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Title: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date
Post by: Daan on September 07, 2012, 11:00:55 PM

Hopefully you have a large SD card in your unit!

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/31589

Fractured Soul will be 2982 blocks in size when it hits the Nintendo eShop in North America, Nintendo Okie reports.

The game by developer Endgame will release next week and will set you back $11.99. In comparison, New Super Mario Bros. 2 will cost you 2725 of your precious blocks, while Order Up! stands in third place with 2485 blocks.

Title: Re: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date
Post by: Shaymin on September 07, 2012, 11:51:20 PM
Download limits confirmed to be dead. Rest in pieces.
Title: Re: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date
Post by: StrawHousePig on September 08, 2012, 12:31:40 AM
Ok... blocks... um, 6 take away 8 minus 3 plus... aw screw it! WTF is a block?? Give it up already Nintendo! No one, NO ONE buys SD cards in "blocks"! >:(
Title: Re: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 08, 2012, 12:39:39 AM
Quote from: StrawHousePig on September 08, 2012, 12:31:40 AM
Ok... blocks... um, 6 take away 8 minus 3 plus... aw screw it! WTF is a block?? Give it up already Nintendo! No one, NO ONE buys SD cards in "blocks"! >:(

It's about 1 block = 128KB. So 2,982 blocks is about 372.75MB.
Title: Re: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date
Post by: Seacor on September 08, 2012, 01:09:15 AM
The formula is blocks divided by 8

2982 / 8 = 372.75 MB

Title: Re: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 08, 2012, 01:13:47 AM
Quote from: Seacor on September 08, 2012, 01:09:15 AM
The formula is blocks divided by 8

2982 / 8 = 372.75 MB



Which is what I said in the post right above yours, 90 minutes before you. LOL
Title: Re: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date
Post by: StrawHousePig on September 08, 2012, 02:33:35 AM
I'm pretty sure the formula is:

blocks = utterly useless data capacity descriptor
Title: Re: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date
Post by: NWR_insanolord on September 08, 2012, 03:20:35 AM
It's funny that Nintendo still measures game size in Megabits, they just changed what they called them.
Title: Re: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date
Post by: TJ Spyke on September 08, 2012, 03:23:53 AM
The stupid terms like "mebi" and "kibi" may be the official terms, but almost no one in the real world actually uses them. Most consumers and companies use "mega", "kilo", etc.
Title: Re: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date
Post by: NWR_insanolord on September 08, 2012, 04:09:14 AM
Those "stupid" terms exist because megabyte can mean two different things depending on how you use it. In most of the cases those terms are used, accuracy is more important than aesthetics.
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Post by: TJ Spyke on September 08, 2012, 10:01:11 AM
I know I am not alone, those terms have existed for about 14 years and almost no on uses them.
Title: Re: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date
Post by: Chocobo_Rider on September 09, 2012, 03:37:57 AM
They use "blocks" so that people without knowledge of the usual terminology have nothing to get confused over.

In fact, even us users who do understand the terminology don't need to know the technical file sizes.  How many blocks is the game? 2000? How many free blocks do I have? More than that? Good to go.

Plain. Simple.
Title: Re: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date
Post by: StrawHousePig on September 09, 2012, 10:44:52 AM
Baloney. So how many blocks should she ask for at BestBuy when grandma goes to buy an SD card?
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Post by: ShyGuy on September 09, 2012, 11:01:11 AM
First I've heard of Fractured Soul, I need to start paying attention. I did find these interesting videos on Youtube:

Fractured Souls DS:

Fractured Souls 3DS:


I always find it interesting to see Graphical differences between platforms.
Title: Re: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date
Post by: Mop it up on September 09, 2012, 03:25:38 PM
It still beats Nintendo's pages and notes system from the Nintendo 64.