it.
It is expected that within the iOS 13 update will come access to Apple Arcade. It is a payment platform, but the first month of trial is free, so there will be many of us who will sign up, at least to test the games. So far, we have seen that there are only 53 games available (you have here the listing), but the company has already announced that in a few days the catalog will be expanded to more than 100.
9to5Mac He has already downloaded them all, and has shown us some information that is important to take into account:
There is no game that exceeds 4GB in capacity. The heaviest game, at the moment, is the RPG adventure "Variaus Daylife" which occupies 3,8 GB of capacity. Little joke.
The second, with 2,9GB, is "Hot Lava". It's the action game we saw the other day on Keynote. These two take the cake when it comes to download size. Then there are only 5 more games that exceed 2 GB in capacity, such as "Over the Alps", "Spelldrifter" or "Oceanhorn 2". The rest of the list is less scary, with an average size of about 500 MB.
The size of the games will also depend on which device it is going to be used on. A game for iPhone will not occupy the same as for Apple TV. The full download of the 53 available games has been done on a 64GB ipad Pro, and it was completely filled. In total, all the games took up almost 50GB.
Taking into account that there are still almost 50 games to go, from the outset, We can estimate that the entire catalog of games available at the start will exceed 100 GB in capacity.
If you are into games and you plan to subscribe to Apple Arcade, you will no longer be able to say that of… «if I have 64 GB to spare, I have everything in icloud»….