Random: Xbox Fan Installs 1000 Games To See How Much Storage Space They Take Up

These days, it's getting harder and harder to find enough room to download all our Xbox games on Series X and especially Series S - and it feels near-on impossible when you factor in all the Xbox Game Pass titles as well.

However, one Xbox fan has been experimenting with this recently, taking it upon themselves to download 1,000 games - all of which they own digitally - to see exactly how much storage space is required to keep them all installed.

They say they're doing this in case the Xbox servers are ever shut down and the ability to download these titles is lost, as well as having the convenience of swapping titles between various storage devices rather than constantly installing and uninstalling them.

Here's a quick look at the proof - 1,000 games installed on their Xbox console:

The answer to the question? Around 15TB. That's how much storage space the Xbox fan is taking up with these 1,000 games right now, spread across a mix of SDD and HDD devices.

"I recently surpassed 1,000 owned digital games on my Xbox Live account, and my goal has been to have them all installed simultaneously in the event that the Xbox servers ever shut down and access to downloads is lost (which to be fair I don’t see actually happening anytime in the near future). It’s also nice to just have everything downloaded already and simply swap titles between the HDDs and SSDs rather than deleting and redownloading stuff. I just hit 1,000 installed games and figured I’d share my findings on how much space that requires.

The answer is, about 15 terabytes."

Now, the caveat to this is that we don't know exactly what those 1,000 games are, and games can obviously range from a few hundred MB to 100GB+ on Xbox these days - so your mileage may vary if you're trying the same thing.

And again, as mentioned, these games are spread across a mix of the internal drive, Expansion Card(s) and standard external hard drives, and anything stored on the latter has to be transferred to either the internal drive or an Expansion Card if it's optimised for Xbox Series X|S (otherwise it simply won't run). We fear for this person "Updates" list as well - they're probably having to update 20+ games every single week!

Still, this is a really interesting little experiment, and looking at the comments, there are people who have even downloaded more than 1,000 games onto their Xbox console - one person says they have 8,000 installed right now!

So, we're keen to hear how many games you've personally installed at once in the poll below, and let us your thoughts about this experiment in the comments section. Do you think it's a good idea to keep this many games installed?

How Many Xbox Games Do You Have Installed Right Now? (441 votes)

  1. Just a few32%
  2. Somewhere around 5016%
  3. 51-10015%
  4. 101-20010%
  5. 201-3006%
  6. 301-4004%
  7. 401-5001%
  8. 501-100010%
  9. 1000+6%

What did you vote in the poll? Let us know in the comments.