” There’s no reason you cant buy an NVME SSD off the shelf and use that…”
What position do you have at Redmond in the Xbox Division.
Exactly.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Literally you have no idea. Unless you have done a deep dive into the system architecture, persuing technical documents and studying development pipelines, and been part of the development team you have no idea why they decided you could not use use a standard off the shelf NVME drive. The money they will make off of exclusive expansion drives is negligible. Anyone with a modicum of industry knowledge realizes console manufacturers make the majority of their profit from games, not hardware. You are making things up with no basis of knowledge for such a proclamation. Microsoft in the midst of trying to be more gamer friendly and offer advantages decides, “Hey, let’s backstab gamers and force them to buy a proprietary piece of hardware that actually isn’t necessary for the proper function of the architecture we have chosen.” Really? That is what you believe? Does that really make sense? It is the antithesis of everything they have tried to build over the past 2 years. No, I have zero doubt there is a specific reason some OTF drive cannot be used and it is something we will learn about in the coming months.
The people thinking you can shove some off the shelf hardware in there have failed to do one thing. State why MS went proprietary. And if you think it was to make money then you lack any perception of the financials involving hardware.
I am not saying it couldn’t be done I am saying it is impossible for you or I to know at this point.
