The system requirements for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare IV will represent a hard break from the mechanical hard drive era and the 4-core CPU architecture. While the minimum specifications remain accessible to owners of older mid-range hardware (GTX 10-series), the recommended experience will necessitate a shift towards NVMe storage and modern RTX/RDNA graphics architectures. As the franchise pushes for photorealism and high-frame-rate multiplayer, the recommended specifications highlight the necessity of CPU single-core performance and VRAM capacity.