The Call of Duty franchise has a reputation at this point for demanding large slices of your PS5 storage space, and next month's Modern Warfare 3 looks set to be no different. According to Twitter account PlayStation Game Size — which scrubs Sony servers for file sizes — you'll need to set aside 140GB of SSD space to download the campaign if you don't already have the Call of Duty HQ app installed on PS5.
This is an application that acts as a sort of home screen for past Call of Duty instalments and works as a launcher for titles like Vanguard and Modern Warfare 2. This 89GB app is required to play Modern Warfare 3, and then the campaign comes as two separate downloads weighing in at 18.042GB and then 32.942GB in the USA. If you're based in Europe, you'll need 2GB more of space on top. When all is said and done, you'll be looking at around 140GB of data just to play the Modern Warfare 3 campaign, and that's before a multiplayer install.
As demonstrated by PS5, PS4 game Modern Warfare 2 last year, the file size can increase even more once the online portion is bolted on. As the campaign is playable one week before the official 10th November 2023 launch date via a pre-order, the same is expected to happen to Modern Warfare 3. 2022's entry took a 40GB update just before release to prime it for the multiplayer to go live, so if the same happens this year, Modern Warfare 3 may already be close to 200GB once it's officially out. It at least took 2019's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare six months of service to even come close to that file size.
Of course, history has proven that file sizes can be smaller than what downloads state in the PS5 menu, so there's a chance you might not need to sacrifice quite as much SSD space as the Twitter account states. We'll be able to bring you official confirmation once the Modern Warfare 3 campaign releases on PS5, PS4 at the end of this week.
[source twitter.com]
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Not on mine it wont.
Hmmm? I am going to skip Cod this year as i was told a lie when MWII was released: It will be a 2yr game! Hahaha.
@Weebleman same here. I'm pretty much worn out with call of duty at the mo.
Yeah, no thanks.
No, it wont. I’ll wait for it to be on GamePass.
What at aaaaalllll is in there...
Wow, these file sizes have just ballooned this gen. Started with these promises of smaller downloads due to the SSD and now most new AAA games are all 80 GB + and slowly creeping higher!
Nah that’s ridiculous.
Yeah think im done too at this point. As someone that used to love playing the campaigns, MW2 was very underwhelming and I dont see this one being helped by a 1 year dev cycle
I've played 'em all since 2003, but I think I've reached the end. The fun isn't there anymore. It's all become so incredibly complicated in all respects... It's just sad.
Bruh for the love of Jesus all some people want is the campaign not 100 gigabytes of bloated multiplayer
That's insane. And even more will be added with the battle passes. Maybe they should go in learning at Nintendo on how to compress games.
Skipping in this
So basically we can’t just down load the single play campaign at a lot less gb?
I normally like to buy the new CoD every year, but this one just feels like glorified DLC, so I’ll be giving it a miss or at least wait for it to be on sale.
@Th3solution SSD's doesn't make things smaller. The PS5 has compression tech that makes games smaller, its why a lot of games are smaller on PS5 then Series X. The idea of the tech turning a 100gb game into a 50gb game though was just a stupid fantasy that people assumed would happen.
I wonder how much is due to high resolution stuff.
I wish I could opt out of a high res pack.
Or let me install it to my external HDD and play it from there.
@ColdHandGee I'm very glad I'm not the only one remembering this!
0gb taken up on the ps5 and 0gb taken up on the series S, and it will still be 0 when it hits GP!
Oh dang. That means 280gb for me since I like to have two copies of all my Call of Duty games on my Playstation at all times.
@Drago201 totally agree, that's all I want out of any game.
@Th3solution but if you look at a cross gen game the ps5 file size is always smaller.Makes you wonder how big these file sizes would be without the kraken compression tech
Pre ordered... if I play as much as I did on mw2 then I will get my moneys worth
As far as I’m concerned, COD is dead to me. They will sorely miss my $20 every other year! 😅
For all the money this franchise makes, they still have the laziest (or just not so talented) developers. There is definitely a way to make these files sizes smaller and separate parts of the game install based on what people actually want to play considering available technology and their no doubt fat budget.
@DennisReynolds Oh, thanks for the clarification. I’m not a tech guy and certainly don’t know about the programming side of things. I was led to believe that the fast speeds of the SSD made having duplicate assets unnecessary since single files could be accessed just as quickly as making redundancy in the code, thereby allowing some of those files to be omitted. Or something like that. As far as turning a larger game into a smaller one, it was true of many cross gen games though — the PS4 version was larger than their PS5 counterpart. Many of the early cross gen games were this way (granted not a 50% reduction. More like a 10-20% reduction, if I recall correctly), but this may have been due to the compression tech rather than saving on unnecessary assets.
