Xbox Series X and S memory cards may be powerful new technology, but look as if they will fall short in the same ways as their chunky predecessors.
Computing giant Microsoft has had a long history of strange proprietary peripherals dating back to the original Xbox. From expansion packs to strangely shaped swappable hard drives, every Xbox system has had some form of storage "solution." With the launch of Xbox Series X, Microsoft looks to be doing it again with a custom Seagate NVME designed to work specifically with the new console.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Exactly, they were charging 4x the amount of the disk inside 360 consoles just because they had a proprietary port.
A $30 disk wrapped up and sold for $120-$150.
Except when it comes to storage, you can use other drives, but if you fully want to take advantage of the series X, that's when you have to consider the be storage. But even then, you can offload all the games for storage purpose, and transfer when needed. So not necessarily the same.
anyone who says this is too expensive you can probably put on your block list and you'll not be missing anything
You can use an external to store your games, so no there is no storage problem. You just have to transfer them to and from the external drive to the console to actually run them.
I would not be caught dead paying those prices for 1TB of extra storage, but MS has prevented a potential problem that we will be seeing with the PS5. The average joe is not going to be paying attention to drive speeds and what not when it comes to required specs ro run games properly. Not all SSDs are created equal, and those less technically inclined could be seeing performance issues and problems when they try their less than compatible storage expansions. To have something that works right with the PS5, you will be spending quite a bit as well.
In any case, prices will drop overtime. And seeing how you can at least store and back up your digital games on any external HDD, storage itself is not an issue as long as you are ok with installing and uninstalling your games as needed (something most people do anyway).
I remember when I got my Xbox 360 slim and the 5gb model and my bud told me how you don’t even need their branded disk. He told me without the chassis that they would still take a standard 2.5mm hdd. Saved me a whole lot of money, I wouldn’t be surprised if ultimately they take any NVMe and they are just banking on people being naive.