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[Karma]

This is being done as a replacement for Memory Units not HDDs. Clearly they will be removing the Memory Unit slots on the new 360s.

Is USB fast enough for game installs?

 

[drizzle]

The 360 needs more usb ports. 2 usb sticks, wireless adapter, natal (assuming), HD-DVD. Plus older rock band/guitar hero instruments, 3rd party controllers, arcade sticks.

Just buy a powered hub.

 

[Daigoro]

itt: people confuse USB mass storage with USB device

in before stealth edits.

itt: people shit on a small but fucking awesome alternative to overpriced proprietary HD's.

guess what? it will STILL BE A LOT CHEAPER to store shit.

 

[PetriP-TNT]

This.

 

[Dead Prince]

The 360 needs more usb ports. 2 usb sticks, wireless adapter, natal (assuming), HD-DVD. Plus older rock band/guitar hero instruments, 3rd party controllers, arcade sticks.

like you'll be playing and using it all at the same time. wtf.

 

[AlphaTwo00]

I don't want to put words in her mouth but I'm pretty sure she was talking about disc installs.

Oh, yeah. I don't know...

 

[Neuromancer]

I lol'd

Dude HD-DVD is the look and sound of perfect

Spoiler

Wish I had Blade Runner on Blu-Ray instead =\

 

[D4Danger]

in before stealth edits.

itt: people shit on a small but fucking awesome alternative to overpriced proprietary HD's.

guess what? it will STILL BE A LOT CHEAPER to store shit.

damn, caught an edit of an edit. I really should've kept reading before I posted.

 

[Shig]

I'm thinking this move is more intended to be a facilitator for transferring content to the hypothetical 360 Slim without requiring the HDD data transfer kit, as the Slim's HDD may be incompatible with if it has a different form factor.

 

[chubigans]

16GB cap... really? I guess it's better than nothing...

Ah well, better than nothing.

Better than nothing, I guess...

Humph well that's kinda taken the shine off it, still better than nothing I guess.

Still better than nothing, as has been noted.

Better than nothing no?

Also watch for the "Step in the Right Direction!" SKU, not pictured.

 

[Pooya]

The 360 needs more usb ports.

I never tried, but can't you just use a USB hub?

 

[sweetvar26]

Also watch for the "Step in the Right Direction!" SKU, not pictured.

:lol

XBOX 360 - "Jump In" Re-branding to

XBOX 360 - "Better Than Nothing"

 

[Firestorm]

So "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" holds.

 

[FrankT]

I'm thinking this move is more intended to be a facilitator for transferring content to the hypothetical 360 Slim without requiring the HDD data transfer kit, as the Slim's HDD may be incompatible with if it has a different form factor.

Draft will not be pleased.

 

[AlphaTwo00]

Also watch for the "Step in the Right Direction!" SKU, not pictured.

*slow hand clap... :lol

 

[Wazzim]

This isn't to replace MU's but for mandatory installs, the 360 needs those to keep up with blu-ray. (heavy compressed data that will install on the storage device, just like PC games)

 

[EagleEyes]

To those of us who actually use our 360's this is great news. More options than we had yesterday is always welcomed.

 

[clashfan]

I hope they follow through with this update. I have a bunch of usb sticks laying around. This is just great news.

 

[GillianSeed79]

Thats good shit right there.

Wait.... limited to 16GB..... not so good shit.

Well, considering the launch 360's 20Gb HDD was left with like 14GB of storage space after all the system data this is good news. I mean, I just upgraded to a 60GB HDD, but my 20GB last me a few years. Unless you are installing a bunch of games or downloading 360 retail games that's a lot of space.

 

[The Elite]

This isn't to replace MU's but for mandatory installs, the 360 needs those to keep up with blu-ray. (heavy compressed data that will install on the storage device, just like PC games)

What, with only 16GB of storage to use on an external drive? That isn't keeping up with blu-ray.

 

[Grampa Simpson]

I like the way you think.

So do I....except for my own inbuilt memory limitations. I could use a memory upgrade.

 

[Pumpkins]

:lol :lol :lol

 

[GhaleonEB]

Great news. I can hopefully just dump my 50+ Arcade games onto a thumb drive and keep it plugged in, freeing up my nearly full HDD.

 

[Frank "Trashman" Reynolds]

I wonder if this will recognize multiple hard drives in a single external enclosure. It would be cool if I could just create two 16gb NTFS partitions on each of the HDDs (HFS+) in my enclosure. Free 32gb of extra storage space sounds good to me.

