Major Nelson: External Game Storage "Coming Soon;" "Lots Of Work" Going On To Make XBO "Even Better"

GearNuke: "Microsoft's Major Nelson has confirmed that external game storage for Xbox One is "coming soon". He also talked about how there is a lot of good work going behind the scene for the Xbox One."

[christocolus]

Nice..I'm sure its coming next month. The team is doing a great job with the updates. They are a lot more robust and frequent than they were on xbx 360. Great job.

[DanielGearSolid]

Next month? If they cam get it done that quickly, I'll tip my imaginary hat

[Volkama]

I would think they are talking about it now because it is indeed coming next month. It has been planned since before the console came out though, so it's not that quick a turnaround.

The updates are good. I hope 3D blu-ray playback isn't far off.

[andrewsqual]

@truefan1 2TB with a Microsoft enclosure lol = €400.
And this is just referencing the almighty Xbox 360 when the 120gb hard drive launched at the end of 2007 for €180/$180. Since Xbone apparently does everything worse than 360 did, you just have to assume the worst.

[Docknoss]

It's amazing how much momentum the Xbox One is building.

[LexHazard79]

Im pretty sure theyve been working on this for awhile now!

[Ritsujun]

Don't give up, MS!!!!!!!!!!

[Kidmyst]

Hopefully they allow any HDD to be used and large sized ones too.

[christocolus]

I think they will, they are going to try their best to be as open as possible. That's what fans want.

[TheBrit]

There was an article a couple of weeks ago about this. I forget who it was at Microsoft that referenced it but they said most will be supported.

Due to slight differences in hard drives and their specs they can't all be supported but they will release a list of which hard drives you can buy from places like Amazon etc.

[AnimeFreak013]

I agree I'm so happy that they are working to update the system so users can able to use internal HDD as I already have used 200 GB with updates and games I have on system. I'm also freaking excited that Phil spencer is the head of Of MS now cause he luvs games and understands that gamers and games should come first then everything else. I can say now people get the X1 and it's worth every penny as the console keeps on getting better every month with updates and games coming out 4 it. Btw I also own a PS4 and while I'm enjoying it's exclusives like infamous SS KZSF resogon and many more I can't help but think sony isn't doing a good enough job updating and adding features to the console like MS with X1. Anyway can't wait 4 E3 I really think this E3 will be the best yet with games being announce and surprises that all 3 sony MS Nintendo will shows us this E3.

[Gamer1982]

They said external game storage has been coming before the console was released we knew this already.. Am I the only one though who thinks the delay is because they are trying to make it proprietary like the old hard drives? As they always try to lock out 3rd partys from the hardware side of things.

[LexHazard79]

You can use 3rd party external drives on Xbox 360 I dont know why that would change. They also offered their own aswell! I just hope they allow you up to 4tb externals.

[TheBrit]

There was an article a couple of weeks ago about this. I forget who it was at Microsoft that referenced it but they said most will be supported.

Due to slight differences in hard drives and their specs they can't all be supported but they will release a list of which hard drives you can buy from places like Amazon etc.

[Rocky5]

This gen they use NTFS partitions with no encryption (didn't need to since its not removable)

So the external drives will use NTFS, but with encryption so people can't just stick there HDD in there PC & start snooping about.

Last thing we need is save hacking on the Xbox one.

(I can dream that some games will allow modding. Minecraft especially as I want my redstone world ported over.)

[Joey_Leone]

I'll admit, they're doing a better job updating everything unlike Sony.

[dirkdady]

How quick gamers are to forgive Microsoft with one wink and a smile... We really are all sheep.

[ramiuk1]

great news and im a ps4 gamer.
if MS brough external HD and mkv support then it might make me get one

[josephayal]

xbox one is the best console

[candy_mafia]

@josephayal

I'm totally glad you're enjoying your Xbox One, and it's awesome MS are being so pro-active...

But Malokevi is disgraceful and should be totally ashamed of himself!

[MorePowerOfGreen]

Next gen is here 3:22 minutes in.

Just one application of cloud compute(PC demo, XB1 demo was earlier in the presser)

http://www.reddit.com/r/xbo...

[Shane Kim]

That is a lot of BS EliteNick. Xbots are always in every PS article.

