Xbox 1TB Expansion Card Drops To Below $100 In Excellent New Deal

i still wont buy it. This had to be microsoft's worst feature of the X|S and it makes me sad lol

This was a stupid idea.
Should have let people have easy access to add a regular NVMe drive.

But at least $99, is much better value.
It should stay at that price point.

This was a reasonable idea at the time — it was available at launch, portable/hotswappable, and matched NVMe prices. An access port to add NVMe to Series consoles would have been a good failsafe, even with the added cost.

I bought one in December 2020 for $187 total. The utility over time made it worth it. A few months ago, I bought the 2TB version for about the same price. I retained the original 1TB card for the time being.

@theduckofdeath Bro why do they do that? They just want to make more money dude. They used to charge $500 to $700 for an Xbox Series X, and then they still wanted you to pay for an Expansion Card AND Wireless Controller. I might as well get a PS5 for that cost (no disrespect to PlayStation). I always love Xbox but sometimes they really try to milk the money. I totally agree.

@Steel76 At least they lowered the price though...

Still $20-$30 too much for the size of storage and speed.

@UserTK-421 They charged the SAME as Sony did for their PS5 hardware but Sony had a smaller internal SSD to begin with. Yes you can buy a SSD to expand the Storage but if you 'priced' it at the time, 1TB was more expensive and you probably needed one with a Heatsink on PS5 - if you didn't and it damaged the PS5, you had no warranty protection - but you could get 'cheaper' SSD's on AliExpress that would 'work'.

Both Systems also came with a Wireless Controller too so for the SAME Price as a Series X with 1TB SSD as Standard with a Wireless Controller, you could buy a PS5 with 825GB (less storage) and a Wireless Controller.

Also with the Expansion cards, you don't need to power down to remove or swap cards. That means you can easily swap a card in seconds and be playing the games stored on it - much like swapping a Cartridge on an N64 if the games were bought digitally so you don't need to swap 'discs' either. You could have one card with all the Forza games, another with Halo or FPS games and just swap them like you would a Cartridge.

With Sony, you have to unplug and dismantle aspects and its not as easy or as quick as Xbox. You wouldn't want to be swapping those. Therefore with Xbox, you have unlimited Storage too - so if you wanted 20TB's for ALL your games, you can and at worst, its no different to swapping a Cartridge to play different games.

You can pay more for faster Storage on PS5 for example, but it doesn't make a difference as the system can't use that extra speed. And if you buy 'branded' SSD's with built in Heatsink as 'recommended', chances are it will cost little different to the Expansion card 'per' TB but perhaps lacks some of the versatility and utility of the cards...

Whilst they may each have Advantages/Disadvantages, that also means that neither is a 'clear' winner. I much prefer the Xbox solution - I can buy additional cards as and when I want/need, can expand my storage far more than with Sony and its no hassle to swap them.