Talking Point: Xbox Series X|S Owners, How's Your Storage Looking In 2025?

Every year here at Pure Xbox, we poll the community about how well you've been managing your Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S storage, and so we're doing the same again for 2025 - in a year where games are getting bigger than ever!

Looking back over the past couple of years, it comes as no surprise that free space appears to have been getting harder to come by. In 2023, for example, 40% of Pure Xbox voters told us that their Xbox Series X no longer had any free space on the internal drive, and the same went for 51% of Series S owners. Those figures increased to 45% and 58% in 2024, indicating that as time has gone on, it's gotten harder to manage our Xbox storage.

The 2024 version of the article was produced in March last year, and as the months rolled on, we started to see some massive games landing on Xbox. In fact, if you think about just the end of last year, the likes of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Stalker 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 were enough to cause a lot of problems for storage space!

Another thing that we always do in these articles is question whether you're using any form of external storage, whether that's in the form of an official Expansion Card or perhaps something cheaper like an external hard drive.

To be honest though, the figures don't seem to change much from year-to-year on this. Around 25-30% of Pure Xbox voters who own an Xbox Series X had bought an Expansion Card by March of last year, and the same goes for Xbox Series S owners. Something that also remains constant is that Xbox owners believe Expansion Cards are too expensive, with 34% of Series X owners and 41% of Series S owners telling us that in last year's poll.

It'll be interesting to see if anything's changed as we go into 2025, perhaps in terms of how many people have decided to pick up some external storage, as well how difficult it's become to stay under that 100% mark. Maybe you've found yourself deleting a lot more games than you used to, simply because there's no other easy alternative?

Whatever the case may be, we're going to throw the exact same polls down below, and we're very keen to see what the results will be. If you have anything else you want to tell us, please elaborate down in the comments section below!

Xbox Series X Owners, How Full Is Your Internal Storage? (595 votes)

  1. 0-10%  0.5%
  2. 11-20%%
  3. 21-30%%
  4. 31-40%%
  5. 41-50%%
  6. 51-60%%
  7. 61-70%%
  8. 71-80%%
  9. 81-90%%
  10. 91-100%%

Xbox Series S Owners, How Full Is Your Internal Storage? (230 votes)

  1. 0-10%%
  2. 11-20%  0.4%
  3. 21-30%%
  4. 31-40%%
  5. 41-50%%
  6. 51-60%%
  7. 61-70%%
  8. 71-80%%
  9. 81-90%%
  10. 91-100%%

Xbox Series X Owners, Do You Use Any External Storage? (686 votes)

  1. Yes, I bought a 2TB Expansion Card%
  2. Yes, I bought a 1TB Expansion Card%
  3. Yes, I bought a 512GB Expansion Card%
  4. Yes, I bought an external HDD/SDD%
  5. The Expansion Cards are too expensive right now%
  6. No, I don't think I really need it%

Xbox Series S Owners, Do You Use Any External Storage? (253 votes)

  1. Yes, I bought a 2TB Expansion Card%
  2. Yes, I bought a 1TB Expansion Card%
  3. Yes, I bought a 512GB Expansion Card%
  4. Yes, I bought an external HDD/SDD%
  5. The Expansion Cards are too expensive right now%
  6. No, I don't think I really need it%

Xbox fans, how's your Series X and/or Series S storage looking in 2025? Come and tell us!