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Is there a reason why the 2TB Xbox Series X Expansion card is £235 and not less than £140?
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Well how's that working out for them?
cash_longfellow
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Might be a question better directed to Microsoft support… 
Little Chicken
Banned
Xbox fans expect to pay premium prices for quality.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Console makers making money off people. No different than game prices, or PS Vita memory, gamepads at $90 CDN (same price as a game). or console makers getting charge for play online, when game makers can figure out how to maintain servers with free online for PC gamers (unless it's one of small number sub plan MMO games).
At least specialized peripherals can be seen as a take it or leave it option.
How can anyone explain why first party game prices can be more expensive on PSN or MS than Steam. Or why a third party game selling on all platforms, why Steam is still usually cheaper when they all take the same 30% cut? Only reason I can think of is console makers making extra $10 off console gamers, while PC storefronts dont.
At least specialized peripherals can be seen as a take it or leave it option.
How can anyone explain why first party game prices can be more expensive on PSN or MS than Steam. Or why a third party game selling on all platforms, why Steam is still usually cheaper when they all take the same 30% cut? Only reason I can think of is console makers making extra $10 off console gamers, while PC storefronts dont.
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Iced Arcade
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Proprietary bs
DaleinCalgary
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Because that's what Microsoft does with expansion memory.
UltimaKilo
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Just use an SSD if you don’t want to spend the money.
Topher
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You'll only be able to store games on an external SSD. Can't play games from it unless is a Xbox One or BC game.
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Brigandier
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Wrong thread derp.
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Dorfdad
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Because they don’t want to be left out of the or nightmares Sonys winning at this time! Series x with 2 tv is now same price as ps5 pro!
Honestly the reason is that Microsoft got a great deal on the cost of the hardware and gets a good margin in the drive!
Zero reasons all console don’t allow us to replace drives at our choice.
Hoddi
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Apparently because limiting disk space makes people buy more games.
It's the perfect example of MS not understanding the market. They make a few bucks in royalties on each drive but nobody wants them because they're so overpriced. Meanwhile, you can get a cheapo 2TB Kingston NV2 for $120 that works perfectly well on PS5.
Same goes for their idiotic wireless headphone policy for that matter. A $30 dongle allowed me to get AptX audio from my PS5 while the $200 headphones I bought for my Xbox are simply trash.
It's the perfect example of MS not understanding the market. They make a few bucks in royalties on each drive but nobody wants them because they're so overpriced. Meanwhile, you can get a cheapo 2TB Kingston NV2 for $120 that works perfectly well on PS5.
Same goes for their idiotic wireless headphone policy for that matter. A $30 dongle allowed me to get AptX audio from my PS5 while the $200 headphones I bought for my Xbox are simply trash.
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SweetTooth
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Sony was criticized alot at the reveal of PS5 for using standard slot SSD. In the end their approach was way better than Xbox and more consumer friendly.
Bojji
Member
Yep, pcie4 drives are cheap.
Cakeboxer
Gold Member
What gives you that idea? The 2Tb expansion card is 3 years on the market so it's bout damn time for a thread.Is this another thread to justify Ps5 pro prices?
ShaiKhulud1989
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Because it’s a custom low volume product based on the already quite expensive CF Express Type B tech.
It was designed to be expensive.
It was designed to be expensive.
Same a the PSVita memory card , proprietary format.
Is this another thread to justify Ps5 pro prices?
Cyberpunkd
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DenchDeckard
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Hardware wise, this is the only shit decision xbox made with the series x.
I get that they planned for people to be able to go around to a fruends house etc with the expansion card, but covid hit and no one does that anyway.
Now there's not enough boxes out there for people to need to do it at all.
It's great if you have multiple xboxs in your house but it's not worth the premium.
Poor decision.
I get that they planned for people to be able to go around to a fruends house etc with the expansion card, but covid hit and no one does that anyway.
Now there's not enough boxes out there for people to need to do it at all.
