This easily the best spenditure I made lol. Not worrying about what I have installed is great and I know Ill never play 2TB worth of games at a time.
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Iām using an external SSD through a USB 3.0 and itās more than enough for now for 8th gen titles and 9th gen with old xdk (like SOT, MCC, etc), those games are not using any advanced API, the limit is still CPU.
As far as iām concerned its a luxery. Iām not paying 230 bucks for an extra 1TB. Right now I donāt need it. I manage my games properly.
And me not playing Destiny COD or any big games gives me some more space to work with
Iāve said this before when i got the series X and this storage thing was announcedā¦1TB is not enough for a 230 investmant
When they announce a 2TB solution then iāll consider it.
EDIT: didnāt realise i already posted on this thread lol. My opinion hasnāt changed on the subject.
Thats wbat this tech goes for so I dont know how its not enough. Dont buy it then and swap your games around if thats what you want.
Thats tbe beauty of xbox ā¦ choices.
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Itās a little less than $200 if you wait for typical deals.
I just use a combo of internal for S/X games Iām currently playing or will be soon, a 1TB SSD for BC games Iām playing, and 4TB cold storage drive for the stuff Iām not going to play for a bit. Itās not as easy as other solutions but isnāt too big of a hassle.
No download cap on my ISP so I just have to be ruthless with what I delete these days. Have been keeping 100GB for flight sim recently
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I assumed I would need one when buying the console (but would wait for a sale/price drop) but have since come to the conclusion that I really donāt.
Downloading in the low power state is reliable, so when I want to switch games around in my library I just do a round of delete and downloads before I go to bed and āswitch offā the console.
Everything is ready for me the next day.
When all you need installed is all you are actively playing, the 802GB internal is actually plenty. Hell, I would probably get on fine with the 360GB on the Series S.
My personal issue with MS is that NVME drives are not needed for 99,9% of the new GDK games also, a simple USB SSD can make it without problems and itās only a system toggle which make it impossible. They want to gouge people on accessories as usual, all of them (in this regard Sony and MS are equally bad).
This dude has made a topic saying its required. And Iām not buying it. I donāt care if thats the tech. I said itās too much for 1tb. I didnāt say itās overpriced for the tech it is. I know itās expensive. Which is more a reason for me to wait.
I donāt care if itās 200 500 or 1000 dollar tech. For 1 TB itās not worth it for an upgrade. 2TB at 350 dollars would be more enticing.
Thereās no gouging for this. This is probably costing them more to make. They canāt sell it to you for less.
My issue is the amount of space. If Iām spending hundreds of dollars. I rather go deeper and get a 2TB. So Iāll wait for a 2TB when itās priced appropriately.
That was my take before July. Now that I see so many titles I am going to be playing soon, that are Series Optimized and requiring NVME storage, I changed my mind. I traded off cost for my own convenience and got the 1TB.
If they announce a 2TB expansion card in the next month, you can all thank me for my sacrificeā¦
Iām probably the only person here who will never need the SSD storage card or any extra storage in general. Yay me!! lol
Me neither, lol. Iāll probably never need to have more than 5 games on my console at once. Also have a gigabit connection, so redownloading isnāt the end of the world.
I have AC Origins, AC Odyssey, AC Valhalla, Bright Memory, Cyberpunk 2077, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Outriders and The Division 2 all installed which takes up 60% of my storage space. Except for the upcoming The Ascent, I donāt have a major massive game until Far Cry 6 which will be a disc purchase and once the base game is complete, will be uninstalled and traded in. I have a 1gig internet connection which usually averages around 600mbps, sometimes higher or lower depending on the time of day but no complaints. I downloaded AC Origins/AC Odyssey in like 15 minutes each which wasnāt bad at all since theyāre around 90gb or something like that.
I only way that I could see myself running out of storage space is if I have 10 or so games that are live service (ala The Division 2) and goes on literally for years and years with new expansions and content. Other than that, I donāt see having an issue for the entire generation and what I just mentioned is slim to no chance of happening.
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The hyperbole on here is quite something. Just use cheap SATA SSD cold storage.
I mean if you have no problem moving games back and forth people should use the storage they want. The Xbox expansion works fantastic and I avoid all that hassle.
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Pretty sure you can sell the 1TB and get the 2TB.
Iām in a position right now where Iām managing the space well. I do not install games I donāt plan on playing within a few days. My backlog is huge. But I donāt need all my backlog games installed.
I donāt have an external hooked up to my series x either. But how often are you moving games back and fourth?? How many different games do people actively play in the same week?
Of course it works fantastic. Thr Seagate expansion is a great add on. But itās no way near essential right now. Certainly not for all. For some sure.
In theory Noone needs it. Itās nice to have. But going back looking at my gaming historyā¦Iāve never really expanded my storage before first 2 years of getting that hardware. When I bought the Xbox one it was a 1TB forza edition. Eventually I got a expansion but thatās because it was cheap and HDD. Same with ps4. But a 500mb ps4 did me fine for at least a couple of years.
Clearly games are bigger now. More space is always nice.
But weāve never been in a position where storage costs half the price of the console for a double memory increase. Even with the latter 360 models. You could plug in a USB hdd and format the drive. A 10 buck USB stick could fit in gta 5 install. Thatās what I did back then.
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Iām using both I have the expansion card for all the Series X games I have a ton of those and a 5TB usb drive for all the non Series X games. I was all digital last gen and with the great BC of Series X I have hundreds of games I can launch at any time.
I do still have to move stuff around every couple of weeks to make room for new Series X games.
Between BC and gamepass I have tons of games on my system.
Once a 2TB expansion drive is out Iāll get that as well
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