News Best Buy Lists More Affordable Xbox Storage Expansion Cards From WD

[Admin]

BestBuy lists Western Digital's Xbox Series X|S external storage expansion cards, then removes listing.

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[gggplaya]

Still literally double the price of PS5 SSD for $90: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09RMHC8L8

Or you can buy the PS5 2TB drive for $160: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09RN23L75

In case you're wondering, Nextorage was an SSD company started by Sony, then bought out by Phison who makes the memory controller chips for most of these SSD's anyways.

 

[cknobman]

Still not buying that overpriced crap.
Stop trying to charge double for your "proprietary" format which is no better than what you could get from industry standard implementations.

Sure a small premium for the form factor and ease of use but almost DOUBLE? Stick it.

 

[kal326]

This is one of the few things that I have always disliked about Xbox consoles. As long as there has been expandable proper drive storage there has been proprietary storage.
A Xbox is basically just a stripped down appliance PC and very similar hardware wise to a PS5. Sony couldn’t care less about your storage device, even if it doesn’t meet their hardware requirements you can still use it.
Meanwhile MS is selling half speed not quite industry spec drives for outrageous mark ups. Even back when they were SATA hard drives.
Sure you’ve always been able to “make one work” but the fact that it’s so easy to do that is biggest reason for why you shouldn’t have to. Just drop an industry standard drive in and go about your life.