The ganados aren’t the only thing that’ll fill your space. Check your storage before you pre-order, or you’ll spend launch night deleting, not decapitating.

Here’s a short, useful story—part cautionary tale, part practical guide—about the Resident Evil 4 Remake install size. The Legend of the 67.3 GB Surprise

At 11 PM, the pre-load began. Alex’s PS4 pinged cheerfully: “Resident Evil 4 Remake – 67.3 GB ready to download.” Alex checked his storage: 52 GB free. He sighed and deleted two old FIFA titles (45 GB). Still short by over 15 GB. He deleted Days Gone (another 40 GB). Now he had 97 GB free. The download started.

Alex booted up the game. It asked for an additional 16 GB day-one patch (textures, bug fixes, and Mercenaries mode prep). He now had 81 GB total installed.

The next week, a free update added Separate Ways DLC (another 9 GB). Final install size on his PS4: ~90 GB (plus save data). On his friend’s PS5 with Kraken compression? Only 58 GB total. On PC with HD texture pack? 72 GB .