{"id":2241695,"date":"2026-11-06T12:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2241695"},"modified":"2026-11-06T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:28:10","slug":"square-enix-accidentally-botches-a-nier-automata-update-balloons-required-file-size-from-50gb-to-366gb-on-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2241695","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix accidentally botches a Nier: Automata update, balloons required file size from 50GB to 366GB on PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n              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<span class=\"logo\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><br \/>\nPrioritise us on Google  <\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\" data-autopogo>\n<p>Yesterday, Nier: Automata received a new patch on Steam, adding more language support to the title &#8211; it can now be played with Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese options &#8211; but this new update also, somehow, inflated the file size of the game on PC from about 50GB to 366GB. D&#8217;oh! What&#8217;s worse is, the update is not optional.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"\u300eNieR:Automata\uff0f\u30cb\u30fc\u30a2\u30aa\u30fc\u30c8\u30de\u30bf\u300f1,000\u4e07\u672c\u7a81\u7834\u8a18\u5ff5PV\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wyn1b_5bw-M?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Wyn1b_5bw-M\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">\u300eNieR:Automata\uff0f\u30cb\u30fc\u30a2\u30aa\u30fc\u30c8\u30de\u30bf\u300f1,000\u4e07\u672c\u7a81\u7834\u8a18\u5ff5PV<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wyn1b_5bw-M\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The cause of this, reportedly, is a bug that caused all the DLC in the YoRHa Edition of the game to become the same size as the base game &#8211; and the new download stacks them all concurrently. &#8220;Only SquareEnix can turn 40GB into 366GB with 8GB patch,&#8221; says one dissatisfied Steam reviewer.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have space for this massive new file on your PC (and I can&#8217;t say I blame you, it&#8217;s ridiculous), there is a workaround, as confirmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/square-enix\">Square Enix<\/a> in a tweet via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NieR_JPN\/status\/2118520550851281206?a=SZ7cimouB0u73ulqqWM\">its Japanese Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have confirmed an issue where, following the latest update to the Steam version of Nier: Automata, the installation process indicates that more storage space is required than expected,&#8221; noted the publisher. &#8220;We are currently investigating the cause and working on a solution. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. As a temporary workaround, you can download the base game by unchecking the DLC under Steam \u2192 Properties \u2192 DLC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite ironic, really, that so many Steam reviewers are complaining about things like &#8220;I just need to delete 90% of my computer to install this&#8221; when a large part of the game is managing the software\/programmes installed on your android protagonists in order to upgrade your abilities and stats. There&#8217;s even an ending for uninstalling your OS on your mechanical main characters. I&#8217;d be inclined to suggest this is some sort of meta psy-op from creator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/personas\/yoko-taro\">Yoko Taro<\/a>, but\u2026 nah, that&#8217;s just fantasy, isn&#8217;t it? Isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Taro, earlier this year we learned that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nier-automata-future-developments-teased-as-it-passes-10m-worldwide-sales\">Nier Automata will continue<\/a>&#8220;, though we only heard back in 2025 tha<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/nier-automata-creator-yoko-taro-says-hes-actually-been-working-on-a-lot-of-projects-recently-its-just-that-they-got-cancelled-midway\/\">t most of the projects the developer was working on were cancelled<\/a>. One of these may have been the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/tencent\">Tencent<\/a>-backed Nier mobile game in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/tencent-cancels-unannounced-nier-mobile-game\">which reportedly &#8220;struggled to find a monetisation to offset its high costs<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\" data-autopogo>\n<p>Yesterday, Nier: Automata received a new patch on Steam, adding more language support to the title &#8211; it can now be played with Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese options &#8211; but this new update also, somehow, inflated the file size of the game on PC from about 50GB to 366GB. D&#8217;oh! What&#8217;s worse is, the update is not optional.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"\u300eNieR:Automata\uff0f\u30cb\u30fc\u30a2\u30aa\u30fc\u30c8\u30de\u30bf\u300f1,000\u4e07\u672c\u7a81\u7834\u8a18\u5ff5PV\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wyn1b_5bw-M?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Wyn1b_5bw-M\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">\u300eNieR:Automata\uff0f\u30cb\u30fc\u30a2\u30aa\u30fc\u30c8\u30de\u30bf\u300f1,000\u4e07\u672c\u7a81\u7834\u8a18\u5ff5PV<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wyn1b_5bw-M\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The cause of this, reportedly, is a bug that caused all the DLC in the YoRHa Edition of the game to become the same size as the base game &#8211; and the new download stacks them all concurrently. &#8220;Only SquareEnix can turn 40GB into 366GB with 8GB patch,&#8221; says one dissatisfied Steam reviewer.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have space for this massive new file on your PC (and I can&#8217;t say I blame you, it&#8217;s ridiculous), there is a workaround, as confirmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/square-enix\">Square Enix<\/a> in a tweet via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NieR_JPN\/status\/2118520550851281206?a=SZ7cimouB0u73ulqqWM\">its Japanese Twitter account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have confirmed an issue where, following the latest update to the Steam version of Nier: Automata, the installation process indicates that more storage space is required than expected,&#8221; noted the publisher. &#8220;We are currently investigating the cause and working on a solution. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. As a temporary workaround, you can download the base game by unchecking the DLC under Steam \u2192 Properties \u2192 DLC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite ironic, really, that so many Steam reviewers are complaining about things like &#8220;I just need to delete 90% of my computer to install this&#8221; when a large part of the game is managing the software\/programmes installed on your android protagonists in order to upgrade your abilities and stats. There&#8217;s even an ending for uninstalling your OS on your mechanical main characters. I&#8217;d be inclined to suggest this is some sort of meta psy-op from creator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/personas\/yoko-taro\">Yoko Taro<\/a>, but\u2026 nah, that&#8217;s just fantasy, isn&#8217;t it? Isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Taro, earlier this year we learned that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/nier-automata-future-developments-teased-as-it-passes-10m-worldwide-sales\">Nier Automata will continue<\/a>&#8220;, though we only heard back in 2025 tha<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/nier-automata-creator-yoko-taro-says-hes-actually-been-working-on-a-lot-of-projects-recently-its-just-that-they-got-cancelled-midway\/\">t most of the projects the developer was working on were cancelled<\/a>. One of these may have been the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/companies\/tencent\">Tencent<\/a>-backed Nier mobile game in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/tencent-cancels-unannounced-nier-mobile-game\">which reportedly &#8220;struggled to find a monetisation to offset its high costs<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News NieR: Automata Square Enix accidentally botches a Nier: Automata update, balloons required file size from 50GB to 366GB on PC &#8220;Do you think games are silly little things?&#8221; Image credit: Eurogamer News by Dom Peppiatt Deputy Editorial Director Published on Nov. 6, 2026, 12:28 p.m. 8 comments Follow NieR: Automata Prioritise us on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,253],"class_list":["post-2241695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-eurogamer-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2241695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}