All in the title, really?
Could storage be a themed peripheral IN the box by late gen? Might Seagate sell drives with games on them?
Could storage be a themed peripheral IN the box by late gen? Might Seagate sell drives with games on them?
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Will Xbox Series X/S come with expandable SSD drives as a bundle? Will they come WITH the games ON the SSD? Like graphics cards that come with games?
- Thread starter Butt-shot Katana
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Probably not. Writing the data to the SSD would be an extra step in manufacturing, it'd require some software coding to ensure that the game was added to the correct user account, and any game sold with an SSD would probably be patched by the time the storage was bought, potentially requiring the whole thing to be redownloaded anyway, making its inclusion wasted effort.
If storage comes with any games, they'll probably just be codes.
If storage comes with any games, they'll probably just be codes.
Why would they add extra drives instead of just updating the SKU with a bigger internal one?
I could possibly see it if Microsoft put out like a 2 or 4TB SSD expansion. But probably just a Game Pass code.
That said, I think those expansions would be so expensive that they wouldn't really be marketing them for anyone but the most hardcore who would buy them anyway.
That said, I think those expansions would be so expensive that they wouldn't really be marketing them for anyone but the most hardcore who would buy them anyway.
Ding and ding. Agreed, I don't see why either of these things would happen.
I am a little confused by the title because games don't typically come "on" graphics cards and I don't think I've ever seen a graphics card come with an SSD. It's usually just a download code that gets emailed to you or is in the box. So I assume it might be like that, as is currently the case with most bundled games.
