Cyberpunk 2077 will not occupy 200 GB, reassures CD Projekt Red

Cyberpunk 2077 was shown again yesterday during the GeForce RTX 3000 reveal event. Fans were able to check out an impressive new trailer that featured the Ray Tracing effects chosen by the developers (diffuse lighting, reflections, shadows and ambient occlusion).

Jakub Knapik, Art Director of Lighting and FX at CD Projekt Red, stated:

Cyberpunk 2077 is a technologically advanced game capable of generating wonderful visuals. He also boldly leads the future of real-time graphics, taking advantage of the 2nd generation Ray Tracing of the GeForce RTX 30 Series and the advanced AI of NVIDIA DLSS. Simulated reflections, realistic shadows and diffuse lighting and ambient occlusion - they all make my heart beat faster and I hope everyone shares that feeling when the game comes out in November.

However, when NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the set of RTX IO technologies, he used a slide mentioning the game size problems that now reach 200 GB, and the slide featured a screenshot of Cyberpunk 2077.

This may have led some to believe that this would actually be the HD space needed to install the game. Fortunately, CD Projekt Red community coordinator Marcin Momot was quick to dismiss this speculation earlier this morning with a brief tweet, where he also announced that the PC system requirements for the game will be available soon.

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Although the system requirements for Cyberpunk 2077 have not yet been released (however, they will be available soon!), I wanted to address this reddit topic. The game does not occupy 200 GB when installed. You can expect the required hard disk space to be the same as in other modern titles.

Chances are that the long-awaited first-person open world RPG game will occupy at least 100 GB. Anyway, we should know the official number soon.

Cyberpunk 2077 is scheduled for release on November 19 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.