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Banjo-

@Grumblevolcano You can store Series games on an external HDD, confirmed by Microsoft. You only need to copy them to the internal SSD when you want to play them.

Major Nelson wrote:

You can always take your Xbox One games and play them directly off your external hard drive when connected to Xbox Series X. Now for Xbox Series X games, you can certainly store them on your external hard drive, but when you're ready to play them, you're going to want to move them to the internal SSD or the Seagate expansion drive.

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Tasuki

Now I am confused why can't I just use an external hard drive. Makes no sense.

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redd214

@Tasuki from what I can gather an external drive won't read fast enough to load next gen games. Store them on the external and move them to the internal when you want to play them. Seems pretty simple much like using a computer with a regular HDD and an SSD, I'm sure the process is streamlined and straightforward

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Tasuki

Hmmm I guess they will have guides when the Series X comes out to explain it better and how to go about it.

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Eel

Perhaps eventually the process could be streamlined, where games in the hard drive are moved to the internal memory when you try to play them, and then automatically archived after some inactivity time or to make space.

Kinda like what the Wii did with the games on the sd card, but keeping the game for a bit longer after playing since these are obviously gonna be considerably heavier. (The Wii would uninstall them immediately).

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Banjo-

That makes sense, you launch the game and you are asked if you want to move it to the SDD and launch the game. If you don't have enough space, you are asked to move a game to the external HDD.

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Dezzy

Yeah which consoles allow expansions to the SSD? Didn't the PS5 have something like that?

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Banjo-

@Dezzy PS5 is compatible with certain SSDs but they don't have an official expansion solution.

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Grumblevolcano

More big Xbox news, EA Play is a part of Game Pass now and Series X is £449/$499 launching on November 10th.

Preorders start September 22nd.

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Banjo-

Xbox All Access price, including a console and 24 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and EA Play:

Xbox Series S will be available starting from $24.99 a month for 24 months and Xbox Series X will be available starting from $34.99 a month for 24 months.

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Banjo-

How much do you think that PS5 and PS 5AD will cost? Do you think that Sony undercut Series X with PS 5AD? It would be a pity if the do that at the last minute.

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Grumblevolcano

The prediction I gave on Pure Xbox is:

PS5 digital = £349/€399/$399, PS5 physical = £449/€499/$499

or

PS5 digital = £299/€349/$349, PS5 physical = £399/€449/$449

If Microsoft waited longer (which I think would've happened if the leak didn't occur), I definitely think the 1st option would've happened but I could see the 2nd option happen simply because the Xbox prices are officially announced.

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Banjo-

I think that $€500/£450 for PS5 and $€400/£350 for PS5 All-Digital so PS5 All-Digital would be cheaper than Series X. Lower than that like you @Grumblevolcano suggest? It would be a problem for Series X to be undercut like that at the last minute.

If I'm right with my pricing prediction, Series S will sell like hot cakes. It's also better than I expected, I knew it was going to be like Series X but rendering at 1080/1440p with a cheaper GPU and less RAM but I didn't expect it to upscale to 4K so even for people with 4K TVs, Series S is good value.

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Dezzy

Surely Sony will make the PS5 a bit cheaper than the Series X now. It's just good sense. If it was originally intended to be $500, just make it $475 and take the short term hit for the sake of more long term sales.

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Banjo-

@Dezzy I hope that Microsoft reacts and drop the price if Sony undercuts Series X now.

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BruceCM

Who'd be comparing the price of Series X, with a disc-drive, to the all digital version of PS5? Anyway, Sony will have to announce their prices soon now, so we'll see ....

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@BlueOcean

Lol that could get incredible silly very quickly. I think they pretty much have to stick with the price once its announced, at least for a while. They can reduce it after 3 months or something if they really think its necessary to compete.

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