As a lot as we just like the Xbox Sequence S as an affordable however highly effective, all-digital entry level into the Xbox console ecosystem, the machine’s 500GB of onboard storage can appear paltry when downloading and putting in at this time’s huge video games. And whereas we like how the system’s high-speed storage reduces load occasions, it additionally implies that increasing the storage may be costly.

That is all preamble for at this time’s announcement of the Carbon Black Xbox Sequence S, a model of the console with a full 1TB of storage and a $349.99 MSRP. That is about $30 lower than you’d pay for the usual, 512GB Xbox Sequence S and a further 512GB growth card lately.

Except for that storage capability, the Carbon Black console—which can launch worldwide on September 1—options the identical {hardware} energy as the unique Sequence S. On the surface, although, the low-end console now is available in a brushed black end like its bigger Sequence X cousin. The design evolution brings to thoughts the Xbox 360 period, the place the white launch consoles have been finally supplemented with a shiny black redesign and extra storage years after launch.

At a roundtable dialogue this weekend, Microsoft Head of Xbox Phil Spencer mentioned the corporate acknowledges that “for some folks across the planet $500 is an excessive amount of for a console” and that the worth level for the Sequence S may carry extra folks into the console ecosystem. On the similar time, he mentioned the corporate has heard numerous suggestions on the bounds of the 512GB storage capability and the expense of increasing it.

Regardless of an elevated concentrate on PC video games in recent times, Spencer additionally mentioned that Microsoft “stays dedicated to that [console] model of play and the pillar that’s for our model.”