The Xbox Series S Reportedly Has 364GB Of Usable Storage

That was to be expected. Will be tight if future games use more and more space.

To be expected, have to stick with using an external ssd for now. Hopefully the expansion cards will come down in price

These new SSD's are VERY expensive right now.
If they put 1TB in, the cost of the machine would jump up, making the whole existence of the console itself null and void.

That doesn't stop this being a major issue though.
If this is aimed at casuals, that means your Fortnite, COD, FIFA crowd.
COD Cold War is supposed to be 141GB on consoles.
FIFA 21 is 50GB.
Now you're left with around 160GB left before you've even touched Game Pass content.

These casual gamers aren't then going to go spend almost the same price as the console on the expansion card.

Isit really that big a deal, I managed fine all gen with a 500gb hard drive.. I am getting the series x BTW.

Called it. You’ll need to buy the SSD expansion card so would have been better getting the X. But that will only have around 750GB

While obviously more would be great, I will manage just fine with this amount. I rarely play more than 3 games at the same time, and I could use an external HDD in the meanwhile, but I doubt I will need to.

I've been making my way through many games on Game Pass this year and I just delete a game once I complete it and then move on to the next one.

That all said, I do hope that expansion card comes down in price soon. Once games the size of COD: Warzone potentially become the norm, that 364GB ain't gonna cut it.

I’m a weirdo who is buying a series s and the 1 tb expansion card... only reason being that I’m planing to upgrade to the series x in February/March when they become More readily available. Then I can easily move over most of my games to the new console.

Makes little sense to buy the S then. Once you factor in the price of the expansion card it comes down to the same amount you have to pay for the X.

@WesEds
Series X has 802GB usable space.
For comparison, PS5 has 667GB usable.

All next gen consoles will struggle for space if games are bloated in size.

Exactly what I was expecting, the fact that they have managed to get the UI partition down (from 198gb on series x ) is impressive. (Considering the UI and quick resume features are practically the same).

I was expecting around this amount based on all the other 500gb consoles that have launched.

I think of it this way: you are getting a console with a high speed SSD for only a little more than an SSD running at that speed.

I will be using an external SSD for non optimised games.

Given the Series X has about 200GB knocked off its 1TB the Series S is actually a bit more that I expected (I thought 300-325) if this is indeed accurate. I plan of having a 5TB external drive connected for storage and will keep the games I'm actively playing (Valhalla, Gears 5, Gears Tactics and likely Forza Horizon 4) installed on the internal and will swap other titles in and out as required if I get a hankering to play something different or want to give one of those a break for a while if space becomes an issue. I have decent download speeds at home now so it's less a concern to have everything installed all at the same time (I'd got over 10TB on external drives for the One before getting new broadband - went from avg.7mb/s to avg.170 so it makes quite a difference!)
If/when the expansion card comes down in price I'll get one of them as I can then use that in the Series X when I upgrade to that (hoping at some point next year)

One game at a time guys!

It would be great to see a comparison of game file sizes on the series S. There was a report that it's only loading in assets for the lower resolution and that was making games 30% smaller...but was that all games or just optimized series games? @fraserg can you comment on this?

This for the casual gamers who only play COD and Madden.. Over 300 sounds tiny but you could still download 5 games at a time on it.. I don't get the hate for uninstalling games, It's not like you lose everything, all of your save data is on the cloud and not going anywhere after you uninstall it..

Series X is wunderbar console, but this parody should have never happened. Isn't series X affordable enought? I think it is.

Bout what I expected. I dont imagine it being too big of a hassle with a sizable external hdd

I might as well save a little more for an X. Will cost me more for an S and the storage.

Well this console is aimed purely to the OG-casuals who only play the newest CoD's, Madden's or FIFA's (in Europe) so that shouldn't be too big of an issue.

Remember, the series s is a "casual/family" machine. So they probably aren't stuffing their ssd with games, like a series x owner would. 2-3 games, switching between those, should be more than enough. You get what you pay for, right?

We all knew this was going to be the case. I'll just be waiting for the inevitable 1tb Series that will be out in 2 years or so

@blinx01 exactly. That’s why I was surprised the S wasn’t a 1tb because about 20% is always reserved

@Medic_Alert even then, knowing that they are there, means you dont have to download every single gamepass game, just the few you wanna play.

Clearly designed to fit exactly one Fallout76 patch.

Can you plug your old Xbox into series s or x and use its internal hard drive

This is part of the reason why I am holding off on new consoles for a while, as an Xbox One X owner it just isn't worth it until expandable storage becomes cheaper. I know my 4TB external drive was a huge deal for me with my Xbox One so the thought of having to make do with nothing besides the standard 1TB sounds like a huge setback, let alone just 512 like my launch Xbox. Right now I got 5TB of space for my Xbox One X and it's just barely enough for me to have everything I want installed, but it totally works.

@FraserG Just seen confirmation from MS that the storage for Series S will be 379GB:

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/hardware-network/console/xbox-series-x-faq

Listed under Xbox Series S "deep dive"

The sheer amount of potential Series X owners arguing about a Series S limitation is silly. sighs this system have several major use cases scenarios which really don’t require heavy storage needs.

1) Secondary console for either current XSX owners and their spouse/kid/sibiling or other device owners. In this use case, the system will probably only need to have 1-3 games installed. Like you really want to play Fable but own Switch only etc. Or co-op games that you’ll play with the other family member. It’s also highly likely in this use case that the primary XSX has a memory card already.

2) “Casual” audience- In this use, the person has their primary game ala Fortnite and then will rotate the annual game they play.

3) Gamepass machine, in which case you know the first party ones are staying on the system.

Look I know the Series S seems silly to someone whose getting a Series X, but of course it would it doesn’t suit your needs.

The Switch Lite isn’t a “Switch” and yet still boast good sales. It fits the audience that it was designed for as this will.

The fact is the internal size limit on the XSX (and the PS5) because these audiences tend to like to have an “archive” of all their stuff. And neither of the big boys have big internal storage.

512GB SSD for a next-gen €300/£250 console makes sense, remember that PS5 has just a bit more of storage. Series S makes sense for casual players, multiplatform players and people with more than one Xbox. They don't need an expansion card like some people say because they can use an external HDD/SSD or re-download games but they might buy an expansion card when they're cheaper. Series S is a clever idea.

I’ll be going with a Series X myself.

But as others have said, you can transfer your games to a cheap external drive when you aren’t playing them. I do this all the time on my Xbox One. It’s really fast & not a hassle at all.

Plus to get a next-gen console for $299 is insane. Some things had to get cut down for that price point.

@FraserG Yeah I am confused too! guessing it was what they thought it would be and maybe had to change it last minute.

@BlueOcean
Keep the fact real. Reports are suggesting that series S has 364gb of usable storage. Which is beyond lame.

@tinCAT-zero Didn't you promise to ignore me as an annoyed and frustrated PS troll wasting his time on an Xbox site? Your life must be boring and sad indeed.

@BlueOcean
No, never promised anything. Still an aggressive little fanboy I see. Maybe you'll get a series S for crimbo🤞

@tinCAT-zero Go back to your PS cave!

@BlueOcean
You're pathetic.

@tinCAT-zero Yes yes troll, now go back to your PS cave.

@BlueOcean
If you'd brains you'd be dangerous. But since you are pretty low in that department I'll ignore you childish drivel. Best of luck with series S 👍 and the PS4. I'd nearly forgotten you have a PS4, but you already told me and everyone else on Push square - "I've a PS4"