Call of Duty has garnered itself a reputation for requiring a ridiculous amount of storage space, and the next entry in the series, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, is set to continue that trend.
As Polygon reports, developer Treyarch and publisher Activision have released the PC system requirements for playing the game, which is set to release on Nov. 13. If you want to take full advantage of an RTX graphics card and Ultra settings, you’re going to need an Intel Core i9-9900K or AMD Ryzen 3700K, 16GB of RAM, and 250GB of storage space.
The good news is, if you’re only intending to play mulitplayer, then 50GB of storage space will suffice. However, even at minimum settings Cold War demands 175GB of space before you can access all game modes. This should come as no surprise to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone players, but it’s still a huge amount of storage to set aside for just one game.
Cold War is also set to launch on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on the same day, so it will be interesting to see what the storage requirements are on each platform. For 4K gaming on the next-gen consoles, they could even match the PC requirements.
