If you’re thinking about buying BioShock for your PlayStation 3 when it comes out next month, you may want to check your hard drive and make sure there’s plenty of space. Word is that before you can beat a single Rapture resident with your trusty wrench, you’re going to have to endure a 5GB mandatory install.

Apparently, the install takes about ten minutes to complete and comes in at exactly 4,980MB. Also, as we mentioned above, the install in mandatory, so the first time you boot the game up you might as well plan to have some other 10-minute activity on tap, like a trip to YouTube to enjoy a montage of great BioShock moments you’re about to experience... if the install ever finishes.

With this, BioShock becomes yet another game taking up a big chunk of real estate on the PS3 hard drive, slowly eating away at what once seemed like a rather large amount of storage space. Is anyone out there running out of space yet? My system seems to be humming along just fine so far, but a few more titles like BioShock and I’m going to have to start deleting data. I suppose I could just go buy a bigger hard drive, but after spending so much on the system in the first place, you’ll forgive me if I’m suddenly a bit more thrifty these days.