Xbox Series S hard drive size is to keep price low, confirms Microsoft

512GB is the balance between size and cost

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The 512GB Xbox Series S hard drive is to keep costs low, confirms 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft. 

Speaking in the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:leaked Xbox press briefing, head of platform engineering and hardware, Liz Hamren, confirms that the 512GB limit is to keep the price of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Series S console low - $299 / £249 speci♛fically. 

"When we move to SSD technology we get much, much higher performance, but of course that performance comes at a higher cost. Of course, more storage is always bette𒁏r, so we were trying to balance storage drive size as well as cost and we landed on 512[GB]," explains Hamren. 

"The Series S also supports the Seagate expansion card, and you can always connect your USB 3.1 drive for additional storage. And we've been working on a number of software features to help you more seaml🐬essly manage your game library between the cloud and your console."

Now note the USB 3.1 reference in there. The current Xbox One X and Xbox One S consoles are compatible with USB 3.0 external hard drives. Does that mean there's a potential for them not to work with the Xbox Series S and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Series X?

The Seagate expansion card Hamren talks about is rumoured to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:start at $220 for a 1TB card, which would quickly push the price of the Xbox Seꩲries S plus a card to the price of the Xbox Series X.

We'll have to wait for the official pricing for the Seagate expansion to make a decisওion though of course, but it's interesting how much of a difference moving to the faster SSD storage makes to the price.

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