Topic: Fractured Soul To Be Biggest eShop Title To Date

[Daan]

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.

[Shaymin]

Download limits confirmed to be dead. Rest in pieces.

[StrawHousePig]

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"!

[TJ Spyke]

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.

[Seacor]

The formula is blocks divided by 8

2982 / 8 = 372.75 MB

[TJ Spyke]

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

[StrawHousePig]

I'm pretty sure the formula is:

blocks = utterly useless data capacity descriptor

[NWR_insanolord]

It's funny that Nintendo still measures game size in Megabits, they just changed what they called them.

[TJ Spyke]

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.

[NWR_insanolord]

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.

[TJ Spyke]

I know I am not alone, those terms have existed for about 14 years and almost no on uses them.

[Chocobo_Rider]

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.

[StrawHousePig]

Baloney. So how many blocks should she ask for at BestBuy when grandma goes to buy an SD card?

[ShyGuy]

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.

[Mop it up]

It still beats Nintendo's pages and notes system from the Nintendo 64.