Actually, you could save yourself the physical release directly: Activision publishes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on disc, but the amount of data on it is negligible.
Activision has come up with something. Instead of squeezing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 entirely onto the PS5 disc included with the physical version, there’s only 70MB of data in total. No, we didn’t make a typo here. Apparently, the storage medium only works as a copy protection measure, nothing more. Assuming that a regular UHD Blu-Ray has around 100 gigabytes of storage, you can imagine how much air is left on the disc.
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So if you want to play, you can’t avoid a massive download. On the Sony console, the game measures 152 GB in total. This also includes the day-one patch, which brings it to an impressive 40 gigabytes. So you have to download both the multiplayer mode and the singleplayer campaign completely. Good luck to all of you who have a wooden pipe at home.
Similar approaches are certainly no stranger to PC gamers. For example, Konami took a similar path with Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain. A Steam installer was found on the PC disc of the stealth adventure. no lie.
With Modern Warfare 2, on the other hand, this approach fits in with Activision’s targeted approach of severely shutting down physical releases in the future and ideally discontinuing them completely at some point. The advantages are obvious, logistics and data carrier production is expensive. And let’s be honest, only very few titles actually end up on a data carrier.
Two days before the official release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, here is the launch trailer for you.
