Nier: Automata Dev Working on Fix for Patch That Accidentally Bloated the Game Size to 366GB on PC

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1. Gamesradar Center Factuality: Mostly factual US 4 hours ago
   Nier account says sorry for making Nier Automata 600% bigger on Steam, try not installing the DLC

   It looks like players were right about the action RPG's storage issue

2. GameSpot Center Factuality: Mostly factual US 5 hours ago
   Nier Automata’s File Size Now Reflects How Good It Is

   Nier Automata is my favorite game of all time, and I've been telling everyone I know to play it for nearly a decade. On PC, however, Square Enix accidentally made that a little bit more difficult, because the game's latest patch ballooned the game's file size by more than...

3. Eurogamer No political lean US 7 hours ago
   Square Enix accidentally botches a Nier: Automata update, balloons required file size from 50GB to 366GB on PC

   Yesterday, Nier: Automata received a new patch on Steam, adding more language support to the title - it can now be played with Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese options - but this new update also, somehow, inflated the file size of the game on PC from about...

4. IGN Center Factuality: Mostly factual US 8 hours ago
   Nier: Automata Dev Working on Fix for Patch That Accidentally Bloated the Game Size to 366GB on PC

   Nier: Automata got a patch yesterday to add support for more languages to the game (Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese), but it accidentally bloated the game file size to 366GB on PC. That’s 1.5 copies of GTA 6!