Xbox one S storage

[Beef Boss]

Hey guys. I got an Xbox One S for Christmas and Doom and Halo 5 Guardians also. I have used 63 percent of my 500GB storage. Why do these games. Need to be downloaded if I have the disk? And the games also get installed from my internet? I've used over 100GB according to the last twelve hours of me downloading my games which I own the disk for. Am i doing something wrong here...? I had to wait a couple hours for my game to download from my disk and the internet to play it. I haven't even gotten to halo yet... And I could only use 360 GB of storage for apps and games?! I thought I would have 500GB of storage since it is the 500GB model... Now I need to get a 2TB external before I can get any more games. Anyone else having the same problem? Each game is taking either 70GB for Doom and 100GB for Halo 5 Guardians...

[EunSoo]

I think the game only contains the activation key for the game. Games are getting too big for disks so they are now downloading everything

[Beef Boss]

That's dumb

[saladcrack]

Yeah the disc isn't big enough to actually hold the game so it just contains the key to play the game (that's why you need to put the disc in if you want to play it).  This is how it's been since the new generation Xbox One and PS4.  And I'm pretty sure the One S comes in at least 1 Tb models if not 2 Tb.  But yes just drop $100 on a 1-2 Tb external like most people with more than 5-10 major games.

[saladcrack]

Though only 360 Gb from the start is definitely not right.

[Beef Boss]

4 minutes ago, Gamessys said:

Though only 360 Gb from the start is definitely not right.

I did have an update for my Xbox and my controllers needed updated too so I don't know...

[Bradl79]

just get a portable HDD, they are pretty inexpensive now

 

2TB Portable HDD

 

if u care about speed then get a SSD instead but u have to sacrifice storage 

[Beef Boss]

Well SSDs are more expensive and since none of my 360 games work with my new Xbox I'll go with HDD storage. Before I could even play on it I had a 1.5 gigabyte update which was also a nightmare lol

[TheBestUserName]

1 hour ago, SCGazelle said:

Games are getting too big for disks so they are now downloading everything

Nah that's not it. Check the storage capacity for Blu ray discs. They're huge. 

[EunSoo]

47 minutes ago, TheBestUserName said:

Nah that's not it. Check the storage capacity for Blu ray discs. They're huge. 

Huge compared to a DVD, capacity for a dual-layer is 50gb, not enough for both of the games OP mentioned. I doubt they use a 3 or 4 layer disk because 2 layer ones are found everywhere and much cheaper. Xbox has made it a standard to just put the activation on the disk and have the game download, no matter the size.

[Beef Boss]

I just hate to have my Xbox on all day and night to install these games. But if the disk has some key why would it say the disk has around 50-60 gigabytes of data? 

[Beef Boss]

Is there supposed to be a stand for my Xbox? I didn't get one in my box...? Uh that's interesting... I guess I was missing some things then.

[EunSoo]

6 hours ago, BadluckBrian said:

I just hate to have my Xbox on all day and night to install these games. But if the disk has some key why would it say the disk has around 50-60 gigabytes of data? 

idk, but microsoft talks about it here: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/games/game-setup/install-games#9c58029296d341f8810149d1878a7ea8

 

5 hours ago, BadluckBrian said:

Is there supposed to be a stand for my Xbox? I didn't get one in my box...? Uh that's interesting... I guess I was missing some things then.

You have to buy it for $20. They used to ship them with it but idk what happened.

[Beef Boss]

7 hours ago, SCGazelle said:

idk, but microsoft talks about it here: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/games/game-setup/install-games#9c58029296d341f8810149d1878a7ea8

 

You have to buy it for $20. They used to ship them with it but idk what happened.

That's dumb too! Jerks at microSOFT. You don't even need the stand luckily.