@ROTTIEMAN16 Yeah, I guess we would have a good idea by looking at the Series X version of the equivalent game since it doesn’t have the compression tech? I’ve not looked at a comparison but it would be interesting to see
@TJ81 The developers don't choose the development priorities like optimizing file size, the publishers does. Every time you think a worker is causing a problem, there is always a ***** greedy executive creating the circumstances under which that worker is struggling to do good work. Stop blaming workers who have no control.
@Weebleman Same here.
@Nacheis The way it has been glossed over and have to pay £70 again for glorified DLC is obscene. I for one will not be part of the great Actibiz 2023 swindle.
No way i get baited into this one
@Th3solution series x has bcpack which while 'apparently' not as good as kraken it shrinks down the games massively compared to ps4 and xbox one
Said it before and I'll say it again.
The sooner that 10 year CoD on PlayStation deal expires, the better!
Not getting into any competitive mp shooters until XDefiant releases. If the kiddo wants MW3 though he is more than welcome to it
Lets hope Microsoft can help activision optimize thier files because this is absolutely absurd. Horizon Forbidden West with the Burning Shores DLC is 130GB. How the hell is a 6 hour linear COD campaign more XD even with the launcher
As someone who just wants to play the single player, Call of Duty HQ is a horrible space waster.
@Dusk_Actual I feel the same. Xdefiant may have a horrible name but it looks good. I would recommend checking out The Finals too. It's made by a bunch of ex-Dice devs who left and took the greatness of Battlefield with them. There's an open beta right now on PS5, running until Nov 8th I think. Pretty fun so far
W.t.f.
Honestly was highly considering buying this game because I’ve basically skipped every single one since the first Modern Warfare with the cool sniper ghili suits Russia level. Been wanting to get back in because these games remind me of the holidays and I was feeling nostalgic. But now knowing I have to download an 89GB launcher? Why do I need to download a bloated launcher to launch something that has historically been able to launch itself from my system’s Home Screen icon? This is absurd.
I just finally bit the bullet and got a 2TB SSD and I’m not about to waste space on this crap.
140GB of shooting the same generic human soldier over and over again in multiplayer and its campaign. The single player campaigns usually last for about 7 maybe 10 hours if you lucky
@DennisReynolds technically they can make install sizes smaller as you dont need to repeat assets so the hdd can access them quicker. For example, a tree. You only need to store one version of that tree on the ssd and it can be pulled when needed in the game. Where as a hdd will need multiple instances of that tree to ensure its always at hand when needed.
But yeah, no way we would be seeing half sizes as over gens, that tree takes up more space as the quality goes up.
@RBRTMNZ fair comment and a highly likely scenario at a publisher like Activision.
@Drago201 You don't even need to include the multi-player on the disc it's gonna be patched anyway on day one.
@Weebleman It's still baffling that massive singleplayer games don't need these kinds of install sizes. Im certain with Microsoft in charge now we donr need to wait for better optimization with Kraken.
@Flaming_Kaiser I know cod games update so frequently within the 1st few months it's crazy 🤪
@Flaming_Kaiser i imagine one of the fallbouts of the ABK deal will be the xbox consoles will become the lead machine for future games. Which i imagine will make less use of the kraken compression than they do now.
Fair enough 🤷 nothing particularly Suprising so 140 isn't anything shocking 😅
You can opt to just install the campaign and leave multiplayer & Warzone off. I never install Warzone...although I don't know why you wouldnt install the MP element. CoD multiplayer is peerless at what it does, regardless of any false hate it gets
@KingPev ...doh ! Replying to my own stupid comment here 🤣🤣 ignore my previous, I didn't read the article properly. Man, that's a big install for just the campaign
@Drago201 These games should be released digitally first and after they are patched then it should go physical otherwise it's a total waste of plastic. 🤣
@Weebleman Yeah that is going to bad. 😆
I for one will not be picking another COD unless I get it used and on the dirt cheap. To me CoD lost all its fun by splitting up game lobbys and man some of the best games times and friends meet came in this eara of COD. I missed that so much.
@Flaming_Kaiser exactly hell the 1st modern warfare in the reboot updated itself so much that it actually reintroduced the original bug after like 20 updates where the game would crash in-between every chapter
@Flaming_Kaiser let’s be honest here, with how MW2 had like 100mb on disc, they are far from caring about wasting plastic. Wasting plastic is what they do best
As with all previous and future CoD games, this one will also take up exactly 0 bytes of my storage capacity. 😝
@thaidanh Seriously? Wow i feel great skipping that one then.
@Drago201 We truly live in a sad state of gaming now....
Haha watching people beat the campaign in sub 3 hours make it seem like it’s a DLC
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