Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War File Sizes Revealed For Consoles and PC

Written by Brandon Hofer on November 04, 2020

News: You are going to need quite a bit of hard drive space for the next Call of Duty game, however, you don’t have to install it all at once.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is set to be released next week on current and next-gen consoles. Game file sizes tend to keep going up as 4K slowly becomes the standard and the Call of Duty games are no exception. Activision has revealed the amount of hard drive space that you will need for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.

The file sizes for each platform are below:

Xbox Series X|S - 136GB

Xbox One - 93GB

PlayStation 5 - 133GB

PlayStation 4 - 95GB

PC - 125GB (Full Game utilizing Ultra Graphics), 82GB (Entire Game), 35GB (Multiplayer Suite Only)

The ability to only install certain sections of a game is certainly a nice feature, especially if you are running low on hard drive space. Activision has also stated that console gamers will finally be able to do this as well. While I don’t have the actual numbers, I have to assume it is somewhat similar to the PC breakdown. Seeing as how the Xbox Series X|S and PS5 will require that next-gen games run on the internal drive (as opposed to an external drive) this is great news for gamers.

Regardless of whether you choose to download the full game or a single mode, it is still a pretty big download. To help mitigate that players who pre-order Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will be able to preload this title before it is released. The timetable is a bit different depending on what platform you are going to play on.

Xbox One and PlayStation 4

November 5th at 9 pm Pacific

November 10 at 10 am Pacific

Xbox Series X|S

November 10

PlayStation 5

November 12

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is currently slated to be released on November 13th. The preload dates are staggered due to console release dates. The Xbox Series X|S will be released on November 10th, which is when the preload will begin. The PlayStation 5 is set to be released on November 12th, which is when that preload will begin.

Do you plan on picking up Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War? If so, which platform will you be getting it on? Tell us in the comment section below.