It is common knowledge that Activision’s latest Call of Duty games take up a lot of storage space, but it looks like they can be stretched beyond the capacity of a basic PS4 as they receive more updates. It may be that, without compression, external storage becomes the only way to have the complete Call of Duty package on a console for some players.The blog notes that players can click on R3 in the main menu of Black Ops Cold War to uninstall “content that you may not have played in a while,” say Campaign or Zombies, for example. The same can be done in Modern Warfare or Warzone by going to the ‘General’ tab in the options menu and clicking on the ‘Game installations’ option. Of course, you don’t need to download the Warzone Season 2 update if you plan on just playing Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War.
This news arrives before the launch of the 2nd season, which brings with it a new Zombies mode called Outbreak, new operators, weapons and maps. The zombies also seem to be heading for the war zone, to believe in recent leaks.
In October 2020, Epic Games pushed a similarly sized Fortnite patch to reduce its storage space by 60 GB. At this point, hopefully, Activision is looking at similar measures, as this will certainly not be the final update of Call of Duty.
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