The official Call of Duty blog detailed their plans for the big Season Two update for both Black Ops Cold War as well as Warzone. That information was seemingly greatly overshadowed by the news surrounding some of the file sizes. If you’re one of the many players using a PlayStation 4, then you may soon be in a bind once your entire hard drive suddenly turns into a box for playing Call of Duty.
If you decide to have all of the content available installed all once on a PS4, it would top out around 500 GB. If you’re on a base model, that means that’s all of your valuable space. It’s even more space if we’re being technical since a good chunk of hard drive space is allotted to the console’s operating system. You could still play with your data management a bit to pick and choose which elements you actually want to keep. You’re not obligated to have everything installed which might be the only reasonable course of action if you’re on a base model PS4.
Those who own a standard PlayStation 4 with a default hard drive of 500 GB may need to make room if they have the full versions of Modern Warfare/Warzone and Black Ops Cold War with all modes and packs installed.
You would think that there would some safeguards or better regulations against this kind of poor optimization. It does come off a bit anti-consumer to almost force Call of Duty players to either dedicate most of the hard drives to a single game or upgrade to a newer console just to play it. Hopefully, it’s something that can be remedied down the line. As of right now, PS4 players will have some choices to make when decided what to have installed if they intend to play Black Ops Cold War or Warzone.
You can find a whole roundup for what is on the way for Season Two of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone as well as detailed breakdowns for file sizes on all other platforms on the Call of Duty blog.
