Mon, Oct 19, 2009 | 23:13 BST
360 update to ditch non-MS memory units
Nelson’s confirmed that unMicrosoft 360 storage devices won’t work with the machine when its November software update goes live.
“One of the changes is that unauthorized Memory Units will no longer work with the Xbox 360,” said the exec.
“If you’ve moved your profile or saved games onto one to ‘back it up,’ you’d better move it back onto an authorized Xbox 360 storage device prior to taking the update.
“If you continue to use an unauthorized Memory Unit after the update, you will not be able to access your stored profile or saved games.”
Nice.
For a look at some of the update’s features in action, take a look at this.
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Posted in: Hot, Microsoft, Xbox 360
Tags: hard drive, major nelson
19 comments
#1
Gekidami
19/10/09, 10:13 pm
Jeez, talk about a lame way to force people to buy your ‘official’ crap.
#2
SilentLoner
19/10/09, 10:19 pm
as so microsoft tighten their belts
#3
freedoms_stain
19/10/09, 10:19 pm
This is one of the things I hate about the 360.
You can buy over 500GB worth of high quality SATA2 internal 3.5″ hard drive for MS piffling 60GB and over 1TB for their 120GB.
And why? For that sleek MS casing?
#4
Mattigan
19/10/09, 10:24 pm
Lol, glad I picked my 120GB up for £30 when I had the chance!
#5
Jadeskye
19/10/09, 10:25 pm
Yeah theres no reason i couldn’t just get a 2tb drive and connect it other then greed on ms’s part.
freedoms i still hate you btw.
#6
Dralen
19/10/09, 10:31 pm
Well that just really fooking crap!
#7
Psychotext
19/10/09, 10:36 pm
I’m sure we had this news before, so I’ll say what I believe I said then…
…I had no idea there were non MS memory devices available for the 360.
#8
Patrick Garratt
19/10/09, 10:40 pm
Bollocks. I couldn’t find it.
/looks again
#9
freedoms_stain
19/10/09, 10:50 pm
Jadeskye, you can lick my mage’s staff!
Dragon Age innuendo, ba-doom-tish!
#10
mescalineeyes
19/10/09, 10:53 pm
if Pat can’t find it, it’s worth a double post. I guess people should know and go out to buy whatever they need before the inevitable update hits and makes their stuff useless and their data unnecessarily hard to recover.
#11
mescalineeyes
19/10/09, 10:54 pm
Also, if I understand correctly, you can still do the thing where you flash a SATA hard-drive with the correct firmware and put it in the HD bay, this is just about those 4GB memory units.
#12
Patrick Garratt
19/10/09, 11:00 pm
Sorry, I’m being a spastic. It’s not hard drives, it’s third-party memory units he’s talking about. I’ve edited it.
#13
The Benny
19/10/09, 11:16 pm
You’re being a LEGENDary spastic though, so it’s okay.
#14
doctorstrange
19/10/09, 11:18 pm
Either way it sucks
#15
Khanivor
19/10/09, 11:26 pm
Maybe Spazy McSpazerton should think about handing back his gong
#16
Uncontested
19/10/09, 11:47 pm
M$ fucking the little guy yet again, go figure.
#17
pracer
20/10/09, 12:07 am
Dumb freaken move. I don’t know after reading this, maybe the 100usd for a year of LIVE might be true after all.
#18
frostquake
20/10/09, 6:44 am
Well lick a Sheeps Weenie till it is Purple…Wait they are purple??? Or is that Pigs…Oh wait Pigs weenies are cork screwed…Wow been awhile since I been on the farm..MS why oh why won’t you let us buy third party hardware…They would develop Terabyte Hard Drives for us at the price of your 120s and we would spend tons of MS Points buying Tons of More Crap from you, don’t you see it is a win win situation??
#19
Blerk
20/10/09, 8:14 am
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an official memory card, never mind a third-party one.