Of course. Didn't think of that. Makes sense now. Didn't want to think I had missed a trick just getting the console!
Gaming Xbox Series X|S
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Xbox Series X = £450
GamePass Ultimate £15 p/m *24 = £360
Total = £910
All Access = £35 *24 = £840 total
Think GP is £10.99 in the UK, no?
It’s about £20 cheaper on the X and £10 on the S, which is still better than 0%. However, when you account for the fact that MS are still doing Gold converted to Game Pass for £1 and places like Cd keys offer Game Pass codes for considerably cheaper, if you have the cash upfront it will still be the cheapest way to get an Xbox and game pass if you’re smart + also you have the chance of cancelling game pass if you’re not using it regularly enough
Ah, cheaper than I thought it was for GP!
Yes it is
It's £11 in UK not £15. Also your maths is £100 off, £810 vs £840 based on those numbers. All Access is £29pm and not £35 too.
So it's £450 + £264 = £714
24*£29 = £696
so £18 saving if you were to buy at RRP.
But worth noting, CDKEYS has 3 months of Gamepass Ultimate for £22 (so 3 months for the price of 2). So if you buy 2 years on that upfront, it's £176 (vs the £264 if you pay monthly)
That's honestly not even that bad a price for an extra 1tb.
GAME are still down after 5 hours. This is a blatant ploy to get you in their stores and they’d probably try to sell you a dodgy second hand phone whilst you there.
Smyths site is working. Just the x section isn’t working. So both probably want people in their shops.
Smyths have hundreds in store, almost a full number. Don't do access though in store.
Eh? Is that legit? Will that go up in price or should I just stock up on a couple years of that now?
Cheers, typo for that but had wrong numbers for All-Access based on an image I saw. It had the prices as £24.99 and £34.99 GPB for some reason, so I thought it was those all along!
Reporting that elvis hasn’t reported the update Xbox stock count
They're the USD prices so probably just lazy conversion or guesswork before GBP price was released
Agreed, I think the actual drives will cost that much anyway so it isn't like they're massively overpricing it when compared to something like the Vita storage when that happened.
Yeah haha I am not someone actually looking to get these machines yet but Microsoft is doing a lot IMO to make it a convincing and value-worthy purchase. Getting All-Access in a year or two is something I am strongly considering.They're the USD prices so probably just lazy conversion or guesswork before GBP price was released
Yeah it's legit. I was considering stocking up on it too.
https://www.cdkeys.com/3-month-xbox-game-pass-ultimate-xbox-one-pc
You haven't been around to tell us how bad the Zenimax acquisition is for the industry yet or how MS are gonna feck them all up.. ??
Yep. I think that will even be cheaper than getting a new SSD for the PS5. Does the PS5 have a second M.2 bay for expansion or do you have to take out the original SSD and slot in a larger capacity one? Because if it's the latter then ouch.
Why would I care who owns who? If anything, MS might actually give Bethseda a much needed kick up the arse!
PS5 should be more expensive at the start as the SSD cards that the PS5 needs are not on the market. In a few years they should be cheaper.
I am pretty sure they'll have a solution for an additional storage to be plugged in but it won't be as straightforward as the Xbox solution looking at the images so far. There will probably be a PS5 teardown next month to let us know.
It'll be an interesting one as Sony will be releasing a list of drives that will be supported and probably more importantly are actually able to slot into the PS5. It could go a lot of ways. Eg. Maybe the drives released that work in the PS5 are at first all £250+ drives? Alternatively a company could create one that is perfect for the PS5 and they manage to undercut the Xbox version... I expect this to be something that isn't worked out properly until well into next year, but at first I do expect Sony's solution to be the more expensive of the two and the most confusing for your average customer.
Edit: Although all that said, I don't think either company will be bothered about getting into a pissing contest over the price of additional storage. People will choose their console based on reasons other than an SSD costing £20 more or whatever. People will just buy the storage at the price offered regardless if they want it.
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There are some gen-4 M.2 SSD's on the market which should be suitable for the PS5, but going from the stock 825gb to 2tb will cost you about £360 at current prices. That is a hell of a lot more expensive then the £160 it will cost to take the XSX up to 2tb.
Series X btw. £25 deposit which you can get refunded if you talk to the right person too.
No X's at Smyths near me, that's frustrating as a few of us wanted to do All Access.
Yeah, have to wait and see. As Sony said they will validate the list of storage cards that should work, but that will happen most likely after the console is out.
Yeah, I'd put it down to covid more than anything if I'm honest. I can't see these not being wanted, although I forgot to ask about the PS5 situation.
I've had mine secured for ages, but we decided to get another as a present on a whim about an hour ago so I wanted to do all access on that, but it's definitely online only. However, like I say, despite having a no refund policy they can actually refund you if they choose to do so, so I'll probably still try when they get the site back up.
Series X on Game if anyone wants one
No all access yet though
No all access yet though
Queues are back up though...
Got through the queue on Game, and it's saying only open to people who have already pre-ordered 
Apparently it was saying that at 8am this morning for people. Absolute joke once again.
Apparently it was saying that at 8am this morning for people. Absolute joke once again.
I will, just because he would want me to in his absence.
Series S still available on Amazon if anyone needs one.
On a serious note, good luck to those hunting the Series X. Hope you all manage to get one.
Smyths AA live
It's fecking up for me though, cnuts have registerd me with Klarna then right at the end says technical problem
SameIt's fecking up for me though, cnuts have registerd me with Klarna then right at the end says technical problem
I got an email from Klarna saying my direct debit is set up though so not sure if that means anything.
That was happening earlier to some people. So they fixed nothing.It's fecking up for me though, cnuts have registerd me with Klarna then right at the end says technical problem
Up on Amazon it seems. I just randomly remembered it was today and pre-ordered. Was this supposed to be hard?
Also question, when do they take the payment. It's a few days before they send, right?
Also question, when do they take the payment. It's a few days before they send, right?
Showing out of stock now