[00:01] today's gaming news, physical media fans are calling for a PlayStation boycott. Final Fantasy 14 will be the biggest Switch 2 file size by a wide margin. And Stalker 2's first story expansion has a release date. This your daily fix.
[00:25] [music] gamers to boycott PlayStation for a week in August to send a message that it decision to kill discs in 2028 is unacceptable. The does it play critic of Sony's plan to do away with game discs, issued a call to arms that
[00:39] has been viewed on the platform nearly a million times. The account said, "Sony wants to abandon fans. Let's give them a small taste of their own medicine. for a oneweek PlayStation blackout in August. No login, no play sessions, no
[00:53] purchases on any of Sony's platforms. Since the announcement that it is ending called on Sony to U-turn on its decision, signing online positions and swarming over PlayStation social media posts to express concern about video
[01:06] game preservation and ownership. Moving on, Final Fantasy 14 will land on Switch its honking install size will take up almost half of the console's 256 gigs of memory. Final Fantasy 14 will weigh in at 117.2 gigs when it launches for
[01:21] Switch 2 on August 4th. That's around double the game's install size on PlayStation 5, which benefits from some clever file compression technology, footprint on PC. It's a hefty download, though perhaps to be expected when you
[01:34] of content that has been added over the years. The upside to all this is that the file size includes all of the game's previous five expansions. Heaven Sword, Storm Blood, Shadowbringers, Endalker, and Dawn Trail, so you won't need more
[01:47] space to play any of those. The downside, a sixth expansion, Evercold, likely need even more memory space in January. Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix is no stranger to big Switch 2 file sizes. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, holds
[02:01] the current record for a single game at 92 gigs, as well as the record for a Collection, which includes a trio of titles that weigh in at 131 gigs total. release date for its first major story expansion, but also its huge free 2.0
[02:16] update. Ukraine developer GSC Game World announced that Stalker 2: Cost of Hope is set for PC, Xbox Series, XNS, and PlayStation 5 on August 20th. In Cost of Hope, players once again step into the role of Stalker 2 protagonist, Skiff, as
[02:30] a mysterious PDA signal draws him into events unfolding alongside the main game story. GSC Game World is said to expect dozens of hours of content. The 2.0 update, meanwhile, upgrades the game to a new version of Unreal Engine 5. This
[02:43] brings new content and improvements. After a series of understandable delays, Stalker 2 launched on PC and Xbox in November 2024, as well as on Game Pass. It was released on PlayStation 5 a year later. Stalker 2 was a sales success,
[02:56] hitting 1 million copies in two days. It has so far surpassed 6 million players. [music] 27th. Now that you're caught up on the news, watch our evolution of Hatfield and for all your video game news, stay tuned at IGN.