Topic: Xbox Storage Expansion Card: Local Save Data Question

Hey! I have a Series X and a Series S. I am wondering, can someone who has two Xbox consoles and a Storage Expansion Card confirm for me: are local game saves stored on the Expansion card if the game is stored on it?

Scenario: if I have both consoles offline (nullify cloud saves) and then say I’ve been playing a game, say Ori, on my Series X, save the game, turn off the system and pull out the card and then go in the other room and put it into my Series S, will my new save data from playing on my Series X be on the Series S? I miss the old days of having a memory card and all that jazz and it just occurred to me today that maybe the expansion card can function like a memory card as long as the game is on it too. If so I’ll pick one up while it is on sale this week. If anyone can confirm, I’d appreciate it!

Edit: as far as I am aware, this will not work with external usb storage drives, say for Xbox One games you can play on the Series consoles. But I am wondering if it is different with the Storage Expansion Cards.

@QuoVadis I don't think it quite works like that. The expansion cards are for like SSD cards more then memory cards and I believe that they are tied to the system your on. They dont save individual game files rather the whole game install. Putting it in a other probably will reformat it.

However that's really not necessary if you have your accountt on both systems you can access the cloud and get your saves that way. I know with Forza Horizon 3 that's how it works as I was able to play my game on both machines and pick up where I left off no matter which machine I use.

So, the Expansion Cards aren't actually tied to the system you're on (you can put the same one into as many Xbox consoles as you want and retrieve all your files), but save data isn't stored on them.

These days, Xbox doesn't allow you to access locally stored saves with ease - everything is built around the cloud. There's no way of extracting a locally saved file whatsoever as far as I'm aware.