Xbox One X: 10 Critical Reactions You Need To Know
9. The 1TB Hard Drive Is Too Small
"Where the One X falters is on its hard drive - a small 1TB drive that comes standard in every system... Its 1TB hard drive might seem like enough room to store your entire library but, consider the fact that all these new Enhanced for Xbox One X titles use 4K image assets, and suddenly 1TB doesn't seem so big any more. Gears of War 4, for example, takes up 100GB on the Xbox One X. Another flagship Xbox game, Forza Motorsport 7, will be about the same when it releases its patch. Quantum Break, the Sci-Fi shooter from the studio behind Alan Wake, comes in at an internet crippling 178GB. Together, three of the Xbox One X’s most popular games will take up around 40% of your hard drive space." - Techradar
"The unit contains a 1 TB hard drive, and only 780.9 GB of it is accessible to users; when I booted it up for the first time, 780.8 GB of free space was available...Count yourself lucky if you already own a large external hard drive, because it almost feels necessary." - Polygon
"When a game does take full advantage of everything the One X can do, there’s a downside: 4K textures are huge...The One X has a one-terabyte internal hard drive (with no larger option), but at this rate that’s going to be consumed just as quickly as the original Xbox One’s 500GB. Storage space can be easily expanded with any USB hard drive, but if you don’t already own one that’s an extra expense you have to account for on top of this already premium-priced console." - IGN
An area where the One X has been almost universally criticised is its 1TB hard drive, which is ludicrously small considering the size of modern games, and moreover, modern games working off 4K textures.
It won't take long at all for a hard drive to fill up, and so it's recommended that if you've splashed cash on the console, you may as well throw a little more around to pick up a larger hard drive too.
This is especially bizarre as the Xbox One S has a 2TB model, yet there's no such option for the One X. It's further odd considering a lot of people purchasing the One X will be people who don't want the fiddling and tweaking involved with setting up a gaming PC, yet may end up forced to install a new hard drive in their shiny new console...or settle for an external.