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Zippy6 said:
Yep... Proprietary storage always causes obscene prices. It was a mistake with the Vita and it's a mistake with the Xbox Series.
Quick look on Amazon both of these items are dispatched and sold by Amazon themselves, less than half the price to get 1tb of storage for PS5 than Series X. That Samsung SSD is 7000MB/s as well compared to the Xbox's 2400MB/s speed. Xbox should have gone with an internal 2280 SSD, the external memory slot being slightly more convenient isn't nearly worth the high cost. Can only hope that the next xbox revision swaps to a standard SSD. |
It's especially disappointing because Jason Ronald, the lead system architect for Xbox Series S and X, told us in an interview more than 2 years ago that Xbox expansion cards were open tech, that SSD manufacturers other than Seagate could make them in the future, and that Seagate was only an initial partner for launch. Some competition would at least drive the price down some even though it is proprietary tech, but we have yet to see an Xbox expansion card from a manufacturer other than Seagate, no Samsung, Sabrent, Adata, Western Digital, Crucial, SK Hynix, Kingston, Silicon Power, Patriot, Acer, PNY, Inland, Fanxiang, etc. And some of those manufacturers are known for being substantially cheaper than Seagate, for instance you can get a Fanxiang 1 TB SSD with 3500/3000 MB/S read/write speeds for $54 right now, whereas the cheapest Seagate SSD at a similar speed range is $90. So many SSD manufacturers out there, and we are stuck with a monopoly by Seagate because Xbox seemingly decided to take some offer by Seagate to be the exclusive manufacturer of the cards.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 21 February 2023
