Xbox Series S design leaked, Confirmed at $300 this Holiday (Series X = $500)

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shikamaru317 said:

hinch said:

Xbox SSD Expansion Card price might have got leaked - $219

So thats how they're making back some of the money :P But yeah don't cheap out people.. get the XSX if you want a new Xbox. Its false economy going for entry level console.

I'm kind of doubtful the price would be that high. You can buy a Seagate NVMe SSD for PC with stats that are about on par with the internal SSD in Series X for $150 currently on Amazon, and MS partnered with Seagate to make their SSD cartridges. There will be some extra mark-up for sure due to the proprietary cartridge tech and profit margin, but $70 mark-up? Doubtful, especially since the price of SSD's with specs on par with the Series X SSD are expected to go down later this year as the latest, fastest SSD models release. I'll be shocked if a 1 TB cartridge costs more than $180 later this year personally. If they are $220 on release that is disappointing, but the pricing should go down over time as SSD costs continue to decrease, a 1 TB cartridge will eventually be affordable in a year or two. 

But even if it does cost $220 to add 1 TB to Xbox Series, we can't forget that PS5's SSD isn't much bigger than Series S at 825 GB, and expanding PS5's storage will be far more expensive since Sony is only allowing SSD's that are as fast as the internal SSD. The internal SSD in PS5 is twice as fast as the one in Xbox Series leading to increased retail cost, you're currently looking at $300+ to add 1 TB to PS5 I'm pretty sure (though Sony has yet to release official guidelines on what retail SSD's will be compatible with the PS5 so I can't be 100% sure of that).

No i dont think so. While sony has not clarified, they specifically said to play a ps5 game you need an ssd of 7GBs, but if you need just more storage you can probably add what ever ssd fits and then just transfer over games. It should only be seconds worth. So you get the benefit of not having a proprietary cartridge, wich will allow for competitive prices and the benefits of not needing it for gameplay jsut storage, wich could also lower prices more. So im gona go with sony will have more affordable expansions, while still offering better performance.