Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 File Size Controversy Explained
The news about Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 potentially clocking in at over 300 GB spread quickly after the game’s exciting reveal yesterday, and the discussion spread even faster.
The Xbox Store entry for BO6 stated that the game’s “approximate size” was 309.85 GB, which is obviously extremely large. And the conversation grew from there, with people commenting on social media about how stupid that would be.
Activision responds to file size concerns
The discussion became so heated in only one day that Activision had to use its @CODUpdates account to emphasize that the “approximate size” listing was just that, an approximation, as we highlighted earlier today.
Correction: The estimated file size currently displayed on the Black Ops 6 pre-order pages does not represent the download size or disk footprint for Black Ops 6.
The sizes as shown include the full installations of Modern Warfare II, Modern Warfare III, Warzone…
— Call of Duty Updates (@CODUpdates) June 10, 2024
Game installation and file sizes
It makes sense, because new CoD games now become available through the Call of Duty HQ application, with new titles and modes added as “add-on content” to the existing game. BO6 will remain the same, with game components that can be installed and removed with equal ease.
For example, once a player has completed the campaign, it can be uninstalled. This is likely to be the largest file size of them all. The same applies to Zombies mode and Warzone. Although the current file size for MW3 and Warzone on PS5 is over 200 GB, the game may not be as enormous as initially expected.
BO6 will be available later this year, on October 25.