“X” signifies performance, and the My Passport X packs a bunch of it, in a nifty little package. Off topic, research has proved that gamers connected with the alphabet “X” more than they connect to others. The “X” suffix obviously takes its influence from the Xbox One, and for reasons unknown, most brands end up adding an “X” to their gaming products. Western Digital recognised this problem, and introduced the My Passport X portable drive as a heavenly sent solution. Thats just worth one Triple A game, or maybe not even that.
The majority of data plans are capped at 50GB. And we know how terribly un-gamer friendly the data usage policies of ISPs in our country are. Then, there’s the issue that once you delete a game, if you want to play it again, you have to download the darned thing all over again. This hinders your combined gaming experience during the ownership of the console. And console internal storage is limited, at 500GB. That has resulted in gamers having to make difficult choices, like deleting a beloved game in order to make space for a new one. Triple A games take anything between 30 – 85GB of space on your hard drive. For some games, the volume of data is humungous.
#FORMAT MY PASSPORT ULTRA TO XBOX ONE INSTALL#
This is the generation of digital downloads, so one has to download and install GBs of data on their internal drives in order to play a game. Gone are the days when DVDs and Blu-Ray discs were all that was needed to launch a game. Since the Xbox One’s induction in the retail markets worldwide in 2013, I’ve run into a bunch people who own the console and complain about, well, you guessed it, storage space, or the sheer lack of it.