Bad news for Xbox fans and those who have already pre-ordered the Xbox Series X, but it turns out that Microsoft's proprietary external storage for its next-generation game console will be very expensive

Twitter leaker Wario64 revealed that the 1TB expansion SSD for the Xbox Series X will cost $21999 and can be pre-ordered at Best Buy We knew proprietary storage expansion would be expensive, but this price is quite high

By default, the Xbox Series X comes with 1TB of internal SSD space This surpasses the PS5's 825 GB of ultra-fast storage However, given that modern games can be tens of gigabytes in size, it doesn't take much time or number of titles to fill up 1TB of storage space

So for those who can't be bothered to download and reinstall games on a regular basis, a storage upgrade will be necessary That means they will need to add another $200 to the $499 Xbox Series X

At this price, one could get change for two $299 Xbox Series S's, but the console is limited to 1440p games

Given that external SSDs use PCIe NVMe technology, storage for the Xbox Series X will not be cheap Internal NVMe SSDs for PCs are also not that cheap However, a full hard drive indicates that next-generation console games could be expensive

The same would likely apply to the PS5, which could be upgraded with an off-the-shelf M2 NVMe SSD, provided it is Sony certified However, given that the PS5 uses state-of-the-art PCIe 40 SSDs, these SSDs are not yet available It is also highly unlikely that these SSDs will be available at a reasonable price

So when the Xbox Series X launches on November 10 and the PS5 on November 12 in the US and November 19 in the UK, we will need to be prepared to become familiar with the storage space usage of the new consoles