Some new activity suggests that Call of Duty may be fixing one of its most controversial issues. The Call of Duty franchise continues to pump out robust packages every year. While the quality of each game is debated among fans annually, the value isn’t. You get a campaign, multiplayer, and typically a co-op offering every single year and it usually gives you a huge bang for your buck. However, things have gotten a bit out of hand as well. The scope of Call of Duty is so big that it fills storage drives. If you’re on something like an Xbox Series S which has as low as 500GBs of storage on some models, about a quarter of the console’s storage can go to one Call of Duty game.
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Many have grown frustrated that Call of Duty fills well over 100GBs of storage these days. While it was much worse at one point, it’s still not as small as fans would like. Part of this is due to the Call of Duty HQ, an app that comprises multiple Call of Duty games and can really bloat the file size. Recently, Modern Warfare II and Modern Warfare III were removed from HQ to be standalone games, partially to make room for Black Ops 7 within the COD HQ app and to remove unnecessary bloat from those two older titles.
Call of Duty’s File Size Will Reportedly Shrink by 100 GBs Soon
With that said, it appears the massive file size for Call of Duty may be changing very soon. According to PlayStation Game Size, a Twitter account that scrapes the back end of PlayStation’s servers for updates and more, Call of Duty will reportedly massively downsize its app soon. The Call of Duty app will be reduced from 126GBs to 25 GBS on PS5 in an upcoming update. Of course, this could be some kind of error or misreporting, but the account doubled down on this in the replies. However, until we all see it for ourselves, take it with a grain of salt.
If this ends up being the case, this would be a massive win for the series. Call of Duty has been addressing fan feedback recently by walking back major changes such as the carry forward system in Black Ops 7. Players were supposed to be able to bring their Black Ops 6 skins and weapons into the new game, but Activision quickly reverted this feature following feedback. Part of this is to avoid skins that are too goofy in Black Ops 7, which may indicate big changes for the future of the series.
Fans have speculated that Call of Duty is feeling pressure from Battlefield 6 and is doing its best to make Call of Duty more appealing by addressing criticisms that have been impacting the franchise for years. Whether this will make a difference or be sustained remains to be seen, but it is an interesting series of developments.
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