The topic of expandable storage has resurfaced once again after Sony's recent teardown of the PlayStation 5.
PS5 owners will have to unscrew their system to access the expansion slot, while Xbox users will simply plug Seagate's 1TB Expansion Card into the back of the Series X or S.
GM of Xbox Games Marketing, Aaron Greenberg, has used this as an opportunity to remind fans just how "easy" it will be and mentioned how there's "more to come", in terms of expansion card options.
"Big kudos to @jronald and our HW team for their approach to making next-gen expandable storage options easy for our fans. More to come here"
As noted by Xbox's Director of Progam Management Jason Ronald earlier this month, this is a category that's really critical to Microsoft and will develop over time - with the promise there'll be more options moving forward (thanks, @_XboxNews)
"You'll see multiple options and different form factors and different sizes."
Microsoft also told The Verge in September that more suppliers and additional sizes for these cards would be made available in the future.
On release, Seagate's 1TB Storage Expansion Card will be priced at £220 / $220, so it's nice to know there'll eventually be other options available - hopefully bringing down the overall price of these next-gen cards.
Will you be picking up Seagate's card on release, or holding out for more options? Tell us down below.
[source twitter.com]
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That's good news. Confirmation of multiple vendors is significant for pricing considerations and confirms there's no risk of x360 hdd or vita memory pricing/sizing issues.
I'm also really curious what different form factors may mean. Could we see some form of external enclosure with a cabled plug in addition to gamecard formats?
This get more affordable and will come with various options with time as seen in the usual YoY flash memory price fall.
Proprietary format enables it to be easily hot swappable by any average joe.
It seems like The Xbox series removable memory cards are pretty close to the maximum temperature you can allow a consumer to touch after about three hours of the game running off one. Given the PlayStation five upgrade drives are running almost 3 times as fast (i’m talking about the speed the memory runs not performance in games) It’s likely they had to go internal or risk burning customers.
I prefer MS approach as long as the prices are fair. It’s much easier to just plug another SSD into the back rather than open the console up.
More convenient and plug n play. I won't get one at launch because 1 TB will be enough for me for a while but later down the road I'll get one. I will probably just wait for a 2 TB option after prices come down a bit.
@Ryall 45C is considered a normal operating temperature of PC components. People just go along with unconfirmed exaggerated claims picking up 2/3 words from whole statement by 1 or 2 folks out of hundreds of reviewers without making any logical sense these days.
Options are definitely good
No intention of buying a £220 1TB expansion card at launch - I will make do with my 8TB External HDD and transfer if I have to until the range of options increase and the price per TB drops significantly...
@Senua all these messages on twitter sound to me like the Xbox Series X was getting very hot for these guys and they mentioned it then backtracked once they realised it was being taken to an over exaggeration and that MS won't be too happy with their comments!
So long as it doesn't break the console then extra heat isn't a bad thing for me. Will save on the heating. MS should use that as a positive - "Will reduce heating bills and save you even more money that just game pass alone"
@StonyKL Really nothing to tell from this. Atleast Microsoft has sent this prototype units to hundreds and some usual suspects are twisting words from 1 or 2 individuals without quoting their full original statements and the media has jumped into the bandwagon with it. PC components generate heat too and runs at almost twice as high as 45C. It means Series X is operating properly and ventilating heat efficiently as it’s supposed to without any noise.
I am getting the Series S and PS5 digital. PS5 1tb will be sufficient as I will only be playing exclusives. The S is more of a challenge, I reckon the final score on that will be 400GB. I already have an external SSD 1tb on my One X, so will use that for the BC games, and I have a 4tb on my pc that I could use as a sort of "pack mule" if necessary. I dont have much stored on my pc so losing that wont be a huge problem.
Series X stays cool, it's the air that it expels that's hot and that means that the cooling works optimally.
@Senua hey I agree with you - nothing to see here Xbox wise, but it does read in my head as "hey this thing is pumping out heat here guys......oh wait I probably shouldn't have said that as it's started something it shouldn't have.......oh damn MS won't be happy with me, I might not get another hand out from them again". That's the part I found amusing.
I will definitely be waiting until the price comes down and the storage capacity goes up. I might never actually need one but time will tell
I will wait until prices for the cards come down. But I’d much rather have an easy, plug and play option than have to open up the console.
Waiting on an adapter that les you plug any SSD into the expansion port I think.
I’m hoping that we will see an adaptor that allows standard NVMe SSDs with specs that match or exceed that of the seagate expansion card can be used.
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