Black Ops Cold War Takes Up A Third Of Your PS5's SSD

From TheGamer: "Black Ops Cold War's file size has now reached the point where it will take up a third of your PS5's SSD if you have all of its elements installed."

[Jin_Sakai]

And that’s why I deleted the game. Something needs to be done about these ridiculous CoD file sizes.

[seanpitt23]

Deleted it! you should of never bought it.. this game was trash on every level..

[Notellin]

It's Jin_Sakai so it makes sense he'd buy trash games.

[1Victor]

@sean
That do you expect it’s a crap on duty game they sale on the name only oh and glitches

[elazz]

Delete it, used to be fine when the whole game was around 100GB for all modes combined at launch but now it's ridiculous. The game is not worth the space. You could have Returnal, Ratchet and Clank, Miles Morales, Judgement, Control, Tony Hawk remake and Astro Playroom installed for about 200GB or so.

[eddieistheillest]

Old news

[spirited]

multiplayer content should be optional/separate install

[Greg2801]

You can do that with modern warfare, I only have warzone and multiplayer installed. Strange that black ops does not support this

[CobraKai]

Really?! My PS4 usually tried to download everything. I gotta check that out as all I need are the campaigns.

[Greg2801]

@Cobrakai Yeah you can actually choose which part of the game you want to keep on your hard-drive. There's a option for it ingame somewhere

[Rebel_Scum]

Modern Warfare didn't have the option on release. I guess they'll get around to it eventually.

[philm87]

You can 100% install just part of the game. Can even just have no zombies and normal multiplayer on there if you want. Have to do this through the system menu on the PS5. Just need to push the options button when you have the game highlighted and it's on the menu.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Why do the newer Call of Duty games have such massive install sizes?

[falconP]

I swear it's some kind of scam, like they think if your disk is full with CoD you won't play other games or something.

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

I haven’t bought a Call of Duty game since Black Ops 3 . Call of Duty won’t be cluttering up the SSDs of either my PlayStation 5 or Series X.

[DJStotty]

That is exactly what it is, mine is still 120GB+ on the Series X, and i have removed 4K assets, and RT data, the size is a joke.

[Teflon02]

It's basically uncompressed files to try keep the loading down I bet. Or could be what FalconP said. That's actually pretty genius if they're doing that one lol

[Outlawzz]

People don't care. It can take 100% of the ssd. They'll still buy it Everytime

[falconP]

Not my ssd.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

Sure does and that's why I deleted it

[Notellin]

Why did you buy it though? Game was terrible.

[StoneyYoshi]

Does that really matter at this point? Let people like what they like.

[SPEAKxTHExTRUTH]

Cause it's my money and I can buy what I like. I enjoyed it but it's taking up to much space

[VersusDMC]

Why does the article single out PS5 when it the same issue with the Series X and an even bigger issue with the series S?

Is it because the series X/S have a 200 dollar solution?

[Teflon02]

Who cares, everyone is aware this is a Activision issue, not a Sony one even if they need to hurry with the SSD expansion stuff.

[Eonjay]

"Journalistic integrity"

The conclusion was to blame Sony as usual.. as if Sony could solve this by opening the M.2 drive bay. Like this is no longer an issue on Xbox. Activision also gets a free pass here.

[CobraKai]

Maybe they need to start partitioning what’s installable and let players choose. For me, almost 95% of the time, all I need is the campaign. I know that doesn’t take up that much space.

[BLAKHOODe]

This is the main reason I don't play COD.

[jznrpg]

Wasn’t going to buy it anyway . I add them to my library when they are free but haven’t played a CoD since early PS4 days and it was just the campaign and I deleted it right after I was done . I doubt much has changed since the last one I played so I really hav no interest at all .

[TheLigX]

That's because Activision bloats their file sizes up. They don't want you to have other options installed when they can be fist F**ing people with microtransactions. Minus COD, my PS5 holds the same number of games as my PS4 did because most companies are using Sony's awesome file compression system.

[ScootaKuH]

Not in mine it doesn't. It takes up precisely 0% of my PS5's SSD

[Popsicle]

I really wish Sony would come up with an expansion storage device that taps into the SSD similarly to the way Microsoft has with the S/X. Day one buy for me if they would do this.

[StoneyYoshi]

That's the goal with their expansion slot once it's ready.

[Tedakin]

Is Sony ever going to put out a memory expansion? I think they haven't because the price is going to be huge. People bashed Xbox for the 220 tag. Sony's will be more due to the tech.

[andy85]

I don't understand how this can happen. It's not even an open world game. I have 7 or 8 new games on my drive and they've only used what this one game does alone. It's ridiculous.

[Saijahn]

Maybe Sony should have an expansion solution by now, we're 9 months into the new consoles and they have nothing to offer? Heck not even a list of third party compatible expansion options?

[anast]

This is more like a punishment for subscribing.

[kayoss]

Games will continue to get larger. Storage will become and issue. This is for both physical and digital.

[VerminSC]

It’s fucking ludicrous. I deleted it because of the damn space it eats up.

[SierraGuy]

It's because of stupid warzone...kill it already.

[Eonjay]

Or let us uninstall it!

[Bathyj]

Not for me it's not.
It's taking up about 3% of my external drive.

[Limitedtimestruggle]

About the only thing that kept me pushing trough this game, was the fresh feeling of the adaptive triggers. What a disappointment. Absolute shit.

[gold_drake]

thats why i deleted it. i mean its ridiculous, what in the hell takes up so much space anyways?

[KillBill]

Lucky PS5 has the option to add another SSD. ;)

[Vlasay]

Of course its annoying, but what other multiplayer FPS am I supposed to play right now? I miss the times we had more than 3-4 FPS per generation.

btw, I love the game, but the size is ridiculous.

[brewin]

I dont think its just the devs. The platform holders knew that ballooning file sizes were here to stay last gen, and they did nothing. These consoles should not have shipped with anything less than 2TB. Now theyll just be able to sell us PRo models in a year or 2 for another $500 with that extra TB of space. Mark my words.

[dogmanx23]

Sony needs to add that m2 SSD support already...

[Eonjay]

No, Activision has to stop forcing us to install shit we don't want just so we can play multiplayer.
Its Warzone. The is no way in hell the game should be this large to begin with. No one wants this game to take up 200 GB no matter where you are storing it.