The Call of Duty franchise has become rather notorious in recent years for gobbling up unreasonable amounts of storage, which is particularly frustrating on current-gen consoles with limited SSD space. So yeah, most people were expecting Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 to be a big game, and yet, many were still shocked when the game’s pre-order pages indicated the game will require a 310 GB install.
Say whaaaat? Thankfully, the Call of Duty X account has since popped up to reassure players that the Black Ops 6 install won’t be that unreasonable. That 310 GB is for somebody who installs Call of Duty HQ, which is the launcher required for all recent CoD titles, along with CoD Modern Warfare II, Modern Warfare III, Warzone, and all DLC for those games. While you can’t get away from installing Call of Duty HQ, obviously you don’t need to install Warzone or any of the other games to play Black Ops 6.
“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 and all relevant content packs, including all localized languages combined which is not representative of a typical player install experience.
Players will be able to download Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 at launch without downloading any other Call of Duty titles or all of the language packs . The actual estimation of the Black Ops 6 file size will be available closer to launch.”
As for how big Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will actually be, that remains to be seen, but Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and III “only” require about 150 GB apiece to play if you strip them right down and don’t install Warzone, DLC, other games, ect. Interestingly, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will also be utilizing cloud-based texture streaming, which means the game is always online, but perhaps that might also keep the game’s file size somewhat in check.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 launches on PC (via Steam, Battle.net, and Microsoft Store), Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, and PS5 on October 25. You can get more details on the game here.
