THE latest Call of Duty game will take up a gargantuan amount of hard drive space when it launches on next-gen consoles next week.
The bulky Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War file is a mammoth 130GB, US publisher Activision says, making it one of the largest games ever released.
On top of that, the game’s size will almost certainly grow in the months following its November 13 release as updates and expansions are added.
Activision detailed the file sized of various versions of Black Ops Cold War in a blog post on Wednesday.
While the PlayStation 5 version comes in at 133GB, the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S one takes up 136GB of space.
That means the game takes up roughly 15 per cent of the PS5’s 825 GB of hard drive space, or 13 per cent of the Series X’s 1TB (1,000GB) of memory.
Players on the Xbox Series S, a second upcoming Microsoft console, will have to sacrifice a whopping 25 per cent of their 512GB of storage.
All three consoles launch next week, a few days before Black Ops Cold War comes out.
On PS4 and Xbox One, the game is a fair bit smaller, taking up 95GB and 93GB respectively, Activision said.
The Santa Monica company added that console gamers will have the option to uninstall certain parts of the game to free up space on their hard drives.
“Players can choose to uninstall specific game mode packs, such as for Campaign or Zombies, in order to reduce the game’s file size,” they said.
Call of Duty has become notorious for its large file sizes ever since the release of last year’s Modern Warfare.
It was made worse with the release of Activision’s standalone battle royale add-on, Warzone, which launched in March.
Gamers now regularly have to wrangle with files sizes in the hundreds of gigabytes just to get the game on their console or PC.
Until the new CoD hits shelves, all eyes are on Sony Microsoft for the release of their new consoles next week.
Microsoft’s new Xbox Series X and its smaller, cheaper sibling, the Series S, will launch on November 10.
The release date covers the UK, US, Australia and a bunch of other countries worldwide.
The disc-free Series S will cost £249/$299, while the Xbox Series X comes in at £449/$499.