"Forza Horizon 6" is now open for pre-loading, but the game capacity is very large, and you may need to free up some hard drive space for this game. According to the official blog, Forza Horizon 6 requires 135GB for the Xbox Series X version, 130GB for the Xbox Series S version, and a staggering 160GB on PC, and requires an SSD.
A player posted on Reddit to confirm this number. This player showed the exact file size through the Xbox mobile app:
144.84 GB for Xbox Series X|S
156.65 GB for PC
In addition, the official Forza blog also pointed out that the game must use a solid-state drive (SSD), which means that if the game is run from a mechanical hard drive, there may be performance degradation.
And this is what caused controversy among players...
With the game capacity of "Forza Horizon 6" reaching such a terrifying level, a player in the comment area said, "I think hard drives below 2TB are obsolete when assembling a computer now." In response to this, other players replied that they have a 2TB NVMe SSD, which is barely enough, and they really regret not buying a few more before the price increased...
Some players even replied that they have an 8TB hard drive, but they still feel it is not enough. In the current market environment, it is too expensive for ordinary players to buy 8TB or even 4TB solid-state drives to play games, so they have to choose mechanical hard drives.
What's more, the game file size will continue to increase with updates and game progress.
The size of "Forza Horizon 5" was 103GB when it was released, and it has now reached about 150GB. Not just Forza, but other games as well. "Red Desert" has a capacity of 120-130GB, "WWE 2K26" may occupy up to 150GB of space, and no one knows how much space "GTA6" will occupy when it is finally released.
A 1TB SSD ($150-$250) could fill up quickly with just two or three games.
Some players are also worried about their Internet speed: it may take four or five days to download continuously
