Guardians of the Galaxy system requirements demand 150GB of disk space (Update: now it's 80GB)

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Update: Eidos Montreal now says that Guardians of the Galaxy will be 80GB and not 150GB.

Original story: System requirements for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy have appeared on its Steam page, and some of the specs aren't that high for a game that's going to launch with a bunch of PC-specific graphical improvements. The minimum GPU requirement calls for a GTX 1060 or a Radeon RX 570, while the recommended GPU is a GTX 1660 Super or an RX 590. On the other hand, you'll need to have 150GB free to install what is probably not a hugely long singleplayer game.

To put that in perspective, it's just ahead of Hitman 2 with all the DLC, which is basically the entire first game as well and comes in at 149GB. Looking at some of the other biggest install sizes on PC, it's still well behind the combined Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone at 231GB, but ahead of Microsoft Flight Simulator, which includes the entire planet Earth and yet is still only 127GB.

Guardians of the Galaxy minimum system requirements

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows® 10 64 bit Build 1803
Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 5 1400 / Intel® Core™ i5-4460
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon™ RX 570
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 150 GB available space

Guardians of the Galaxy recommended system requirements

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows® 10 64 bit Build 1803
Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 5 1600 / Intel® Core™ i7-4790
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 Super / AMD Radeon™ RX 590
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 150 GB available space

Guardians of the Galaxy will be out on October 26.

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