Xbox Series X Without Disc Drive

When you have the xbox series x standing up you ll have the disc drive in the bottom left hand side.

Xbox series x without disc drive. The series x promises to be back compatible with the entire xbox catalog and xbox xbox 360 and xbox one games can be stored and played from the hdd. For what it s worth i was able to get things. Microsoft has teamed up with seagate to design the proprietary drive which digital foundry describes as very short quite weighty and rather like a memory card. Yes the xbox series x will be capable of playing discs including games and 4k blu rays due to its internal 4k optical drive.

By oscar dayus on june 11 2019 at 12 30am pdt. Your collection of games and movies that you play on. During our testing of the xbox series x it quickly became clear that microsoft has gone to great lengths to ensure the series x s cooling system is as quiet as possible but it s equally apparent that similar care has not been taken with the disc drive it makes a real racket. As suspected the xbox series x console will come with a 1tb internal solid state drive ssd as standard but it s now been confirmed that storage will be expandable via 1tb expansion cards.

Here s what you re paying for with the 499 xbox series x. Xbox series x s backward. You can store the games on an hdd if you like but in order to. On the topic of hard drives it s worth noting that you will not be able to play xbox series x games off of an external hard drive.

Microsoft says you can plug an existing usb 3 1 drive into your xbox series x or s and instantly play any xbox one games you ve stored on it. This could mean full backward compatibility on the next xbox could come at a premium price if an xbox series x with a disc drive is. Xbox series x does have disc drive microsoft confirms at e3 disc drives are going nowhere. We ve covered the 4k bit already so all that s left is the drive.

It s not really a problem with disc based games as they install to and run from the console s internal storage.