![]() ![]() Growth is clearly still there (and would, of course, be slower when small gains by today’s standards were a relatively large amount of progress back then) as the series goes from 1.4GB to 16GB in eight years, but the recommended size stayed the same year-to-year two different times – first with Modern Warfare to World at War, and again with Modern Warfare 2 to Black Ops.īlack Ops 2 and Black Ops 4 are the only Call of Duty games that were smaller than their predecessors. It’s also interesting to me how much closer together the size of pre-Ghosts Call of Duty games are. While the PS3 had Blu-Ray support, it wasn’t until 2013 that both Sony and Microsoft consoles could use the format for games, allowing devs to fully take advantage of the 50GB capacity of a dual-layer Blu-Ray disc – which Ghosts nearly used all of. Its 40GBs is a whopping four times the size of its predecessor, Black Ops 2, and the key reason for that is likely a change in disc format. One of the most interesting points to me here is the generational jump that occurred in 2013 with Ghosts launching alongside the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Ghosts arrived in 2013 alongside the PS4 and Xbox One, and with them came the switch to Blu-Ray discs. Game sizes in general have consistently grown year-over-year, and the annualized nature of Call of Duty (love it or hate it) provides an extremely good tool for measuring that change. Now then, let’s dig into this a bit! “Games get bigger” isn’t exactly a surprising revelation, I know, but it is amusing to see some of the generational leaps clearly laid out like this. ![]() ![]() So while these numbers may vary to the real world (and especially when compared between different consoles), using the official PC requirements at launch give us a consistent, level playing field for comparison. To that point, games like this can eventually grow far bigger than their listed sizes too, even with wiggle room built-in. Activision has said that the 175GB listing keeps post-launch content in mind and it will be less at today’s release. Here’s every major Call of Duty game’s PC install size in a swanky graph for easy reading:Īn important caveat in all of this is that the storage listed in a game’s PC system requirements is not necessarily the size you’ll actually end up downloading. ![]()
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