Increasing your Xbox Series X/S storage may grow to be much more reasonably priced within the close to future if studies a few cheaper, 500GB growth card are to be believed.
As noticed by VGC, a French web site known as Xbox Squad studies {that a} 500GB model of Seagate’s Storage Enlargement Card is being offered to suppliers for €125.71 earlier than tax (round $150 / £110). Based mostly on this determine, Xbox Squad believes that the retail worth could be between €149-169 – that’s roughly $175-$200 or £125-£145.
That’s noticeably cheaper than the 1TB model of the Seagate Storage Enlargement Card, which prices $220 / £220. It’s at the moment the one means customers can improve the console’s super-fast SSD storage and has been available for purchase for the reason that Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S launched.
Regardless that some customers want to see a wider vary of storage choices, particularly with larger capacities obtainable, having a 500GB possibility may enchantment to informal customers who don’t wish to break the financial institution so as to add a bit of more room to retailer their Xbox Series X/S video games.
With video games rising bigger in dimension, nevertheless, we additionally count on Microsoft to launch a 2TB / 4TB possibility within the coming years, although larger capability storage tends to hold a much more costly price ticket.
Evaluation: reasonably priced storage choices are a should
It’s not low-cost to increase your Xbox Series X|S storage at the moment, because the official 1TB Seagate Enlargement Card retails at $220 / £220 – although now we have seen it obtainable for considerably much less.
Whereas Microsoft's storage resolution is much more user-friendly than on the PS5, which includes a step-by-step information and screwdriver versus Xbox's plug-in-and-play system, the very fact PS5 can use off-the-shelf M.2 SSDs means costs will be cheaper. You can too select from 500GB, 1TB, 2TB and 4TB SSDs.
The Xbox Series X does include more usable storage than the PS5, although: 802GB versus 664GB respectively. The Xbox Series S, in the meantime, solely has 364GB of usable storage however recreation file sizes will be as much as 30% smaller as they usually do not include 4K belongings.
With each PS5 and Xbox Series X/S utilizing super-fast solid-state drives that permit new gameplay alternatives and a vastly improved expertise in the case of load occasions, the consequence is that increasing your console's storage is pricier than it is ever been. Prices will slowly come down, after all, however they will stay at a premium for the foreseeable.
