Black Ops Cold War file size is over 130GB on PS5 and Xbox Series X

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will gobble up a whopping 130GB of storage space on your PS5 or Xbox Series X, Activision has revealed.

To be precise, Black Ops Cold War requires at least 133GB of space on PS5 and 136GB on Xbox Series X. Depending on how much usable storage space each console comes with at launch - a report indicates the PS5 could ship with just 667GB of space - Black Ops Cold War could demand as much as one fifth of your console's real-estate. Thankfully, PS5 storage can be expanded with external hard drives or third-party M2 SSDs, just as there will be Xbox Series X storage expansion cards. Better yet, Xbox Series X will let you uninstall certain parts of games to free up storage space.

Jordan Gerblick

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