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WD_Black Xbox 1tb Expansion Card showing up on Best Buy
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Panajev2001a
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LostDonkey
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You know I've had both consoles since near launch, never expanded either storage and I've not ran into any issues yet.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
I'm so lucky I got my 2tb off amazon for 230...but they honored the fuck up...just had to wait like 3 weeks lol
How? Genuine question, especially if you have Game Pass, I'm lucky that just normal external drives are fine for Xbox/360/One/Emulation because for anything X|S branded I'm constantly moving shit around like it's a hot potato.
Yeah, the price is .. still to expensive but at least it goes into the right direction.
This does hopefully also mean that now also other companies can enter that market.
Rocco Schiavone
Member
It's not the same price, the other one is $220, and $200 on sale. This is $180 at list price
SteelCurtain 59
Member
Hopefully this leads to some better pricing some time soon, obviously unlikely to ever match non-proprietary but being less than 2-3x as expensive would be a start.
LostDonkey
Member
I have GP ultimate.
I guess I'm just one of the few who deleted as soon as finished with a game. The only permanent install I have is FH5.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Cool for you. Doesn't change the fact that Sonys solution is way cheaper.
DaGwaphics
Member
Still a little too high and looks to still be using an ultra short drive. They need to make a physically larger version that lets the manufacturers make use of the cheaper 2280 drives. It's a start I guess, maybe they are loosening the licensing deals a bit.
ILHASS
Member
I forgot that the price of Seagate is so high it's insane. 180 is better but still too high.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Is that price a typo?
To be honest, I personally think it’s fine . You buy , you plug it in , done.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
The one thing they don't need with gamepass though is people worrying about storage and having expansion be so expensive works against them.
KrazyKrelian
Banned
Wait for bomba pricing.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Good. More vendors, more pricing options. Get Crucial on-board and start offering even more competitively priced options.
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Kilau
Member
And in only 2 and half short years, we are truly blessed with options.
dotnotbot
Member
Is that price a typo?
Just MS funding its "we have no plans to raise console prices" good guy narrative
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Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Thats still an awful price. Microsoft was so goddamn stupid to go with this kind of memory solution.
BlackTron
Member
When you have more devices you need less storage consolidated on one device. One might say you got a 1TB expansion card for multiplatform games called Series X that is freeing up your PS.
The demographic is getting older and older , I think they are fine , enough money in this demographic.
ShadyAcshuns
Member
Needs to be about $80 cheaper to be a good value.
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
The exclusivity deal with Seagate seems to have expired. I wonder who else can manufacture these cards, or will it be anyone?
MasterCornholio
Member
01011001
Banned
I assume it will be anyone.
I wonder if they can make them as fast as they want or if they have to stick to the current standard.
it would be interesting if they introduced super fast versions of this, and what effects it would have to loading times.
FingerBang
Member
I remember people criticizing Sony for not launching the SSD support out of the gate and for the PS5's limited storage. Yet, everybody with the minimum level of intelligence would know this would happen. And here we are, where you can buy double the space for your PS5 for around the same price.
But hey, what's important is that they have an excellent solution from day one, am I right?
Fuck proprietary BS, no matter who's the manufacturer
But hey, what's important is that they have an excellent solution from day one, am I right?
Fuck proprietary BS, no matter who's the manufacturer
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Banjo64
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They can’t refuse to introduce budget options as the generation still has 4-5 years left in it and PS5 options will continue to tumble in price over that time period.
M1chl
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Don't expect price drop, look at prices of SDD format 2230 and you can see, that these cards are not overpriced from that PoV. But I would still appreciate possibility of some standard 2280 option.
But again, based on some article few months ago, MS is loosing 200USD per XSX, so I doubt that some "open" options happens.
But again, based on some article few months ago, MS is loosing 200USD per XSX, so I doubt that some "open" options happens.
Not having the software support for SSD expansion at launch is separate from their choice of standard storage medium.
1TB 2230 SSDs from Sabrent are like $149.
I don’t believe it was ever stated they were losing $200 on XSX (doesn’t seem credible), but even if that were the case, I’m not sure how that impacts any open options or pivot to 2280s.