[Blaze929]

Microsoft showing the world why they are one the best software companies. Can't wait

[andrewsqual]

By not actually showing anything, brilliant. ^_^
All you have is their promises to go on. I envy your ignorance.

[Trekster_Gamer]

In your obviously jaded opinion. I think no matter what they do you will find reason to troll and hate on them.

[Sheikh Yerbouti]

Like all of last gen...Microsoft usually waits for E3 and the holiday season to show its cards. Sony will have its hand entirely on the table come E3.

Stay tuned.

[kreate]

Good. Bring on the external storage. Better be a storage of my choosing. And not chosen for me.

[BillySpandex]

That was my issue as well, at least give me the option to choose the storage of MY choosing. Let me use my flashdrive or let me use my 2Tb external harddrive

[ezop]

your joking aren't you, it will be an external M$ branded HDD in different sizes of TB, there not going to miss out on making more money. I would also suspect the HDD format wont be NTFS like windows it's more like a new format something like NTFSXB1 which they wouldn't release to the public for security reasons.

[OpieWinston]

We get it you're blind and didn't own a 360.
Also "M$" What are you 12 years old? GTFO kid.

[andrewsqual]

I think the biggest thing that people don't realise is that this is probably the case. They need to make back up the millions they planned on making on the whole "you don't own the games you buy for the console" thing.
People with Xbones still accept Play n Charge kits and paying for basic online play on 360. Why wouldn't they attempt to get away with this again too?

[Deadpoolio]

And what the mental midgets probably don't understand is that not only will it probably be a MS branded HDD...You wont be able to play games from it, just storage...If they allow any HDD it will have to be formatted by the Xbox and will not be compatible with anything else after that. They aren't that stupid, a 5 year old with autism could manage to realize that would just lead to piracy

[Geoff900]

They have already stated that you will be able to use any standard HDD, although it will have to be compatible e.g. fast enough data transfer.

Oh and MS haven't stopped people from using any flash drive have they? they just have to be compatible with the Xbox 360.

[ezop]

@OpieWinston I do own 2x360 (original & slim) and I remember when you had to buy separate HDD if you filled it up 20, 60, 120 or 250 GB in the old model (probably before your time) even the slim had 2 HD's 250 or 320 GB. As for the M$ comment no I'm not 12 I am 40 (yep and still gaming).

@Geoff900 your right Penello said to a fan on Twitter. "The intention is to be open…" but you have to read the wording until its official "INTENTION" does not mean you can use your own HDD, as for flash drives on the 360 you can only use 32GB of storage no matter if you put in a 500GB flash drive, 1TB flash drive.

[LexHazard79]

@andrew,

Hows that DS4 treating you btw? Altho its very nice I hear it has crappy battery life!

Also why you so worried about how people spend their hard earned money(the ones that do grind for a living)! I rather rechargeable energizers(which last me 2 weeks or more depending on usage) than using Play and charge kit or integrated battery!

Another complaint about paying for XBL!
$5 a month! Lol....

[Sheikh Yerbouti]

@BackPain...

Everything Andrew said is true. Paying for online worked so well, Sony is doing it. Sony is also the King of Proprietary Media. Thank god they aren't with their console HDD, but I don't buy anything that takes a Memory Stick (i.e., Vita or PSP)

Neither of these companies deserve that much devotion. They just want your money anyway.

[bloodybutcher]

I must admit,that is great news for xb1 present and future owners. I am running out of space on my ps3 hdd, when i eventually get ps4 i would like to have as much saving space as possible. so ext. hdd for x is awesome news. i wonder if it'll let you save gamefiles on it, unlike ps3.

[No_Limit]

The new direction that the XB team has taken and continuing listening to their fans is great. Can't wait for the external HDD support.

[AnteCash]

Since you can't replace the hdd without canceling the warranty , External hdd is your only option.

[Geoff900]

In some ways it's better, because once the HDD is full you just stick another one in, although yes you can delete your games it does make some sense.

[sak500]

@ante

How many updates has ps4 received? It's the same crappy ps3 interface from 6 years back. As a matter of face xbone has received more major updates than ps3 in it's lifecycle. Your achiev... sorry trophies are updating realtime nowadays or still takes sometime like ps3 days?

[Whitey2k]

Fanboy comment u make me laugh no matter how muxh ms F*cks you over u silly fanboys run back to it

[razrye]

Obviously you are a lil troll. The ps4 has a different ui than the ps3. Terrible attempt at trolling. The ps4 is the most powerful gaming console in the world and that is a fact.

