That’s the lowest price we’ve seen yet on any 2TB card.

NGL, I’ve been waiting for this. Yeah, yeah, proprietary expansion, too expensive, but on the Xbox, you won’t (currently) do better.

  • Mikelius
    3•7 hours ago

    Weird, I have a regular old 2TB (or maybe it was 1?) western digital plugged into the USB on the back of my series x and it works fine, not sure I understand the need to spend a bunch on something like this. Edit: and before responding about speed… I haven’t noticed much, if any, difference in game performance from installing on the drive or external outside of the initial game loading (startup) time, so not sure if that’s the only benefit to using the expansion slot.

    • @jordanlundOP
      2•7 hours ago

      USB drives are good for storage only, you can’t actually play the games from there. You have to move them to the SSD to play them.

  • circuitfarmer
    17•19 hours ago

    The fact that consoles still get away with this inflated proprietary crap is shocking

      • circuitfarmer
        5•17 hours ago

        Well, they will. Two things drive the trend, in my view:

        1. Lack of informed opinions. If you don’t know that other options exist, you’ll buy whatever because you think it is the baseline.

        2. Convenience. This one is a killer. People regularly give up a lot – even rights – in the name of convenience.

        Between those two factors, it’s a hard sell for the average consumer to not support this kind of corpo garbage. A nihilistic view, maybe, but I think it’s an accurate one.

        In a similar vein, it’s pretty easy to show someone that consoles have these needlessly expensive proprietary links, plus games which are very expensive for the same reason. But it is very hard to convince someone that the cool thing they saw on TV isn’t, in fact, “cool” because of the aforementioned reasons. And ultimately, people like having cool things, even if that coolness is subjective.

        Historically, it’s been a push-pull between groups, but everyone has had a different future. Now that things are being consolidated wholesale – e.g. physical media going out the window because so many are happy to stream and never own anything – it is more necessary than ever to call out #1 and #2, since the market itself is changing for the worse.