NPD August 2016 Sales Results, Results Ranked by Revenue (Hardware Now, Software Later)

[RobertR1]

I do feel the Xbox S is about $50 overpriced.

I'm sure they have priced it at such now so they can drop it by $50 during the holidays and use it to show optics around getting a good deal. Which at that point it would be.

 

[mpg1]

I do feel the Xbox S is about $50 overpriced.

I'm sure they have priced it at such now so they can drop it by $50 during the holidays and use it to show optics around getting a good deal. Which at that point it would be.

pretty much how the xbox one pricing has been working over the past few years...

 

[MrFox]

True, it is slightly more expensive to add an SSD as you need to spend 15-30 USD extra for an external drive case.

Regards,
SB

The context was about having multiple skus with more internal memory, as an upsell trick, since they pay much less for these drives than the retail difference. You can notice which company is doing this, and which one have a single sku at launch. Many don't want an external drive. Some travel. Some want to reuse their SSD when they upgrade. Some want a much faster boot/app disk. Some care about replacing a broken drive without having to send it for repair. Etc...

Nothing is perfect. The ideal would have been two hdd slots and also external support. Neither are offering both. The external support doesn't remove the need for multiple skus, while the replaceable internal drive does.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

The context was about having multiple skus with more internal memory, as an upsell trick, since they pay much less for these drives than the retail difference. You can notice which company is doing this, and which one have a single sku at launch. Many don't want an external drive. Some travel. Some want to reuse their SSD when they upgrade. Some want a much faster boot/app disk. Some care about replacing a broken drive without having to send it for repair. Etc...

Nothing is perfect. The ideal would have been two hdd slots and also external support. Neither are offering both. The external support doesn't remove the need for multiple skus, while the replaceable internal drive does.

Your replay to that original post which I replied to.

User replaceable HDD is the solution.

In which user expanded storage is a solution as well.

Meaning that whether it is Sony or Microsoft, there is an easy method to increase the storage available. You can upgrade storage on the Sony machine to anything a single 2.5" 9.5mm drive can hold. You can easily upgrade the storage on the Microsoft machine to any size HDD/SSD + the internal drive capacity.

I agree, the best would be to offer both. Sony offers a cleaner look with limited upgrade options. Microsoft offers far greater storage capacity and flexibility at the expense of having an additional device.

Regards,
SB

 

[BRiT]

Just to be fully inclusive, you can upgrade to 2 of any size HDD/SSD, as the XBox consoles support 2 external drives to play games from. This even includes the Xbox 360.

It's a nice feature for me since it provides a use for the old drives that have been upgraded to larger capacity in my NAS unit. Although I haven't filled the first 2TB drive on the X360 nor the 4TB drive on the XBox One.

On the Xbox Scorpio I plan on just moving my USB3 enclosure from the XO and have a ready to play software library.

 

[Rangers]

The context was about having multiple skus with more internal memory, as an upsell trick, since they pay much less for these drives than the retail difference. You can notice which company is doing this, and which one have a single sku at launch. Many don't want an external drive. Some travel. Some want to reuse their SSD when they upgrade. Some want a much faster boot/app disk. Some care about replacing a broken drive without having to send it for repair. Etc...

Nothing is perfect. The ideal would have been two hdd slots and also external support. Neither are offering both. The external support doesn't remove the need for multiple skus, while the replaceable internal drive does.

This is all for the 1%, maybe 10% anyway. 90% will just forever use whatever the hell came in the box. Maybe it's 80/20 or even 70/30, but lets say, the majority. It bugs me because 500GB is fairly crippling this gen.