As I mentioned last week, the fine peeps at Joystiq did some sleuthing and discovered that the Microsoft Xbox 360 will be supporting USB memory in the near future. Microsoft marketing guy Major Nelson confirmed the feature, which is set to hit on April 6, 2010. The good Major highly recommends solid state memory over spinning optical drives. Here are a few other points from his post:
- You can have 2 devices connected to the console at a time, enabling up to 32GB of simultaneous storage.
- The system won’t just configure the device once it is connected to the console. You’ll need to head to the memory area in system settings, select your USB Device, and choose from Configure Now (Format and Configure the Full Device), or Customize (you can choose how much memory you want configured for Xbox360 from the free space on the device.)
My 120GB Elite still has plenty of room and I don’t see myself filling it up any time soon. Non-gaming media goes to my PS3 — you know, a system that uses standard hard drives. For gamers with smaller hard drives, I can see how this will be a useful and most welcomed solution.
Any of you anxious to plug some USB flash drives into your Xbox 360?
I only have a 60gb hdd, so I might use this sometime down the road. I have recently gotten into modding some of my usb drives, so I will find something cool to make for whatever flash drive I use on my 360 eventually.
Negative. PS3 plus nullriver is all I need.
My 20GB HDD is bursting at the seams. Hell yeah I'm anxious to take advantage of this!
@ RROD;
What happened to your falcon?
-M
Already have a 120 GB HDD, so no.
That’s a great option to keep people from having to get ripped off by the Microsoft HDDs.
if you have a wii, netflix is sending out their streaming discs already.
https://www.netflix.com/NRDInfo/Wii
Ohh and they are teaming up with Scandisc so they can sell you a proprietary USB HDD. I wonder if that one will let you use more than 16/32gb?…
Correction:
SanDisc USB flash drive. Bad info from source…
This would be nice for people who recover their gamertag all the time, Now you should be able to put it on a flashdrive and just bring it where ever.
@Arguello
I got a memory card for the xbox for free when I bought mine, so I just use that. But having a flash drive for that instead would be MUCH nicer!
and the pricing gouging from M$ continues, $40 bucks for a 16gb usb drive!
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6254384.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;1
@ previous post 11
correction that is $40.00 for the 8GB one.