[LexHazard79]

True Xbox owners don't call it Xbone!
What set you claim -----!

[incendy35]

Very curious to see what speeds we can get with USB3 SSD drives. Also curious to see if we can store games on these drives or only use them for personal files such as MP3/MP4's.

[vallencer]

I'm pretty sure you'll be able to store anything from the one one it. That's kind of the point of the external storage since we can't upgrade what's inside it.

[incendy35]

They have not said what its use would be yet. Many people use external storage for viewing photos, movies etc on multiple machines. Traditionally removable storage is used for data and not installs.

[ShowGun901]

I dunno man, everybody says the difference between the htc1 and the galaxy s4 was the sd card slot, but on the samsung, you can't run an app from the card, you gotta copy it over... kinda lame if you ask me, i haven't even bought a card yet... so yea, its implied you can store games on it, but i wouldn't be suprised if you couldn't play from the external drive. unless they say something concrete, i assume the worst usually, because if they had something good to say, they'd be screaming it.

[n4rc]

Says external game storage.. He has to check on media

So its holding games and perhaps movie and shows you purchase etc

[LexHazard79]

Im pretty sure you can use it for games just like Xbox 360!

[B1uBurneR]

I bet it will be proprietary HDD with a ridiculous price..based on their past practices.

[Sayburr]

That is my fear also.

[4logpc]

A simple google search would show how wrong you are.

[xx4xx]

I used two 16gb thumbs ticks as my additional storage for the 360.

They worked great and were not Microsoft or Xbox branded.

I'm sure they will offer inflated priced storage options with Xbox branding but they won't be the only option.

[Dread]

yeah dude, because Sony on the other hand sells its memory devices super cheap. Like the extra memory of the Vita, its a steal.

:)

[Haki1112]

Man have the chinese made knock offs of those things yet? I got FFX HD on my vita and cant even download FFX2HD because I got an 8 gig with persona 4 on it lol

[Sheikh Yerbouti]

Not as cheap as a standard SD card.

[B1uBurneR]

I meant it as to stop the practice, I own a XBO, I'm looking forward to this but like others above I hope we can use our own HDD.

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

YESSSSSSS!

[Blackleg-sanji]

well almost time to cave and buy a xbox one lets see what e3 brings for them and ill immediately buy one to accompany my wiiu and ps4

[ShowGun901]

LOL right now there's little to justify buying the ps4, no less ANOTHER next-gen system... i'd wait a year honestly. get it around november, or tax-time next year.

[hankmoody]

THANK you. Been trying to convince myself to get a PS4 and nothing's getting my interest on it. Not a knock on the system itself as the games are coming at some point but really, there's no reason whatsoever to run out and buy one, not now anyway.

[Blackleg-sanji]

im enjoying the games i have on ps4 so to each his own

[Shane Kim]

Every multiplat released so far runs worse on XO, and what other exclusive is there besides Ryze? Plus it's 100 bucks more expensive and that would somehow be more jusified?

Xbox fanatics logic never cease to amaze.

[Gr1mmyshadows]

Im on the same boat as you friend. Really excited to see what e3 holds and whether or not to buy a ps4 this year or next. The XB1 occupies my time quite a lot so im in no rush for another system.

[Blackleg-sanji]

finally a non bias response but yea i think e3 will probably make both of us crack

[ShowGun901]

LOL don't get me wrong guys, what i'm saying is NEITHER has an expansive enough library to warrant the "I NEED THIS" level... i love my ps4, on my second playthough of infamous! the problem is, ive got about 7 games, 6 of which are also on ps3.

[gedden7]

Even better??? Hmm well it sucks right now so better is a good thing...

KI sucks online
BF4 Sucks online
Titan Fall is good but the game itself is as shallow as Hot Chicks views on politics...

Next Summer Xbone is be a good system...

[OpieWinston]

KI net code is amazing. What do you mean "sucks online"?

[gedden7]

Sure it is buddy....

Play 1k + matches and get back to me...

[JeffGUNZ]

What? Titanfall is one of the best online shooters (FPS) I have ever played. The game is fun, that's the most important aspect.

[gedden7]

I wonder by the summer time... Will you still be playing..

