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The Xbox 360 is getting a big update early next month, bringing a little something that’ll stop gamers looking over the fence at the PS3 in envy: USB memory stick support to have you stashing profiles, game saves, demos and more on any flash stick you have lying around. Got an Xbox 360 Arcade? It just got a lot more useful.


Microsoft’s Xbox 360 mouthpiece Major Nelson has posted on his blog that 6 April will see the roll out of an Xbox 360 update gamers have long been waiting for. With it installed you’ll be able to use USB memory sticks to keep all your game data, instead of paying through the nose for an official Xbox 360 memory unit – which only comes in measly 512MB max capacity anyway.

There are some restrictions though: you’ll only be able to use two registered flash drives, they’ll need to be formatted properly with some menu fiddling and you can only use a maximum partition of 16GB on each (And minimum of 1GB). But that still gives you a potential 32GB of free extra storage, and Major Nelson even promises you’ll see improved performance running data from them, as flash memory is faster than a spinning mechanical hard drive.
Intriguingly, Microsoft has also promised an official Xbox 360 USB stick is coming in May, made in partnership with SanDisk. What benefits it’ll have beyond being properly configured are unclear, but we’d guess some sort of surcharge is involved.

If you’ve got a PS3 though you can still have the last laugh on this one: you can simply put a new hard drive into it to upgrade.

Source - Ben Sillis - You must login or register to view this content.