Imagine complaining about loading times for years and MS finally gives you the latest and greatest tech to finally minimize loading times and people complain about the price of the latest and greatest tech.
So because we wanted faster load times means we should be happy about overpriced storage.
So because we wanted faster load times means we should be happy about overpriced storage.
Latest and greatest tech costs money. If ya can't afford it, get a new hobby, better job, or use external HDD's and shift your most played games to the internal SSD. No one NEEDS this external card, you just WANT it.
Ruh Roh! Somebody be collectin dem welfare checks.
Places like Eurogamer, Arstechnica and Engadget are saying It compares to similar SSDs that use PCIe and usually cost around $200.
Over priced or under priced. It's going in the HOLE in my Series X, bitches.
There's an article speculating that a similar product for a competing console could be priced very similarly.
This is why hard drives have been a stealth price increase on consoles for awhile now. Honestly, what if both could double the space and charge $600?
There will be more options and more competition down the line.
This is why hard drives have been a stealth price increase on consoles for awhile now. Honestly, what if both could double the space and charge $600?
There will be more options and more competition down the line.
Some people are buying XSS instead of XSX,skipped the midgen upgrades and think 1080p gaming is sufficient.
I call em cheap gamers.
Except PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe SSD's are expensive and that's what this expansion card is in a proprietary form factor. People would still be complaining about price even if they gave the ability to use off the shelf Gen 4 PCI-E NVMe SSD's. New technology is expensive, period.
Here is a 1TB Gen 4 drive from Sabrent, who I wouldn't call a top of the line brand in this field. It's 199.99, same ball park as the Xbox expansion drive.
Amazon product
Not to mention Sony's SSD is even more proprietary in nature and they haven't discussed storage expansion at all.
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Because it is still overpriced.
Big difference here is the off the shelf stuff will drop in price much quicker due to competition.
Don't care about Sony. It's about $30 more than average because of proprietary connection. Not abnormal. It's the choice of storage that's abnormal. Sure, they may be future proofing it, but it's absurd that, a nearly mandatory, storage expansion is nearly 50% of the purchase price.
Edit: Saw one for $170. So, it's about $50 more for a proprietary connection.
Microsoft. As of now this is the only game in town. Also...
Edit: Saw one for $170. So, it's about $50 more for a proprietary connection, or nearly 25% premium.
Because it is propriatarty tech. If you think dozens of manufactures will be makihg these like on PC, then lols.
A Primer on the Simple and Custom Storage Options Available for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S at Launch - Xbox Wire
For Xbox players, backwards compatibility and Xbox Game Pass have made it possible for us all to have libraries of games at our fingertips at the beginning of the new console generation. One of the promises of Xbox Series X|S is the ability to play four generations of games: favorites, those...
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Xbox Wire: Will all Storage Expansion Cards come from Seagate or could we see them from other companies as well?
Jason Ronald: Seagate, with a storied history as a critical innovator in the storage industry, was our first choice to collaborate with to provide expandable storage solutions for the Xbox Velocity Architecture. Xbox is continuing to invest in the Expandable Storage category on Xbox Series X|S with goal of offering choice for Xbox fans, including additional capacities and implementations in the future.
Huh? How does that make this mandatory? You can store things on external HDDs. Still waiting for why having this thing is mandatory,
So other companies are making them...kool.A Primer on the Simple and Custom Storage Options Available for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S at Launch - Xbox Wire
For Xbox players, backwards compatibility and Xbox Game Pass have made it possible for us all to have libraries of games at our fingertips at the beginning of the new console generation. One of the promises of Xbox Series X|S is the ability to play four generations of games: favorites, those...
Xbox Wire: Will all Storage Expansion Cards come from Seagate or could we see them from other companies as well?
Jason Ronald: Seagate, with a storied history as a critical innovator in the storage industry, was our first choice to collaborate with to provide expandable storage solutions for the Xbox Velocity Architecture. Xbox is continuing to invest in the Expandable Storage category on Xbox Series X|S with goal of offering choice for Xbox fans, including additional capacities and implementations in the future.
The one that was linked to that is available now for 199.99 I bought two of last July for my Ryzen build at 199.99 each, so that drop is still slow. It's also faster by a fair bit than the SSD card seagate wants is to pay even more for
A Primer on the Simple and Custom Storage Options Available for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S at Launch - Xbox Wire
For Xbox players, backwards compatibility and Xbox Game Pass have made it possible for us all to have libraries of games at our fingertips at the beginning of the new console generation. One of the promises of Xbox Series X|S is the ability to play four generations of games: favorites, those...
Xbox Wire: Will all Storage Expansion Cards come from Seagate or could we see them from other companies as well?
Jason Ronald: Seagate, with a storied history as a critical innovator in the storage industry, was our first choice to collaborate with to provide expandable storage solutions for the Xbox Velocity Architecture. Xbox is continuing to invest in the Expandable Storage category on Xbox Series X|S with goal of offering choice for Xbox fans, including additional capacities and implementations in the future.
That doesn't say anything about "no other companies will make these in the future"