Their SSD prices dropped significantly this past year when they allowed another company to start making them. But it’s still nowhere near as cheap as PS5’s SSD expansion which isn’t proprietary at all.
Comment on Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002'
Aielman15@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Let’s add this to the list of shitty anti-consumer choices that big tech corporations have implemented this year.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why9@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t think it’s as black and white as that. Not to say that Microsoft isn’t dubious at times, but it seems they’re trying to weed out dodgy devices here.
Give companies free reign to create third party devices and they’ll create things that can be considered borderline cheat-y, or create things that are so bad that they affect people’s experience of Xbox consoles.
All this error code seems to be doing is requiring third party hardware to go through proper checks to verify hardware.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 8 months ago
All this error code seems to be doing is requiring third party hardware to go through proper checks to verify hardware.
Translated: They want third parties to pay for the “Xbox seal of approval”.
Why9@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I mean I get it, it sucks for third party developers to pay a fee to develop for Xbox
But if you look at the quality of third party hardware available on PlayStation, Apple etc, it’s usually at a much higher quality and that gives people a perception that the hardware is better overall, even though Xbox series X and the PS5 are direct competitors.
If Xbox controllers cost $70 and crappy Chinese knockoffs are retailing for $20 and have no quality control, have cheat-y turbo buttons and break easily, they’re losing money that would have done to official controllers and also losing their brand image.
They’re not outright saying that third party devices are no longer allowed, but it does seem they want to manage the quality a little more
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re looking at this from a “what is good for microsoft” position. You won’t find much purchase for that thought process here. People care more about what is good for consumers and real people over companies.
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I threw a 1TB aftermarket SSD in my XBox One S and there was absolutely no attempt to stop me.
The loading speed in Fortnite tripled.
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wait, you can’t buy regular drives anymore? That’s actually kind of fucked
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You can, but you can’t play Series games on it. Only previous generation games. Same as on PS5.
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
on PS5 you can buy any brand SSD drive and it will work. only microsoft locks the system to use authorized hardware
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sorry, I tool “regular” to mean external drives, not non-proprietary internal drives. Last gen you could use an external HDD to expand your storage without any issues. This gen you can still do it, but its use is limited.