Xbox Series X 1 TB Storage Just Too Small Says Ori Dev

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Moon Studios Game Director Thomas Mahler has been discussing both the Xbox Series X and PS5 in a recent discussion on Resetera, focusing on the differences between their two solid state drives.

As part of this, he noted that he felt the Xbox Series X could render games at 4K more regularly and/or at better framerates, while the PS5 might load games faster due its speedier SSD tech.

However, he felt the internal SSD sizes of both systems - 1TB on Xbox Series X and 825GB on PS5 - were "just too small" to accommodate modern day games with increasingly large file sizes:

Btw, one thing that'll suck for all of us is that 1TB is just too small nowadays, so prepare for housekeeping a lot more, at least until new console iterations appear with larger SSDs. The recent Call of Duty weighed in at like 170gb... So I doubt you'll be able to have more than 10-15 games or so simultaneously on your machine. Meh."


Fortunately, the Xbox Series X won't just be limited to 1TB. As you can see in the image above, Microsoft will be offering a 1TB Seagate Storage Expansion Card that matches the internal performance, allowing you to store more next-gen games. That said, we don't yet know how expensive this will be.

You'll also be able to store (but not play) next-gen games on an external USB hard drive, while all your backwards compatible Xbox One, Xbox 360 and original Xbox games will still work off a USB HDD as usual.



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RyanPosted:

It is way too small, CoD is almost at 200GB now... I would like more than 5 games to choose from before storage is full...

JoeIPosted:

The amount of storage warzone has taken up, if this is the future we need at least 2TB

DanielPosted:

2TB should come as standard for any console. Then if you want more you buy more but 2TB will last you a good while. These days with the size of most games these days 1TB just isn't going to cut it. We have to purchase our brand new console then think ah i now have to go out and buy an External Hard Drive, that's just a huge no for me. Make it 2TB.

grizzlydeanPosted:

If there doing these plug in memory cards it wont be an issue, depending on price il get a few for games

TimeSplittersPosted:

Why does everyone keep forgetting that XSX AI compresses file size? 1 TB should be more than enough if it's as good as advertised (which it should be)

40Posted:

ifconfig 2TB minimum will be the future. Will also include a much heftier price.


It should be 2TB period. It's dumb how you have to buy more storage to hold games on your system

ifconfigPosted:

2TB minimum will be the future. Will also include a much heftier price.

ifconfigPosted:

Gary The developer has a point. I think everyone would agree that 1tb is too small these days. Most AAA titles these days are nearing 100GB.


Some are even more that that. I remember seeing Call of Duty on my console being 120GB+ with all updates installed. That's more than 10% of capacity.

GaryPosted:

The developer has a point. I think everyone would agree that 1tb is too small these days. Most AAA titles these days are nearing 100GB.


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