News Summary

• SSD prices are bad right now.
• Storage drive prices rose alongside memory and other hardware during the AI boom, and they show no sign of coming down anytime soon.
• Some developers are taking stock of their creations and realizing they might not need as much space.
• Helldivers 2 is a prime example.
• The game originally launched with an installation size of roughly 154GB, putting it right up there among the biggest PC games by file size.
• The August 2026 Marvel Rivals Season 9.5 Update delivered a texture compression overhaul that dropped the installation size by 40GB on PC.