Xbox Series S refresh

[DonFerrari]

SvennoJ said:

DonFerrari said:

Bigger internal drives have been a very common thing on the consoles with the passing of years and well with more games available more space is needed to keep them. So they could still have the series S with 1Tb internal and sell well on the expansion.

True, yet Series S 500GB for $249 will sell more than Series 1tb for $299. It's the 'get in the door' machine. Price is the most important factor. And MS is already going to offer a cheaper 512GB expansion.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/10/21/new-seagate-storage-expansion-cards/

$140 for 512 GB
$220 for 1TB (current price at bestbuy)
$400 for 2Tb

So cheaper storage is already coming. I guess MS rather have you buy a cheaper Series S with the cheaper storage expansion option. Next to controllers, the margins are on those expansion cards.

Sure. I do agree with you for sales it is better to drop the price than to increase the storage. It will only be a matter of MS satisfied with the sales curve or needing to reduce the price to meet it. If they are satisfied and want to just revamp while having more profit they'll double the SSD size, if they aren't then they cut the price while keeping the SSD size. But I have no doubt at one point before the end of the gen we will have the Series S or equivalent with a 1Tb SSD and Series X with 2Tb.