Microsoft’s cheaper all-digital console might only have 364GB of available storage space for games. This information comes courtesy of Redditor spead20, who took to the XboxSeriesX subreddit to show off their brand-new Xbox Series S.
In the comments of his Reddit post which shows an image of the Series S’ box, one user asked spead20 how much of the Series S 512GB of storage is actually available to players. The Redditor responded by saying there’s only “364 gb for games and apps,” which is a pitifully low amount of storage for a next-gen console.
Developers may reduce texture sizes for their next-gen games to compensate for this lower storage, but even those optimizations might not be enough. For reference, Call of Duty: Warzone is already well over 200GB, which would eat up more than half of the Xbox Series S’ storage capacity. Other modern games aren’t much better Red Dead Redemption 2 takes up 150GB.
It’s worth pointing out that this is not official information. Since we haven’t gotten our hands on a Series S ourselves, we can’t confirm spead20’s assessment; even if does seem rather likely to be true. Either way, none of us will be waiting long to find out the truth: both the Series S and X are arriving on November 10.
