Xbox Games Store (Previously Xbox Live Marketplace) is a digital distribution platform used by Microsoft Xbox 360 Xbox 360 video consoles. The service allows users to download or buy video games (including Xbox Live Arcade games and full titles of Xbox One and Xbox 360), accessories for existing games, demos and other varied content, such as avatars and dashboard themes. The service also offered previously sections to download video content, such as movies and television episodes; At the end of 2012, this functionality was replaced by Xbox Music and Xbox Video (now known as Groove Music and Movies and TV, respectively). By the end of 2017, Xbox Store was replaced at Xbox One by Microsoft Store, such as standard digital showcase for all Windows 10 devices.

Microsoft made a vibrant as well as rather controversial choice when it decided to rely upon proprietary storage expansion cards as the single methods for expanding Xbox Series X|S new-gen game storage. While the single alternative to this point for adding more space that can be made use of for playing Series X|S games has been the 1TB storage space expansion card, Seagate has actually introduced strategies to present two options in the coming months, including 512GB as well as 2TB options.

These cards will function identically to the existing 1TB ones, because you merely connect it into the port on the rear of the console to use it– there s no involved installment procedure, as with PS5 s M. 2 SSDs. What modifications, certainly, are the rates: Whereas the 1TB card offers retails for $220 USD (and also is sometimes discounted to the $190 range) the 512GB will cost $140 and the 2TB will market for a whopping $400. NVMe storage space is never inexpensive, but these do put a premium on what you would certainly anticipate to pay if you were simply browsing for a COMPUTER SSD in comparable dimensions.

The 512GB expansion card will release in mid-November, as well as preorders are online now at Walmart in the US, though they ve offered out for the time being. The 2TB card will certainly launch in very early December, with preorders established to open at some point in November.

There s no word on whether Seagate has strategies for any type of various other capacities, neither do we understand if Microsoft will permit any kind of various other firms to produce growth cards in the future. It deserves birthing in mind that both Series X and Series S consoles have just a solitary development slot, suggesting that you can t utilize greater than one card each time, so you should be positive in the dimension you acquire prior to devoting to one. (You can, nevertheless, swap between cards if you run out of room.) As always, video games can be relocated to an external drive connected using USB, however just backwards suitable games can be played from those; any kind of native Collection X|S video games need to be transferred to interior storage space or an expansion card in order to play, due to the requirement for their greater rates.

As noted above, these expansion cards do feature the advantage of being incredibly easy to make use of, although whether that deserves the compromise compared to Sony s approach with PS5 refers much discussion.