[JeffGUNZ]

Yes I will. I am more of an online FPS gamer so def. I hate COD now, they need to revamp that series to get me interested. Sure, I'll play watchdogs and Destiny but I will play Titanfall till I 10th gen. and unlock anything.

[DarthJay]

Since I own Battlefield 4 on Xbox One and Playstation 4, I can assure you, it is 204990503903 times worse on Playstation 4.

[razrye]

Yeah you bought the same game twice for two different systems. Then you say that the ps4 version is worse? The xbox version has less resolution and draw distance which is vital for large maps. Try harder next time.

[DarthJay]

@razrye The Xbox version is WAY more stable with WAY less lag. No need to try hard. The Playstation version is inferior. I'll trade seeing an extra blade of grass for less lag. Thanks for playing.

I own it on PC too. You mad about it? I own BF3 and BF:BC2 on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC as well. How bout them apples?

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Good news on the storage front.

On an unrelated note... N4G please stop with the craptastic auto play ads you sneak in on the very bottom of the page. Its bush league and you know it. Angers me every time I hear it come on.

[Wikkid666]

I hate those ads too.. I just disabled Flash pluggin for n4g.

[Emilio_Estevez]

see below Wikkid

[Emilio_Estevez]

Drop the devs a line here with as much info as you can. We don't like those adds either and they aren't supposed to be there.

[email protected]

[xDHAV0K24x]

only way to go is up

[sandman224]

Read the title of the article. He states they are working on making xbox one much better. The only time you hear things like this is because there is a problem with the console and sales aren't what Microsoft was expecting. You never hear Sony saying the same thing about the ps4. It's because they know what we want.

[sak500]

You never hear sony saying it cuz they don't have capability to make any major changes in the os of their consoles including ps3. They'll wait for any new additions ms makes and then attempt in half baked way to incorporate those features.

[OpieWinston]

No it's because Sony isn't communicating to their fanbase AT ALL.

They just feed you what you want to know with smoke and mirrors "Over 1000 self publish games in development".

Just to make you believe that the system will have plenty of games, even if it lacks a fundamental load of AAA games because Sony is still in a financial woe.

[beerzombie]

Yep thats what they sold the ps4 on hopes and dreams. A 1000 indie games just like android or Apple most of them are not even worth playing.

[xx4xx]

People have been begging Microsoft for this option.

I bet this will be announced at E3 wirh the update available at close of presentation.

[SnakeCQC]

I don't get the need for external storage its silly. They should provide a utility to copy all your games and saves to a new hdd and allow people to then just swap the internal hdd.

[koliosis]

Dont mess with the X

[RosweeSon]

Just need some games to take up the space now, oh wait dead rising has 13gb of updates... Hmmm.

[Zenith4k]

Ha 'Even Better' I think he ment better just better 'because it S..t"

[gamer7804]

I hope it will let u download movies and tv shows from Xbox video to the external drive

[kewlkat007]

I can see gamers needing the space much later on but what are gamers storing on their hhds, related to gaming, that takes up so much space?

Microsoft been on fire though with moves,news updates

[choujij]

Will this require XBL?

[Iamnemesis4880]

Will not

[kingPoS]

I suppose this is good news. Hopefully Microsoft is smart about this. Last I heard the X360 had an arbitrary limit of 32gb. If they want avoid some serious flack, they should allow XBO partitions to be at least 1tb in size. With games routinely reaching sizes of 30gb and up, HDD space is going to otherwise run out that much faster.

Gateway MT6706 2008

[CaulkSlap]

Get ready to pay 2-3 times as much for a MS approved external HDD.

[Iamnemesis4880]

When this happens i will go straight out a get the largest HDD i can find

[SegaGamer]

It's hard to read comments these days without you Sony and Microsoft fanboys ruining things.

Do you not realise how pathetic you all sound when you are throwing what you think are insults at each other ?

Mum jokes, pathetic, my console has better games than yours, pathetic. The thing that makes this even more pathetic is that you people are probably full grown adults, get a bloody grip.

[TimeSkipLuffy]

storing games on external HD would be awesome! I want that for my PS4, too. I know I can swap HDs for my PS4 but I prefer an external solution. Not only for game installs (incl. digital purchased games)!
The HD storage issue was one among those issues why I didn't buy the X1 as secondary console at start.