The new consoles will have exponentially increased their loading speed thanks to the new SSD units , but something they have not done is increase the disk space, since it is still the same (or less if we take into account what the system files consume) than that of current consoles. Are we going to be short of space with the games that arrive?
The Call of Duty problem
If there is a game that has been giving headaches to those poor users who stuck with the console models with 500 GB of memory, it is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare . Activision’s game began to grow enormously since it launched its battle royale modality, Warzone. Since then, many have had disk space problems, and have had to uninstall parts of Call of Duty in order to make room for updates and other games.
With that in mind, how do you think Cold War will behave on the new consoles? Well, that’s exactly what Activision wanted to solve with its latest press release, as the company has announced the details related to the console versions, with a view to the availability of the game’s pre-download period.
How big is Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War?
If Cold War is going to be one of the first games that you will install on your brand new PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S, it will be important that you are aware of how much space you will need on the SSD, since if you intend to install more games and the odd backward compatible, you’d better be doing numbers.
According to official information, Cold War will have two different sizes depending on the generation of console in which we install it. The complete installation remains as follows:
- PS4: 95GB
- PS5: 133GB
- Xbox One : 93GB
- Xbox Series X and Series S : 136GB
This would mean that the game would occupy more space on the new consoles than the PC version with ultra quality graphics.
Not everything is lost
In any case, we must remember that as in Modern Warfare , the game will allow you to select which packages you need to install on your console, so that, if you have completed the single player mode and do not want to play it again, you will be able to uninstall the Call of Duty campaign to save a lot of gigs. Thus, more or less, you will be able to manage the disk space that the game occupies, being able to free up space for other games that you also want to have installed.
The disk space of PS5 and Xbox Series X and S
The concern about what Call of Duty and future next-gen games will occupy is no fluke. The new consoles will reduce the disk size that is initially offered due to the need to store system files, so the final space that we will have as soon as we turn on the console for the first time will be less than you could expect. Match that the official capacity of the consoles is 1TB (Xbox Series X), 825GB (PS5) and 500GB (Xbox Series S), the actual free space is as follows:
- PS5: 664GB
- Xbox Series X : 802GB
- Xbox Series S : 386GB
Now you just have to subtract the 136GB from Call of Duty and make your own accounts.