Xbox 360 to add USB storage support this year

Joystiq is reporting today that "USB Mass Storage Device Support" should hit the Xbox 360 console sometime within 2010, most likely with the upcoming Spring 2010 dashboard update.

Citing a document written by a "senior software development engineer," the support will allow gamers to save and consequently load game data from USB devices, a much wanted feature.

With the support available, gamers can download Arcade games, DLC or other content right to their storage device, although it is unclear what capacity cards will be made available (minimum must be 1GB and max must be 16GB). The source also claims that "installation of a full disc-based title" is also a possibility, although the disc will still need to remain in the tray, for authentication purposes.

In regards to the minimum and maximum posted above, the document says: "The system partition occupies 512 MB of space, and by default the consumer partition occupies the remainder of the device capacity, or 16 GB, whichever is smaller."

Confirmation, pic via Joystiq:



http://www.joystiq.com/2010/03/18/xbox-360-gaining-usb-storage-support-in-2010-update/

I dont like how its limited to 16GB per USB device...
Otherwise my 500GB HDD would be perfect

If this does happen it'll be the usual "You can do it, you just have to use our branded, massively overpriced official memory sticks.".

Future games to be released on Usb to prevent disc swapping of multiplatform games that won't fit on 1 dvd?

PlatinumSamusUK wrote:If this does happen it'll be the usual "You can do it, you just have to use our branded, massively overpriced official memory sticks.".

Well that's business! They have to profit from these things >_>

There's making a profit and there's massive overpricing to take advantage of your consumer. The latter holds true in this case. At least you can actually use non-official memory sticks, which utterly amazes me.