NGL, I’ve been waiting for this. Yeah, yeah, proprietary expansion, too expensive, but on the Xbox, you won’t (currently) do better.
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Well, not ALL consoles. The PS5 uses a standard SSD slot. Pretty easy to get at too. Easier than the Steam Deck.
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps5-install-m2-ssd/
Probably harder making sure you get the “right” ssd than actually installing it.
“Easier than the Steam Deck” Probably because the PS5 is not a Portable device
What are we going to do if consumers still buy that stuff?
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Why not use non proprietary
Sure, you can swap out the internal SSD, it’s a 40 step process to just get to it:
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Xbox+Series+X+SSD+Replacement/141752
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Idk id do 40 steps to save that kind of money
Weird, I have a regular old 2TB (or maybe it was 1?) western digital plugged into the USB on the back of my series x and it works fine, not sure I understand the need to spend a bunch on something like this. Edit: and before responding about speed… I haven’t noticed much, if any, difference in game performance from installing on the drive or external outside of the initial game loading (startup) time, so not sure if that’s the only benefit to using the expansion slot.
USB drives are good for storage only, you can’t actually play the games from there. You have to move them to the SSD to play them.
Hmm I’ll have to check this later as I don’t remember ever running into that problem since my Xbox internal has been full for a while. But I also wonder if that applies to physical copies or not since all my series x games are physical. Unless Xbox does this automatically in the background without user intervention, then I may have not noticed
Yes, series X and S games can’t be played from external storage. You have to move them to the SSD.
Where you might be being tricked is that it WILL work for OLDER games, so if you’re using it for backwards compatible versions, it will work fine.
https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/using-an-external-usb-drive-with-an-xbox-series-x-or-s/
