Hopefully, that will become easier when Sony allows the PS5's internal storage to be officially expanded upon. If you want to actually play a PS5 game, then it has to be stored on the console itself. However, you are still unable to play PS5 games from the external hard drive. Sony updated the PS5's firmware a couple of months ago allowing owners to store PS5 games on external storage, something previously reserved for PS4 games. Better, but still bigger than those same three PS5 exclusives combined. Removing that from your SSD brings Black Ops Cold War's file size down to 154GB. The campaign, for instance, if you've finished it or you only want to play multiplayer. After Activision seemed incapable of keeping Call of Duty's file sizes down, it added the ability to uninstall elements of the games you don't necessarily need. I am planning to buy this game after playing both Cold War and Vanguard. Black Ops Cold War actually takes up more space than Returnal (56.15GB), Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (33GB), and Demon's Souls (52GB), all of which are PS5 exclusives, combined with a lot of room to spare. Thankfully, not all PS5 games are more than 200GB. The tech to compress it exists, but the file size just keeps increasing.

This game is now 219.8 GB on PS5, which has 667.2 GB of free console storage space to start with.

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