 

[Zombie James]

I don't think i've ever gone from this excited to this disappointed by a gaming announcement so quickly. I have this 250GB external drive just sitting here, this would be perfect to install my games to... but that fucking cap, arrrgh.

 

[Wazzim]

What, with only 16GB of storage to use on an external drive? That isn't keeping up with blu-ray.

Well....It's better than nothing.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[adelante]

:lol

XBOX 360 - "Jump In" Re-branding to

XBOX 360 - "Better Than Nothing"

LMAO it makes sense! Goes toe-to-toe with Sony's It Does Everything :lol

 

[EarsOfASnake]

Unless you are installing a bunch of games or downloading 360 retail games that's a lot of space.

16Gb hasn't been 'a lot' of space in nearly a decade, if not more.

 

[theluma]

Cool but TBH the obviouslly artificial 16GB cap just makes it seem even more shady than before.

 

[FrankT]

So do I....except for my own inbuilt memory limitations. I could use a memory upgrade.

Well it may not even have anything to do with that as others have noted this could essentially be MS's stop gap for the 360 slim or whatever it's called.

 

[Mandoric]

Step in the right direction. I wonder why only 16gbs though.

It's piggybacking by emulating a memory card, correct? Probably a limitation of presumed sector/bank size x the number of addressing bits - signed 16-bit addressing of 512kbyte banks maybe?

 

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

Also watch for the "Step in the Right Direction!" SKU, not pictured.

:lol Well played, only you should have changed 60GB to 16GB.

 

[OldJadedGamer]

Dude HD-DVD is the look and sound of perfect

Spoiler

Wish I had Blade Runner on Blu-Ray instead =\

Speaking of "Dude"... say what you will about HD-DVD but it still remains the only format where you can watch The Big Lebowski in HD.

 

[Neuromancer]

This isn't to replace MU's but for mandatory installs, the 360 needs those to keep up with blu-ray. (heavy compressed data that will install on the storage device, just like PC games)

Huh what

Speaking of "Dude"... say what you will about HD-DVD but it still remains the only format where you can watch The Big Lebowski in HD.

Haha awesome (and somehow fitting)

 

[MrPliskin]

Meh.

There's a reason I use my PS3 as my media Center. 1320GB is more useful than my max of 76GB on my 360.

Non-news to me, for now.

 

[Threi]

I got played for a fool

godammn you microsoft/neogaf/threi jumping to conclusions

 

[OldJadedGamer]

Meh.

There's a reason I use my PS3 as my media Center. 1320GB is more useful than my max of 76GB on my 360.

Non-news to me, for now.

360 is the way to go if you have Windows 7. Windows Media Center is like butter and the only reason I keep a windows computer around. Plus, my 360 has 2.5TB of media available... since I stream all of it to each box in the house. I just buy spare broken 360's with busted DVD drives and use them as media center boxes at each TV in the house and network them all together.

 

[MomoPufflet]

"Let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet."

 

[Grampa Simpson]

I love Gizmodo's headline.

LEAK: Xbox 360 to Support Gimped USB Mass Storage [Uncomfirmed]

 

[Gomu Gomu]

Also watch for the "Step in the Right Direction!" SKU, not pictured.

:lol

 

[chubigans]

:lol Well played, only you should have changed 60GB to 16GB.

Yes! Changed.

 

[Marvie_3]

Also watch for the "Step in the Right Direction!" SKU, not pictured.

Perfect. :lol

Awesome news but the cap kinda sucks.

 

[Struct09]

Yea...oh...

Nice I guess. Better than nothing

 

[onken]

Also watch for the "Step in the Right Direction!" SKU, not pictured.

lol

 

[Servbot #42]

Will pendrives will work too? i am curious.

 

[Zombie James]

Will pendrives will work too? i am curious.

Any storage connected to the USB ports.

 

[Kujo]

If I can backup some of my saves this will be good, are thumb drives fast enough to run full installs from though?

 

[jmdajr]

so that's how I can get my game saves off my memory cards and into xbox slim

 

[Ovid]

Cool!!!

 

[Swifty]

I have a USB 3.5 IDE hard drive enclosure that I keep open to hot swap hard drives...

And I have about 5 20 GB IDE hard drives I have laying around doing nothing...

...These are going to be the biggest swappable memory units I have ever used. :lol