The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 disc is a 70MB coaster

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Some players have gotten early copies of the retail version of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and are reporting that the disc contains just a few megabytes of data - meaning that basically the entꦺire game still has to be 🅘downloaded from the internet.

The initial report comes from ,💜 an account that catalogs which retail game discs require additional downloads in order to be played. A screenshot of the information screen from the PS5 version of Modern Warfare 2 suggests that just 72.23MB of data is on the disc. The full game install is well over 100GB, so you can expect a massive download. The situation appears to be similar on Xbox, though we haven't seen the exact install sizes.

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notes that the disc versions of the past several entries in the series, including Vanguard, Black Ops: Cold War, and the previous Modern Warfare, all require additional downloads and are unplayable🀅 offline.

But while Call of Duty's discs are perfunctory these days, the same is not true of all retail releases, or even a majority of them. Physical versions of recent hits like Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 are fully playable without additional downloads - with the caveat that each of those examples are dramatically improved by post-launch patches. And online features like the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Modern Warfare 2 Battle Pass are more usual download additions. 

Digital games offer plenty of advantages over their physical counterparts, like pre-loads, early releases, convenient launches from your console, and the lack of physical waste. For folks🍃 who still buy physical media, however, those things don't beat the ability to play without an internet connection, keep an archival version of the game on a shelf, and trade or sell that title.

You can at least trade or sell the Modern Warfare 2 disc, but it's missing all the other advantages of physical media. Subscription services and disc drive-free consoles suggestꦚ that publishers are eager to go full digital, but many players aren't ready or willing to make that jump.

Check out our guide to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Call of Duty MW2 pre-orders if you're looking for a coaster of your own, or look at the details for the Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer release time if you're making the most of your digital download.

Dustin Bailey
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