A retail copy of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare surface online, approximately a month ahead of the highly anticipated shooter's release date. We know that Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Legacy Edition also comes with Modern Warfare Remastered, but what you probably don't know is the combined space required for the two games are 130 GB.
Via CoD blog Charlie Intel, French retailer Micromania handed out blank game boxes with the Modern Warfare Remastered campaign code to the people that pre-ordered the game on PS4. Since the game doesn't officially release until Nov. 4, these people will have to go back to Micromania on the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare release date to retrieve the disc.
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But I digress. images of the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Legacy Edition box surface online and reveal the absurd 130 GB HDD requirement for the video game, or approximately 90 GB for Infinite Warfare and 40 GB for Modern Warfare Remastered.
Large game files aren't new, but Infinite Warfare Legacy Edition's 130 GB HDD requirement takes up more than 25 percent of the space available in a standard 500 GB PS4 console. To the console gamers with limited console storage space: rest in pepperoni, fam.
Courtesy of Polygon, a graph comparing past Call of Duty titles reveal Infinite Warfare is 50 percent larger than Black Ops 3 (60 GB). Meanwhile, Modern Warfare Remastered is not even 10 percent larger than Advanced Warfare (55 GB).
The massive storage bloat in current gen games is even more apparent with the 37 GB Modern Warfare Remastered – It's more than four times the size of the original Modern Warfare title from 2007.
Do you look forward to grabbing a copy of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Legacy Edition on Nov. 4? How will you make space on your console HDD? Let us know in the comments!
