Update: Activision has confirmed the figure with Polygon, and we’ve updated the headline to reflect that. We’ve reached out to Activision for clarification on the 130 GB number and details on the actual size of Infinite Warfare. It remains to be seen how developers will handle exceeding the storage limitations of the Blu-ray disc (multiple discs? Patches for PS4 Pro support?), but for now the possibility of Infinite Warfare and Modern Warfare Remastered commanding 130 GB of your console’s storage space may be a sign of what’s to come. In addition to the annual size creep represented on the graph above, there’s a kind of generational leap happening here as well.
With Infinite Warfare supporting the PlayStation Pro, there’s even more reason to assume we’ll see a larger install size for the game, akin to the PC releases.
Of course, 41 GB is under the 50 GB storage limitation of a Blu-ray disc, while the PC release is downloaded via Steam. So while Black Ops 3 clocks in at 41 GB on PlayStation 4, it commands a whopping 60 GB on PC.
Why? Because they’re constrained by the core development platform (consoles in this case) but also are freed of the physical storage limitations that console games have. Of course, I’m pulling most of these figures from the PC releases of the Call of Duty games on Steam. Indeed, the generation spanning leap from Black Ops 2 to Ghosts resulted in a massive 150 percent increase in storage required. While a 90 GB install size for Infinite Warfare would be a 50 percent increase from the previous largest leap on the same generation - which was a 37.5 percent increase from Call of Duty: Ghosts to Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - it’s not so far out range as to be impossible to imagine.
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