| SvennoJ said: I'm guessing the upgrade will be in the storage. It's a game pass machine so it makes sense to upgrade the storage space first. [...] |
| rapsuperstar31 said: I don't think it needs a refresh yet, but a 1tb+ hard drive would be nice on the S. |
| Robert_Downey_Jr. said: Main thing would be to get more storage space |
I'm noticing a theme here. :)
They're trying to keep the Series S at a really low introductory price. More storage would be undeniably useful. But Series S has a very high attach rate with Game Pass, and a lot of GP content is Xbox One (or even Xbox 360 and OG Xbox). What do you think of including both a velocity-grade SSD, and a regular inexpensive SSD, in the system to keep storage up and costs down?
The system could automatically install content on one or the other depending on whether it's been upgraded for the velocity architecture or not. And even if ALL your content is newer games, you'd still get value out of the ability to swap those games out to the cheaper SSD if you're running out of space.
This way Microsoft could advertise the same amount of storage (1TB) on each Series system. On "X" systems it could all be velocity content, but on "S" systems it'd be a mix of velocity and regular. That would become part of what you're paying extra for on an "X". Obviously we all want as much out-of-the-box storage as we can get, but we need to be realistic about the price points that Microsoft wants to sell the "S" system at, so I think this compromise works. Thoughts?
