Xbox Users Slam ‘Ridiculous’ System Requirements, Secret Setting May Help

Xbox users have slammed the “ridiculous” system requirements of one particular game, but settings that may have gone unnoticed could help resolve the issue quickly.

Back in the day, on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, it used to be a big deal if a video game took up more than 20GB of storage space. Nowadays, for most major AAA games, you can expect that number to be at least 80GB to 100GB, sometimes even more.

One of the biggest culprits of taking up vast chunks of precious storage space on PC and modern consoles is the Call of Duty series. Thankfully, outside of completely uninstalling a game, there are several ways that you can free up storage space without making major sacrifices.

“This is getting ridiculous,” exclaimed Redditor bugtown3, sharing a screenshot of how much storage space the Call of Duty hub is taking up. For this gamer, it’s a grand total of 330.4GB.

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“I know that I can remove most of the stuff I won't play, but how is it this large? Do people really have it all downloaded? Just BO7 zombies + multiplayer is over 200GB. I thought maybe I would play some COD on Game Pass while I wait for the new Forza, but the game size alone deters me.”

How Can You Save Storage Space on Xbox?

As detailed on the Xbox support website, you can do little things, such as going to Profile & System > Settings > System > Storage. Once here, select ‘Manage Storage Devices’ and select ‘Clear Local Saves’. While this will clear saved data on your console, that data will remain saved in the cloud. You can also do the same for ‘Clear Local Xbox 360 Storage’.

Furthermore, in ‘My Games & Apps’, select See All > Manage > Free Up Space, and here it will recommend games to uninstall that you might not have played for a while. Of course, if you return to that game, just reinstall it, and your saved data will remain on the console or the cloud.

Another great way to free up storage space, especially for franchises such as Call of Duty, is to go to ‘My Games & Apps’, hover the cursor over a game and press the ‘Menu’ button. Now select ‘Manage Game and Add-ons’ and from here you can delete individual DLC that you might not want to use right now.

In terms of what this means for most Call of Duty games, this allows you to delete the single-player campaign, the online mode, Zombies and anything else that you might not use. This in itself can potentially save hundreds of GB.

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