A smaller Xbox Storage Expansion Card may have leaked

(Pocket-lint) - After reports successful mid-September that determination mightiness beryllium a smaller and cheaper Xbox Storage Expansion Card coming down the pike, caller reports are doubling down connected that likelihood.

• Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X/S review: So tiny but ohio truthful mighty

The lone authoritative paper from Seagate disposable close present is simply a 1TB enactment that's beauteous costly but evidently gives you a immense chunk of retention to play with. A 512GB size enactment would evidently trim some the card's outgo and capacity.

That's what is being heavy rumoured, and present retailers successful France look to person either received oregon prepared selling materials confirming that caller card's beingness - arsenic discovered by Windows Central.

The adverts don't see a motorboat day for the card, oregon so a price, but they bash accidental it's "coming soon", truthful each this fume points toward a reasonably imminent motorboat by Xbox and Seagate.

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It looks similar it won't conscionable beryllium a card, though - Seagate whitethorn besides beryllium cooking up an eternal, USB-powered SSD that tin bash each the aforesaid enactment without requiring the aforesaid impressively tiny size, and that won't slot into the backmost of the console rather arsenic easily. Still, if it works good it'll beryllium much affordable and apt garner plentifulness of fans.

This volition each assistance Xbox drawback backmost up to Sony, fixed the PlayStation 5 present has the quality to enactment with a wide scope of additional interior SSDs.

Writing by Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 4 October 2021.