I remember spending so much money on proprietary memory cards for the PS2. Wasted many a birthday buck on those things.
I just got an Elite a few months ago. It will be nice not to have to invest more money if I want to take a few game profiles with me.
Microsoft confirms Xbox 360 USB storage
Summary
Good news for Xbox 360 owners: Microsoft's Major Nelson has confirmed last week's reports of USB storage coming to the Xbox 360. And it's coming soon.
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Good news for Xbox 360 owners: Microsoft's Major Nelson has confirmed last week's reports of USB storage coming to the Xbox 360. And it's coming soon.
The software update that will make it happen is due April 6, giving gamers only a week and a half more of having to rely on Microsoft's proprietary memory cards and hard drives for system storage expansion--at least if they're happy with 32GB.
One detail that was confirmed from last week's leak--and that gamers might find disappointing--is the size limits on storage formatting are relatively quaint. As mentioned before, users can only have between 1GB and 16GB per USB storage device, and only two can be attached at once, maxing out external memory at 32GB. This also means you won't be able to re-purpose one of your old USB sticks as a memory device if they're smaller than 1GB, and that you can't utilize a large and cheap external hard disk drive as an alternative to Microsoft's existing hard drive options. Still, it's a step in the right direction for a console that will celebrate its fifth birthday this fall.
Nelson (whose real name is Larry Hryb and who is the director of programming for Xbox Live) also announced that Microsoft would soon be releasing Xbox-branded SanDisk USB sticks that come ready to be used right out of the box. Otherwise, to use the new storage feature on their own USB keys or external hard drives, gamers need to run a small formatting utility through the Xbox 360 dashboard. The SanDisk sticks are set to be released in May, though Hryb could not offer capacities or pricing.
For more of this story, read Microsoft confirms, dates Xbox 360 USB storage on CNET News.
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ericesque29th Mar 2010 -
Very Cool!
Now they need to allow me to set up an auto backup between the two USB drives. That way I know my saved game data is safe.
Fark29th Mar 2010 -
HMM, I have been able to upgrade my PS3
since the first release, with whatever size drive I wanted, and make backups to USB storage. A little behind on the times.
I never tried attaching a USB drive to my XBOX 360, may need to do that this weekend after the 6th, and make a backup of my data saves.
Snooki_smoosh_smoosh29th Mar 2010 -
RE: Microsoft confirms Xbox 360 USB storage
Whatever, I don't need an XBOX, I have a PC. I can use any drive size I want, any hardware I want, and there is little I could do on XBOX live I can't do on Steam. If they can't keep up, they can take their proprietary hardware, their archaic hardware restrictions, and their XBOX live accounts and shove the whole thing up their red ring of death.
Socratesfoot30th Mar 2010 -
RE: Microsoft confirms Xbox 360 USB storage
bout ****** time, pay all that money for technology, an they wanna lock it down so ya cant use it.yet gonna limit us too only using 32g with the new update. Guess anything is better than nothing. most of my xbox hds memory if full of xbox live content which I would assume xbox wants us to download. But Hey!!! Guess What I cant because its already full of other xbox live content. Why is it I can serf the net on my wii but all I can do on my xbox is get on facebook.
electrotechguy4th Apr 2010
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