There isn’t a affordable clarification for this. If 95% of different builders can hold their file sizes affordable, a AAA recreation developer like Infinity Ward ought to be capable of do the identical.
Compress audio and visuals extra. Nobody must see excessive res rusted espresso cans and different trinkets littering multiplayer maps when individuals are operating and gunning.
And if they’re duplicating belongings many occasions over like they’ve supposedly completed for earlier video games that could possibly be performed off of a conventional arduous drive, cease that as properly for the variations of the sport which might be performed on Sequence consoles. These are required to be performed from the SSD, so duplicating belongings is actually only a waste of area.
Simply one other instance of how the CoD builders actually do not care about their clients or participant base.
