Game with the Biggest Size on Each Generation of Gaming Platforms

Video games have survived for 45 years and 8 generations have been created. In each new generation of consoles that come with more sophisticated technology, new revolutions continue to emerge also on the visual aspects, game play mechanics and also in-game technical. At first, the game was so simple and just a collection of variations from Pong. But now has many types of games that come with many innovations and variations that developers create in their game. With the ever-increasing game complex, the data required by the game gets bigger. In each generation, there are always some games that are so big in the data needs, gamers are sometimes surprised to see the size of the game because the size of most other games are not that big.

Let's take a look games with  the greatest data size on each gaming platform from the old to the latest. But we will only start from the second generation that is popular with Atari 2600 because at this time the game began not just Pong machine. Console mentioned is also only famous console  because it will filled a full book to mention all the platforms in this galaxy.

Atari 2600

Biggest game: Fatal Run
Genre: Racing
Size: 32 KB
Average Size of game on the console: 16 KB

Nintendo Entertainment System

The biggest game: Kirby's Adventure
Genre: Platformer
Size: 800 kb
The average game size in the console: 100 KB - 400 KB

Sega Megadrive/Genesis

Biggest game: Street Fighter II
Genre: Fighting
Size: 5 MB
The average game size in the console: 500 KB - 1 MB

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Biggest game: Tales of Phantasia
Genre: RPG
Size: 6 MB
The average game size in the console: 1 MB - 2MB

Nintendo Gameboy Color

Biggest game: Densha de Go
Genre: Simulation
Size: 8 MB
Average game size in the console: 1MB

Nintendo Gameboy Advance

Greatest game: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
Genre: RPG / Adventure
Size: 32 MB
Average game size in the console: 4 MB - 16 MB

Nintendo 64

Biggest game: Resident Evil 2
Genre: Action / Horror
Size: 64 MB
Average game size in the console: 6 MB - 30 MB

Playstation 1 (PSX)

Biggest game: Wing Commander IV
Genre: Action
Size: 2.6 GB
Average game sizes on the console: 300 MB - 1 GB

Playstation 2

Biggest game: Gran Turismo 4
Genre: Racing
Size: 4.1 GB
Average game sizes on the console: 1 GB - 2 GB

Nintendo Gamecube

Biggest game: Super Mario Sunshine
Genre: Platformer
Size: 1.3 GB
Average game size in the console: 1 GB

XBOX

Biggest game: Rally Sport Challenge
Genre: Racing
Size: 6.19 GB
Average game sizes on the console: 1 GB - 2 GB

Nintendo WII

Biggest game: Metroid Prime Trilogy
Genre: FPS
Size: 7.45 GB
The average size of games in the console: 2 - 4 GB

Nintendo DS

Biggest game: Ni No Kuni: Dominion of Dark Djinn
Genre: RPG
Size: 512 MB
Average game sizes on the console: 50 MB - 256 MB

Nintendo 3DS

Greatest game: Resident Evil: Revelations
Genre: Action / Third-Person Shooter
Size: 3.01 GB
The average size of games in the console: 500 MB - 1 GB

Playstation 3

Biggest game: Uncharted 3
Genre: Action / Third-Person Shooter
Size: 42 GB
Average game size in the console: 5 - 15 GB

Xbox 360

Biggest game: RAGE
Genre: Racing
Size: 22 GB
Average game size in the console: 5 -10 GB

Nintendo WiiU

Biggest game: Watch Dogs
Genre: Action
Size: 22 GB
Average game size in the console: 5 -10 GB

PS4 (so far)

Biggest game: Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (with all updates and DLC)
Genre: FPS
Size: 89 GB
Average game sizes on the console: 30 GB - 60 GB

Xbox One (so far)

Biggest game: Gears of War 4
Genre: Third-Person Shooter
Size: 113 GB
Average game sizes on the console: 30GB - 60GB

Nintendo Switch (So far)

Biggest game: NBA 2K18
Genre: Sports
Size: 23 GB
Average game size in the console: 5 -10 GB

PC (So Far)

Biggest game: X-Plane 10 (before generation 8); Gears of War 4 (current)
Genre: Simulation; Third-Person shooter
Size: 80 GB; 113 GB
Average game sizes on the console: 5- 20 GB (before generation 8), 30 - 60 GB (current)