It's great if you have multiple xboxs in your house but it's not worth the premium.
Poor decision.
Mownoc
Member
Yeah it's terrible. Should have just had an M2 Port.
It cost me £65 to get 1TB of storage for my PS5 last year. You're looking at £120 for that on Xbox.
Heck they could release an official adapter for M2 2230 SSD's if they wanted, with the same form factor as their current expansion cards, but nope. Profit margins are through the roof.
It cost me £65 to get 1TB of storage for my PS5 last year. You're looking at £120 for that on Xbox.
Heck they could release an official adapter for M2 2230 SSD's if they wanted, with the same form factor as their current expansion cards, but nope. Profit margins are through the roof.
I'm nobody
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Because call of duty needs that space and the people who still play that game will bite
Lord Malachite
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Third party games tend to go on sale in shifts across platform. It's rare a game is discounted on all platforms at once. I don't often see the MSRP of a game different on one platform than another. It does happen, but it's not frequent.
Different publishers handle things differently. Until recently, Xbox put all of its first party games on Gamepass on Day One. Now they're starting to require the highest level for that privilege. PlayStation reduces the price of its first party titles as they age and eventually they make their way to the higher tiers of Plus. Nintendo almost never lowers the base price of its first party games except for occasional sales which rarely seem to drop below $40 when I look over them.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
One thing we have all learnt over the last few days.
Are you too poor to pay this premium price for a premium piece of custom tech?
Are you too poor to pay this premium price for a premium piece of custom tech?
The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
gamer tax
Mownoc
Member
There's nothing premium about Xbox SSD's.One thing we have all learnt over the last few days.
Are you too poor to pay this premium price for a premium piece of custom tech?
midnightAI
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Gen.Grievous
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NAND prices actually got a bit more expensive because the memory manufacturers scaled down production somewhat. September of last year I bought two SN850X 1TB drives for 70 euro each. Now they are like 20 euro more expensive.
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The Shepard
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Cloud saves would've solved that. This is a way to try and get more money out of you. Should've gone the PS5 route.
I'm honestly surprised. I don't know anyone that owns one.
Nah - MS released 2TB XSX to achieve that.Is this another thread to justify Ps5 pro prices?
Kvally
Member
I have found the Xbox solution to be more expensive but way more consumer friendly. I have two of them loaded with games and I take them to my cabin up north and to friends and family. They are plug and play, unlike the Sony solution where you are required to reformat/wipe the drive any time you swap it out. I don’t mind paying more for convenience.
Kvally
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There are a lot of thoseIs this another thread to justify Ps5 pro prices?
eerik9000
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Being twice as expensive and single purpose (usable only with Xbox consoles) is not consumer-friendly. Convenient, perhaps, but not consumer-friendly.
JackMcGunns
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Form factor, plug & play, proprietary connector. The upside is you can easily swap out SSD’s or bring to a friend’s house, sign in and voila, you have all your games.
Connxtion
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cloud saves? if they don’t own the game then cloud saves are a moot point.Seems you can move them to other consoles, (requires the database to be rebuilt) so yeah MS
Still the expansion cards on Xbox work like USB devices, plug and play. (Can be setup to be standalone or just as expanded space) Online is still required for validation but that takes 2 secs compared to having to redownload GBs of data or rebuild databases.
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My take on why they went the route they went is for 2 reasons.
1. Can charge more
2. Everyone gets the same performance
Would I have preferred being able to plonk a NVME drive in, yeah would have saved me £60 (a got my 1TB expansion card for £170) but I know what am doing, most won’t. So buying the wrong types or NVME or the wrong read/write speeds etc… would cause more issues than it’s worth for most.
And to be honest I didn’t actually need the extra space, I just wanted it as it was on sale. There is more than enough default space for most people.
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Kvally
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Convenient is consumer friendly. Reformatting and disassembling devices for use is not consumer friendly. But your opinion has been noted.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Corporate greed and anti-consumer decisions.
That's why.
That's why.
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