Ever wonder what exactly you’re getting when you buy a game disc these days? Well, in the case of the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, you’re getting approximately 0.07% of the actual game. Twitter user DoesItPlay revealed that the disc size for Modern Warfare 2 is just 72.23 MB, though the game itself requires at least a 100 GB install on all platforms.
70mb … pic.twitter.com/NkgamI1VIs
— Does it play? (@DoesItPlay1) October 26, 2022
Presumably, this 70 MB is simply the installer itself, rather than any actual game assets. However, it’s a stark change from even 10 years ago, when video games actually had to–shock horror–fit on the discs that they shipped out on. This change solidly set in sometime during the PS4/Xbox One generation of games, and it’s been that way ever since.