We're less than a week away from the release of Elden Ring on Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S on Friday, February 25th, and you can now begin pre-installing the game — even if you haven't bought it yet!
If you have bought Elden Ring digitally via the Microsoft Store, you should find that the pre-load has begun automatically, with the game clocking in at just under 50GB on Xbox Series X. Here's some proof of it:
If you haven't bought Elden Ring yet, or you're waiting on a physical version of the game to arrive, you can instead pre-install the game by heading to the official Xbox mobile app on Android or iOS. Here's how to do it:
- Open the Xbox app for Android or iOS
- Go to the magnifying glass on the bottom tab
- Search for the word "Elden" and select the game page for Elden Ring
- Hit "Download to Console", and choose a console to install the game on
There's always the chance you may need to download another day one update when next Friday rolls around, but this'll at least get you prepared by installing the base version of the game. We're on the home stretch now!
Looking forward to the release of Elden Ring next week? Let us know in the comments below.
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8.7 GB Free!!! Do you even have room for the Day 1 patch?
@themightyant The woes of the anemic storage and awful options this generation of Xbox launched with lol.
@Medic_Alert £220 RRP for an additional 1TB of storage. That's virtually half the cost of a Series X and prices have hardly moved.
@Medic_Alert For starters the high line console only coming with "1TB" of storage. That wasn't enough for my One X. And it was enough for my PC half a decade ago. Then the poor Series S coming with only "500GB" storage? The same amount the original Xbox One launched with? That is of course before you loose all your save due to system files etc. Leaving you at roughly 700GB/300GB, accordingly.
Then you have expansion options where you're paying 1.5-2X for storage you'd be paying on PC, despite having slower I/O speeds.
And this is all ignoring the fact that the PS5 generally has faster load time despite using a standard SSD where you don't have to worry about the proprietary BS you do on Xbox.
Thanks for this lol, couldn't find it under 'Elden Ring'. They've really gotta fix that, and when will they finally give us the option to just pre-load on the console as well.
@Medic_Alert I have a few price alerts for these. The lowest it's generally been on sale for is around £180 recently and only occasionally. It been fixed at around £195 for the last 6 months.
There were a few a bit cheaper but these were either second hand/returns, buy from overseas stores, or in such limited numbers as to basically not be available. Lucky if you managed to bag one for less.
Meawhile the 512GB card is currently an eye-watering £125 (£160 RRP) and the 2TB is about £375 (£475 RRP).
I think Microsoft's box is a marvel but this was the wrong storage expansion solution imo. The only benefit is quick swap/being able to take with you, both of which are niche features used by a small group and not worth the huge price premium over a standard nvme SSD.
@Cherip-the-Ripper Yeah, that's what I was searching for initially as well. Very strange that "Elden" works but "Elden Ring" doesn't!
I'd rather scoop my own eyeballs out with a spoon. From Software games are terrible.
Less than a week away? I think you’ve got a bit too excited and missed a few days 😉
@Medic_Alert Can you go out and buy an off the shelf M.2 SSD and installed it in the Xbox? No. Can you with a PS5? Yes.
"High end" and "low end" don't matter here.
Your argument is like buying H or Z rated tires(high speed or low speed SSD) versus to having to buy an entire rim/adapter/hub assembly.
The internal storage on the PS5 is absolutely replaceable. I've upgraded quite a few friends PS5's. One even to a 4TB internal. Meanwhile the Xbox is locked to a specific SKU that you have to write to ala the original Xbox and 360 days.
Your comment on flexibility is also a non point as Microsoft themselves have been flowing the idea that people don't go over to other places as much thus the removal of splitscreen from giants like Halo. And other developers have followed suite. So that as justification itself is laughable.
I have two Series X, two PS4, 2 Switches, 2PCs, q
1 One X and 1 One S, all currently hooked up. You know what I've never needed to do? Hot swap storage between them. Because the same things are generally on all of them so they can be used whenever. To add to this, more then one is in use at generally any given point so swapping wouldn't even be a convenience feature. It was be an inconvenience.
Uwwwwhh! I cant wait, Just 9 more days. Honestly I cant motivate myself to play anything else right now, because in my mind Im always like "well yeah but this isnt elden ring"
@WILLBACRIMP lol
I thought this was great but now the icon is just staring back at me and I wanna play so bad 😂
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