Based microsoft bringing back the soul of memory cards

Based microsoft bringing back the soul of memory cards
arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/03/xbox-series-x-uses-proprietary-nvme-cards-for-storage-expansion/?amp=1

I just hope they're not retardedly expensive

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good

>proprietary
>cheap
choose one.

>soul
>memory cards
>I just hope they're not retardedly expensive
sorry user you are retarded

xsoys must be scared if they are leaking everything before sony

>memory cards
Except these aren't for saved games but entire games and their save files. It's basically an external SSD. Expect prices to be 20% higher compared to regular PCIe SSDs.

I hope it's just a housing to properly align a normal m.2 drive

Yes, because this was such a great idea for the Vita.

>Xbros are actually making excuses for being milked like good little cultists

Sony should go all out and include a 4TB SSD to counter this jewish bullshit.

>proprietary memory cards
>not expensive

CHOOSE NONE

They’re going to be like $250

people have no problems spending 90 bucks on joycons every couple months, why the fuck would they care about a 70 dollar one time expansion memory card.

>Xbro projecting on Nintendo
kek

>proprietary
it's to prevent retards from using the cheapest chinkshit ssd they can find.

For what I care they can bring back floppy disks. Enjoy another decade of inferior... everything really.

microsoft always figures out quick ways to murder their consoles before they release

Does it really glow green like that when you plug it in?

their next step is to announce it will cost FIVE HUNDRED NINETY NINE US DOLLARS

proprietary storage is the opposite of soul retard

Honestly I'd love to hear a better solution than this from everyone complaining. There doesn't exist a non-proprietary external interface with the specs required for expanding the storage without losing performance.

>20% higher
try 50%

other than load times fast storage is a meme. once the level is loaded it reads from the hdd very little. this is an expensive solution to a problem that doesn't actually exist
a regular old hdd would be perfectly fine

Just play on 360 then you dumb gamer luddite.

Ethernet? USB 3.1?

>implying he isn't a sonyfag

force game devs to actually optimize their filesizes instead of loading it with uncompressed bullshit

the only potential advantages of a console are loading an entire game quickly from an uninstalled state, and lower overall cost compared to PC

if you force people to buy loads of external garbage just to install more games, both of which negate any benefit, you've failed the purpose of a console. this shitbox probably has an online sub fee as well

>$70 for 1TB+ of high end proprietary SSD
lol no

You can use USB drives if you want, and who knows, maybe it will work about as well as the internal memory in many or most games. Microsoft just can't and won't guarantee that your experience won't be affected. This is probably a good option for price conscious gamers who don't mind watching some youtube reviews of USB SSDs and who aren't bothered by consciously sorting what games go where on their Xbox. This is an option if you want to expand the internal storage with the exact same performance so you know it will work, you don't have to think about it and if it doesn't it's a MS problem and not a (You) problem. That has value to people, so being able to provide that comfort to those people has value to MS.

They are Microsoft™ Xbox™ Series X™ 1TB SSDs, of course they are gonna be retardedly expensive

Thunderbolt 3

Yeah man if these lazy ass devs just knew how to ComPreSs and OptiMizE games could still come on a single 1.44 MB floppy discs! It's all a scam.

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Take your meds Barry

>Barryspammer seething
You love to see it. Shill harder.

>you have to replace your controllers every 2 months
I hope your kind goes extinct

Do people not realise this doesn’t just act as extra storage according to DF

What else is it gonna do? Is this gonna be some POWER OF DA CLOWD bullshit where they start claiming it has esoteric supernatural properties that will magically make games better?

It’s ok if you need it to be external but I would have preferred internal, they could have made it as simple as replacing an M.2 SSD in a laptop, they also could have let you install more than one.
I think they went this way to make sure people get NVME instead of SATA because they’re both interchangeable but SATA is slower.

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>all these gimmicks and no games

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what is this thing, and how is it different than the external harddrive on my xbox one

Also the fact that even among NVME drives the read/write speed can vary a lot between manufacturers. This way allows MS to designate a baseline that developers can expect instead of accounting for a performance drop using random parts.

This is pretty much the best solution right now for long term upgradebility seeing as how NVME drives are still a relatively new market and we'll see 20 TB drives in a few years at this rate of adoption.

Phtographer here, look up XQD/CF express and cry. It won't be 70 mate.

judging by the already expensive Xbox branded Seagate hard drives, yes, they are going to be expensive. Not sure what you expect from the company that sold a wifi peripheral for the X360 for $100.

Their justification for making them a proprietary format isn't even cost effectiveness or speed. It's heat.

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>one time
>1tb
nigga the new cod is almost 200gb

Ill buy an extra 1tb card for my sex on release day, hope that doesnt make you too butthurt

It’s going to alleviate decrompression workload, essentially like expanding ram, should’ve been included in base build but I definitely see why they’re not

That is highly likely the actual price

You cant play anything stored on an external drive. The game needs to be transferred to the internal drive to play it.

>essentially like expanding ram
What? That's not how it works. Guessing by the vague term "alleviate decompression workload" it means it'll be used as temp storage for uncompressed assets so that they can be loaded directly in RAM. Though that means a big chunk of that 1TB is going to be reserved by the OS. And it still doesn't say how or when will assets be uncompressed, which does have to happen at some point.

>The form factor is cute, the 2.4GB/s of guaranteed throughput is impressive, but it's the software APIs and custom hardware built into the SoC that deliver what Microsoft believes to be a revolution - a new way of using storage to augment memory (an area where no platform holder will be able to deliver a more traditional generational leap). The idea, in basic terms at least, is pretty straightforward - the game package that sits on storage essentially becomes extended memory, allowing 100GB of game assets stored on the SSD to be instantly accessible by the developer. It's a system that Microsoft calls the Velocity Architecture and the SSD itself is just one part of the system.
Just a part of the explanation eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-inside-xbox-series-x-full-specs

what is this is this like a n64 expansion pak

In a way, but it’s still a SSD, it’s just using it in a way that hadn’t been before

>corona virus
>thousands of schools locked down
>millions of hormonal little shits
>not a single cheesy shitpost
You had one job you lazy wankers, I'll do it myself.
I'd like to compress her womb with my dick.

like intel optane

>what Microsoft believes to be a revolution
Yeah they said that same thing with the power of the cloud and how you'd have access to unlimited processing from remote servers and shit. We all saw how that ended.
>allowing 100GB of game assets stored on the SSD to be instantly accessible by the developer
Again, that's not how it works. Assets have to be loaded into RAM before they can be worked on by the CPU or GPU, that's a fundamental way of how programming works since every variable and constant directly references an address in RAM. And even if you could address it directly it's still much slower storage than RAM is. The truth is this is just a pagefile with a fancy schmancy name.

imean i'll chill either way, dont need to pay like $200 for a proprietary design :^)

>The truth is this is just a pagefile with a fancy schmancy name
Think of it more like a hybrid RAID setup

The internal drive included with the console has the same specs, doesn't it?

I would be fine with this if storing saves is all they did, but now that consoles are just budget desktops I'm less okay with the idea of memory cards

Not 100% sure although the removable one has a built in heat sink