USB memory support for Xbox 360 coming April 6

I don’t like the 16G limits.

And I keep reading about game saves, demos, and “More”…

Does that mean movies/TVs shows?

And does the saved stuff on flash drive need to be varified online before it can be used(checking liscencing)? If so that is going to put a huge damper on what we can do with it, or where we can use it.

I can’t wait to die laughing when we find out how much that 360-branded flash drive is going to cost.

This is good news, anyway – now I can make backups of all my XBLA/DLC stuff.

OMG, finally. Fuck the ridiculous 512MB cards! But why only 16GB’s? I wonder if it’s a limitation of the xbox OS or an artificial limitation put in place by MS?

Artificial, for sure. How would they ever flog you hugely-overpriced HDDs if you could just buy a dirt-cheap USB one and plug it in?

WOW are you kidding me. The 360 could never do this. I do admit I was surprised to be able to connect a 1.5 TB external HDD to that jet engine and see it work just fine.

Now if they can only allow continuous playback and support more codecs it might be an entertainment hub

Wait…ever since it’s release i could insert my Iriver Mp3 player via USB or Lacie Little Disc external HDD….

Yes but you couldn’t copy game content onto it.

They could always read media content from USB devices, you just couldn’t write to them or copy things from them onto your 360′s HDD. Now you can.

Anyway, the biggest point of interest about all this is that it’s a pretty decent hint that the leaked “360 slim” stuff is real.

This mean Microsoft are finally going to support their own modern file systems exFat and NTFS otherwise the 4GB limit of FAT32 is going to come into effect unless they starting splitting files apart.

The devices have to be specially formatted before you can use them for 360 content. You can’t just stick 360 content onto a normal FAT or NTFS stick.

Niiiiice….

So that means we can copy :

- Demos
- Savegames
- DLC

Etc on it?

This is actually really cool, since I don’t want to dish out for a 60/120/250 GB HDD but 16GB should do me fine (with possible expansion up to 32GB).

It is also unexpected from Microsoft, because any stick can be used not just the almost-certainly-overpriced Microsoft licensed one.

I’ll be using this to backup my profile since mine is currently corrupted and I can’t link a Windows Live ID to it. If I lose my profile, I lose all of my saved games and purchased content that was brought over from my old system. I really wish that they’d get around to fixing that problem.

So can I now copy the xbox game trailers from the 360 HDD to an external device and then copy them to my PS3 HDD.

I’m only asking because I collect all the game trailers and one day I’m hoping to watch them over again when the PS9 releases and say damn those graphics sucked back then Of course I’ll be like 78 and half blind if that day ever comes

Mauller, you should call Xbox support. that does not sound right. I had my profile corrupt, I deleted it and re-downloaded a fresh one via the recovery screen. End of problem,

No, because the PS3 won’t be able to read the 360′s file system.

I thought they were WMV files. I could just convert them on my PC can’t I? I just love how the PS3 can playback 15 sec of each trailer and I would love to start a 360 only video folder. BTW I have over 830 game trailers at their highest released resolution that comes up to a grand total of 196GB

The partition on the USB stick used by the Xbox won’t be readable on PCs, although I am sure someone will develop some software which allows you to read/write to it.

@Mortiferus

I tried that, I went to xbox support first, they told me to call windows live support, I called windows live support and the told me to call my ISP, I didn’t bother calling my ISP because that didn’t make sense. I called xbox and I got one of their higher up support techs who worked with me for about a week and finally just said that my live id was no longer associated with my xbox account even though all their records show that it is.

I can’t even log into the xbox.com website because it says that it’s a new live id. I can’t log into my account management on the xbox either. I also can’t recover my profile through my xbox. I don’t know how or why but my account is borked. For my troubles the xbox tech gave me 5 codes, 4 3 month xbox live sub codes and 1 200 ms points code. They told me to just start over. To hell with that. The account still logs in to xbox live and I can still play online and everything. It’s just weird. I should try calling again this weekend to see if there’s any new developments.

Oh boy, great. I just want to keep these game trailers,behind the scenes,and dev interviews for gaming historic reasons…you know just in case there really is a Fallout and the internet doesn’t exist anymore.

50 years from now we might all be in our own vaults and the only gaming history I’ll be able to show are the videos that end with PlayStation at the end of the trailer. Its bad enough I’m labeled as a PS fanboy now, but 50 years later too, WTH

If you’ve got a large HDD I’m not sure of the benefit here. OK, putting your profile on there would be handy, as that really does speed shit up (as the onboard MU Jaspers show).

But game saves? Demos? Will it really improve things at all? Surely we’re talking milliseconds here? Unless you can install games to it instead of the HDD?

Will we be able to:

1) Store demos on the USB?
2) Install games onto USB?

I think USB drives larger than 120G cost more than 360 HDDs?

I use my USB flash drive on my PS3 ALL THE TIME. Movies, pictures, music, I’m REALLY surprised to hear the 360 didn’t have this ability before…

Oh, and BTW, all USB drives are FAT32.

@18
“The partition on the USB stick used by the Xbox won’t be readable on PCs, although I am sure someone will develop some software which allows you to read/write to it.”

I would be surprised if you are correct. I copy things back and forth from my PC to my PS3 all the time (then again, there’s no partition created specifically for the PS3).

My XBOX 360 wouldn’t even acknowledge my SONY MP3 player.

Quite amusing really.

@24 You can use a USB stick for movies, pictures and music on the 360 now. You always could. They’re adding in the ability to transfer save files, profiles and things like that that used to require memory cards.

@25
Yet i think it’ll see a PSP just fine.

@26. Oh, my bad. Well that seems pretty pointless.

but it wont charge a Dualshock3 controller, something a PC or MAC will do.

Dualshock charges on my 360

Must just be mine then, SONY should really add the always on USB feature in the next PS3 firmware update.

Good news, now i hope they just release some codecs to the console.

Havent seen a confirmation yet on…whether if we can copy

DLC and demos to the USB sticks now, can we?
Cause that sure would save me some money for not buying
a 120GB HDD.

so use of USB (which should have been ADDED in the first place) will cancel out the need of using memory card.

what a waste.