Expansion card prices continue to skyrocket and Microsoft isn’t doing anything about it

When the Xbox Series was announced, we all quickly realized that the only official way to expand the machine’s storage was to check out a third-party, SEAGATE. Using a proprietary solution doesn’t have to be bad in itself, you really avoid a lot of compatibility and certification issues, so it makes sense that Microsoft went with a partner for this company.

However, two years after the launch of the two models, X and S respectively, we continue to see how the price of expansion cards keep shooting. Not only is there no official price drop, but in some territories the price even ended up going up.

The price of Xbox expansion cards continues to explode

Of course, you can still find it with a temporary discount, but this is a fix. The problem here is a broken promise from Microsoft itself, which assured us during the Xbox Series presentation that more partners would be among those chosen to authorize storage options for the console. Reality? Well, the reality two years later is that we can only rely on SEAGATE, which, being the only competitor, can set prices and options as it pleases.

Not a few users are complaining about it, I’ve lost count of the Reddit threads I’ve come to read especially in the last few months. To see the evolution of the product on Amazon, I used an extension for Edge called “Keepa” and which provides this type of information. You can see how its price ballooned in December and then apply paltry discounts of 4 or 6%. In the statistics you can see how the basic model came to cost up to 300 dollars…

We urgently need Microsoft to open up the possibility of using the Xbox Velocity Architecture to other storage vendors; Because otherwise there is no competition, and without competition… they laugh at us with the prices.