rumor: cheap storage comes to 360

**michealo** · 03-18-2010 01:30 PM

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/18/xb...n-2010-update/

Documentation obtained by Joystiq – and subsequently confirmed with two separate sources – reveals that "USB Mass Storage Device Support on Xbox 360" will soon be a reality. The document, authored by a senior software development engineer at Microsoft, states that due to "increased market penetration of high-capacity, high throughput USB mass storage devices, a 2010 Xbox 360 system update" will allow consumers to save and load game data from USB devices. The update is purportedly coming in Spring 2010.

Once the update occurs, Xbox 360 owners will be able to download Xbox Live Arcade games, Xbox Live Indie games, Games on Demand, DLC and Title Updates to the storage device. "USB storage devices may, however, have far greater memory capacity than MUs (at the date of writing, the largest MU is 512 MB), and may therefore support previously infeasible operations-such as installation of a full disc-based title." That's right, you can also store disc-based games to the USB device; however, it will require the disc to be in the tray for authentication, identical to the current functionality.

16GB cap to stay well under the lowest accessory capacity, but still pretty cool.

**Snadinator** · 03-18-2010 01:32 PM

Are we talking flash sticks or External USB harddrives?

**michealo** · 03-18-2010 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by Snadinator

Are we talking flash sticks or External USB harddrives?

both, i would imagine.

**Snadinator** · 03-18-2010 01:36 PM

So I could use my 500GB external drive? Really? That would be sweet.

**michealo** · 03-18-2010 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by Snadinator

So I could use my 500GB external drive? Really? That would be sweet.

well, 16GB of it.
i have a few 8GB flash drives that will come in nicely for installing commonly played titles.

**Snadinator** · 03-18-2010 01:40 PM

Why only 16GB of it?

**capnmonkey** · 03-18-2010 01:42 PM

Better late than never.

**Snadinator** · 03-18-2010 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by Snadinator

Why only 16GB of it?

Wait a minute.... that doesn't require answering. They don't want to outdo their overpriced proprietary hard drives.

Goddamn fucktarded capitalists.

**CorruptedDragon** · 03-18-2010 01:52 PM

Well, its a start at least. Hopefully they open it up so we can use our own external drives of any size.

**capnmonkey** · 03-18-2010 01:54 PM

I wonder if a 200GB drive partitioned with 8-10 partitions would show up as 8-10 external drives?

**Blinx123** · 03-18-2010 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by Snadinator

Wait a minute.... that doesn't require answering. They don't want to outdo their overpriced proprietary hard drives.

Goddamn fucktarded capitalists.

You're Canadian, so I don't blame you for not understanding Capitalism.

**MSX2** · 03-18-2010 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by Blinx123

You're Canadian, so I don't blame you for not understanding Capitalism.

You're eastern European, so I don't blame you for not understanding that Canada is a capitalist country. See how witty that was?

**Godstar** · 03-18-2010 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by Snadinator

Wait a minute.... that doesn't require answering. They don't want to outdo their overpriced proprietary hard drives.

Goddamn fucktarded capitalists.

I agree, they should have opened up their storage system ages ago. This is a pretty useless baby step.

**twonunpackmule** · 03-18-2010 02:44 PM

Oh boy! I hope they change the formating.

**Gunyaga** · 03-18-2010 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by MSX2

You're eastern European, so I don't blame you for not understanding that Canada is a capitalist country. See how witty that was?

That,.........was awesome

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