Activision has clarified that Call of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 received’t really require a 300 GB obtain regardless of earlier messaging.
Gamers started to panic in regards to the measurement of this 12 months’s Call of Responsibility after noticing its Xbox retailer web page yesterday. On the time, the web page listed that the sport would require a 309.85 GB obtain for these hoping to hop into the post-Chilly Battle first-person shooter when it launches this fall. That’ll put a fairly large dent within the laborious drive of most PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X | S consoles, so gamers had been, understandably, very involved.
The corporate has since cleared up the confusion in a post on X/Twitter. Activision’s hit FPS franchise has been identified to demand massive quantities of storage in recent times, however followers can relaxation simpler identified that Black Ops 6 will not take up fairly as a lot area.
Activision wrote, “Correction: The estimated file measurement at the moment displayed on the Black Ops 6 pre-order pages doesn’t symbolize the obtain measurement or disk footprint for Black Ops 6. The sizes as proven embody the total installations of Trendy Warfare II, Trendy Warfare III, Warzone and all related content material packs, together with all localized languages mixed which isn’t consultant of a typical participant set up expertise.”
Correction: The estimated file measurement at the moment displayed on the Black Ops 6 pre-order pages doesn’t symbolize the obtain measurement or disk footprint for Black Ops 6.
The sizes as proven embody the total installations of Trendy Warfare II, Trendy Warfare III, Warzone…
— Call of Responsibility Updates (@CODUpdates) June 10, 2024
The message provides that gamers could have the liberty to obtain solely Call of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 with none of its language packs in the event that they need. Sadly, the submit doesn’t reveal simply how huge the sport shall be however guarantees to share extra info “nearer to launch.”
IGN has reached out to Activision for remark.
Call of Responsibility: Black Ops 6 was revealed as Treyarch’s newest addition to the Black Ops sequence earlier this 12 months, however our first good have a look at the sport arrived yesterday on the Xbox Video games Showcase and Black Ops 6 Direct. This ‘90s-set installment introduces a bunch of new weapons and options, together with omnidirectional motion and new Zombies maps for the return of its round-based mode. As the sport introduces a brand new period of Call of Responsibility, it additionally means content material from Trendy Warfare 2 and three won’t carry over.
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