Why are the game saves so small?

[bs13]

My first game save with only 2 cars is 87.4KB

My 3rd game save with 21 cars is 88.1KB

My 6th game save with 92 cars is 98.4KB

I just read about someone who has nearly 500 cars and the save is 152KB

Does those numbers sound correct? They seem smaller than GT5's saves. I haven't installed/built the car thumbnail database yet. Is that data store in the game save or game data save?

I also don't have cars in the stockyard. Do they also get saved to your game save data?

 

[bodger]

It probably only stores a GUID or something for each car you own and a limited set of tuning and components list. I can easily see it being that small. No need to store anything more.

 

[zutz]

In Gran Turismo 6, replay data, ghost data, photo data etc. are stored in your game data, not in your save data. If you do not have enough space on your Hard Disk Drive (HDD), you may not be able to record, save, or access this data.

 

[bs13]

Thanks for the replies. I guess storing less data is the reason although I don't remember my GT5 save having any replays or photos. It was at almost 4MB for about 1200 cars but I had tons of parts on the cars.

 

[Catlin]

and GT5 used to sometimes go mad if the file size was over a certain amount.