I bought one for the boy. Obviously he loves it.
We had the Xbox 360 for years I had a ton of games that I bought like for two dollars each great call of duty games and battlefields assassin's Creed you get it. What I loved about it is you put a game in and it played.

I then went on to eBay and I bought a lot of the games that he loves that I know he loves like call of duty battlefield.

But then I learned that you can't play a game on Xbox you have to download it into your internal hard drive to play it even if you have the game which makes no sense to me. Why buy the game you can download it on the Xbox pass for free.

Problem solved . I'll buy an external hard drive and I bought it two terabyte external hard drive. dad , it works but then you have to transfer the games from that the internal hard drive to play it. This really makes it hard because call of duty I think is like 256 gigs to be able to download the game. Then like 20 gigs per game. Forza horizon 5 is 256

Is there a way to increase your internal storage? if I would have done this again I would have bought the two terabyte one instead of the one knowing how much you use it. Not even a question.

And this doesn't even start with the Game pass which we have that he can download all these games and we cant get it to work because it doesn't have enough storage to increase our storage.

Any recommendation for you gamers and if you have a recommendation is there a place on eBay or Amazon etc. that you go this is what I would buy to fix this.

Yes I tried googling this and it said you can get a storage expansion card. I'm not an expert will that make it increase the internal storage ? Make it larger so that we can work together between the external and the internal. I like about five games to always stay on the internal hard drive that we have. Recommendations is much appreciative

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Does anybody know of a call of duty or similar type of game or two people can be on the same television split screen like the old halos and do a campaign? Not talking about zombies. But two player campaign on the same television screen.

Is there a call of duty that offers that?

get this, there is a slot in the back to plug it into...

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Storage-Expansion-Solid-State/dp/B09BJYXMDW/ref=asc_df_B09BJYXMDW?mcid=33558f1e87bf3f7381c818134a70bd26&hvocijid=2745082044973681659-B09BJYXMDW-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=692875362841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2745082044973681659&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1013445&hvtargid=pla-2281435180738&th=1

Check out the Battlefield games. I miss the BF3 days.

There is an internal expansion slot for an SSD that provides pretty much seamless gameplay experiences.

Yes sir, it's an issue with modern gaming. Games like COD are specifically bad with ridiculous download sizes. Pretty sure with COD though, you can go in and delete things that he might not be playing... for example, it should let you delete the campaign if he only plays multiplayer.

But yes, you will need an Xbox specific SSD if you want to download and play a lot of games. The one linked above is good... they have a 1 TB option which is a lot cheaper.

All modern games require an SSD... the old style hard drives just aren't fast enough to stream the games (which is also the reason why they don't run off the physical discs anymore... the data transfer is too slow). So the external drive works well to store games, but you have to transfer to a SSD when you want to play it. I have the 1 TB expansion and it's more than enough space. Most of the games will be in the 30-50 GB range so 1.5 TB total will hold a lot of games.

For split screen option, you are pretty much screwed on modern shooters.

Master Chief Collection will give you the first 4 Halo's though, and you can do split screen on all of them.

Another couple of Couch Co-op game's I recommend:

It Takes Two (you literally have to play with a friend for this one. family friendly, but the story revolves around two parents about to divorce having to work together, just a heads up. It's an absolutely great game, feels very Pixar)


These are more old school arcade style:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
Broforce
Castle Crashers


Baldurs Gate 3 is more of a point and click Dungeons and dragon style RPG, but it allows for Couch co-op as well. It's rated mature though.

Something I've recently started doing if I want to start playing a game immediately is doing the cloud game option while it downloads. Works surprisingly well with my internet connection, yours may vary. It's great with the Gamepass because you can test whether you like a game before sinking several hours into a download. The Series X is a definite improvement in download times over the One though, so typically I'm just uninstalling everything I'm not actively playing, and then cloud gaming anything I'm waiting on a download for. If you have a wireless plan that limits how much data you can use, that might be a risky option for you though.

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get this, there is a slot in the back to plug it into...

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Storage-Expansion-Solid-State/dp/B09BJYXMDW/ref=asc_df_B09BJYXMDW?mcid=33558f1e87bf3f7381c818134a70bd26&hvocijid=2745082044973681659-B09BJYXMDW-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=692875362841&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2745082044973681659&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1013445&hvtargid=pla-2281435180738&th=1

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This is the solution to the storage issue. 100%. You will not have to move anything back and forth, as this storage is a true expansion of internal storage, unlike an external drive which requires moving to internal storage first.


For split screen, best option is Master Chief Collection. Halo Infinite can be played multiplayer Online in split screen, but not campaign. You could also play A Way Out, but that's not a shooter like CoD.

Remind me asking how does the storage expansion card work

You plug it into your Xbox. What then is it basically expand your 1 TB hard drive to two if you get a 1 TB storage expansion card?

Once you plug it in what does the Xbox read on it

There are some used ones for in the 70s on eBay for 1 TB.

Pretty sure any non-Series X/S games should run from the external drive and you only need to store the modern games on the internal drive. Meaning if you have a large collection of 360 games they should be able to be played from the external console and what you're running into is your son tried to also store Series games on the external drive and play them.

The Series consoles have to emulate the Xbox 360 and Xbox Original hardware, which is why you have to download the game. The disc acts as a license to play it.

The expansion card is just an additional NVME SSD added to the internal storage and allows Series games to be played. If you add one and keep the external drive you should keep all of your old games on the external drives and any new games you want to keep downloaded on the internal/expansion slot drives.

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Remind me how does the storage expansion card work

You plug it into your Xbox. What then is it basically expand your 1 TB hard drive to two if you get a 1 TB storage expansion card?

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Plug it in, fire up the Xbox, and it will read it automatically. I believe it will prompt you that a new storage device was detected and you can rename it, etc.

When you fire up the 'my games/apps' section it will show you all your games and your total available space. But they are separate drives and they do not share storage space. You can dig in a little deeper in the menu system and you can see what games are stored on what drive. I think they do this so that if you have 2 Xbox's in the house you can put your favorite games on the removable SSD so that you can quickly swap the games between consoles.

It's all pretty seamless and the only time you really need to worry about which drive is which is when you start to run out of space on 1 of the drives. If you have the internal drive set as the default download location, you will sometimes have to manually move games to the expansion drive to make space for new games to install on the internal. There's probably a setting somewhere that you can tell it to install wherever there is available space... it works fine either way so I haven't bothered changing my settings.

One small question before I go to eBay and actually try to get one of these suckers.

Does that car make it where it reads instantaneously like it's an internal hard drive where I can have game store there and I can play them immediately or is it something more of like it can transfer from the external hard drive to this drive quickly?

My understanding is like an internal hard drive that I can plug in and it's ready to go immediately and I can store the games on that

Thank you everybody for your information I'm not a tech guru

Yes, it works like the internal drive. The external drive will work, but only for games from previous generations. You can't launch a modern Series X/S game for it.