Report: Xbox 360 Getting USB Storage Support

I've said for quite some time that Microsoft catches 10x more shit than they deserve. Here MS is doing something AWESOME, read it, FUCKING AWESOME, but because it's not unlimited, THEY ARE THE FUCKING DEVIL?!

I really hate gamers, for so long we've dealt with people telling us games are for kids that we've collectively decided to act like pissy little children who throw tantrums anytime we don't get what we want AND a pony.

For fucks sake, I've got tons of old flash drives laying around, I'm going to start downloading demos to flash drives exclusively. Fuck, now I don't have to buy an overpriced hard drive because I've damn near filled up my stock 20 gig. Lastly, someone was talking about how now this is bad because they will kill the onboard memory and force the consumer to get USB drive. SO WHAT, OH NO, tell me they won't kill the 512MB of local storage when a 2gb flash drives costs 7.99!!! WHAT ROBBERY!

Some people will complain about anything and reword anything to just hate on something. I've been into computers since I was 5, I grew up on Win 3.1, win95, etc etc. I went through my stupid "microsoft is the devil" phase just like I went through a goth phase and a "fuck my parents" phase. Its called being a petulant child and I grew out of it.

So hate, hate away, make hate replies if it placates you into ignoring the real psychological issues causing you to hate an entity the same way teenagers hate authority figures (no reason). I will be making some portable drives out of a couple old laptop drives and loading them up with demos and making backup copies of the games I've purchased.

Wow, clever.

I think Joystiq is right on the money. With this change, you can buy a USB thumb drive, and format it as the console's storage memory (assuming you don't have the $$$ to shell out for a MS HDD.)

The beauty of it is that MS no longer has to include Flash memory in it's Arcade consoles, saving on costs.

So in essence, they're shifting the $5 or so it cost per console for the memory off to the consumer. Bloody brilliant. =P

Will this work for game installs though? Shit, imagine sticking that on an SSD for giggles...

So where do I sign up to get a refund for my $50 512MB memory card?

so would we be able to install games to the storage device, which would be bottlenecked by the USB throughput? So would it be faster than the DVD drive, but not as fast as playing it off of the harddrive?

Being able to have more than one game at a time installed on my 20 gig drive (13 gigs usable, lol) would be nice

it's limited to 16 GB. they aren't giving up the old fuckeroo they pulled on HDD's.

This might increase the possibility of people hacking their save game files. At least Borderlands patched out all the hacked garbage. Anyhow. Good move by MicroSoft.

now what we really need is for microsoft to come up with a way for the 360 to read an external NTFS hdd

The KILLER idea here would be allowing an external USB Blu-Ray drive to work and playback through software installed through XBL. Seriously MS, this is a great chance to think outside of the box, enable more media playback (MKVs anyone?*), so don't blow it with stupid control schemes.

*And yes I know about TVersity so no need to jump all over me about there being a way to do this already.

This is to prevent a lawsuit on monopolizing against other storage vendors. Essentially they get away with saying we are allowing 3rd party manufacturers to make 'storage space' without sacrificing the ability to require people to buy larger storage at 2x the cost.

Forget hacking.. they've already got control over that with the banhammer.. this is simply to eek out more money.

I would love to have the option to have a 500gb usb hard drive work on the xbox 360!!! Yea thanks Microsoft for doing your least to help us out with your sh*tty storage problems.

Much needed, but the screenshot seems to indicate that it will be limited to 16Gb...

Seems to be a legal loophole thing, just as I think Sony's OtherOS stuff was.

Funny though, I have half a terabyte on my Wii, the one place I don't really need it :)

Fuck that. Cheaper wireless adapter, plz.

Wow, welcome to 2004

Good to hear. A few years too late.

So I'm wondering if, once a USB drive is formatted for the 360, will it be easy to back up that information to a PC? Even if all I can do is take an image of the whole 360 partition that would be useful. Data storage devices are not 100% reliable, and since MS has still failed to enable cloud-based savefile copying I would really like to have backups of such things.

About damn time

Sigh, so close, yet so far. A USB -> IDE/SATA device would've allowed for 500GB+ X360 HDDs. Gotta keep selling those overpriced hard drives of theirs though. Just not enough storage on these small things.

It's about time? I have no problem with them formatting and encrypting the device so I can have more storage on the 360.

so I'd be able to get a cheap usb hard drive and format it for my 360? awesome!

OMG !!!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY A CLUE!

(If we can get verification on this, I would love it, as well as an estimate of when it might happen)