Planning to update your 360 as part of the Microsoft Preview Program that is kicking into gear next week so that you can hang out with the cool kids over Twitter and do other awesome stuff that people not in the preview program can't do? Sounds awesome for you. We'll keep our fingers crossed that you get a code. But wait, is that a memory card without a licensed for Xbox 360 logo on it? Oh no, good sir, you are in trouble. Quick get your saved games off it or you won't be able to use them anymore.
In an effort to make more money (I couldn't even think up another reasonable excuse to make a strike through joke with) Microsoft has announced that the coming update for the 360 will ensure that only authorized memory units function with the 360. This means that after your 360 is updated you won't be able to access any saved games on any form of memory that is not officially authorized. Anyone going to have to scramble out to the store and pick up a new 360 memory card that costs twice as much for half the space?
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3:30 PM on 10.18.2009
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No HD and subpar games? Get a Wii! Want questionable console stability and be pricegouged for everything on your console? Get a 360! Care to have poor online experiences and shoddy ports of multiplatform games? Get a PS3!
So many options.
And let this be a lesson to fanboys: companies do NOT care about you, they just want to you buy their crap.
If you check the blog it also said "Hard Drives," so everybody modding external/internal hard drives instead of buying microsoft's uber-expensive one are getting the shaft too.
This is seriously unbelievable, especially with their competition allowing USB sticks and swapping in and out of any laptop harddrive. Do you really think we want your licensed products over the freedom to choose? That's idiotic.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Microsoft needs to rethink their business strategy, or Sony's going to stomp all over them in the next year.
They don´t have the same... smell of devilish intent.
No, you can't, you need to buy microsofts super expensive memory card, they charge around 30 dollars for 512 mb! And it only works with the 360......
I'm sick of ms, once I find somewhere I can sell my 360, I'll fucking do it
No
This sucks, but few people use memory devices anyway. Microsoft could argue that this is to reduce gamesaving etc, but it would be a weak excuse seeing as how their memory devices are glorified USB devices.
Sorry for anybody about to lose out.
I "upgraded" my HDD using an online guide and a spare 120gig WD drive. So now, I suppose, I'm scum and don't deserve to play through the rest of the games I've bought?
You think you got it bad? They charge us at least £30.
This is shit considering how useful the cards are.
@that1dude24
I hope you're not affected, otherwise it would be a grim day for all who don't want to be charged 5 year old prices for their storage.
Actually, the 360's 512mb card is $30, or roughly the price of a regular 16gb flash drive. So it's the same price for 1/32 the space. Fuck Microsoft.
Also $150 for a 120gb HDD is fucking laughable. It's actually hard to find regular harddrives that small anymore. And $150 will get a terabyte or two. I despise Microsoft's arbitrary proprietary bullshit. I'm insulted every time i see my harddrive filling up again because i'm not going to spend $1.20 per GB like a fucking idiot. Things simply do not cost that much.
I was talking about the US price, I live in mexico so prices have a huge difference, those crappy 512mb cards cost around 60dollars here.
The 256 ones cost around 40 dollars
Should that become a reality, I will turn on the boot to disc option and pretend all is well on my dashboard.
The truth? Damn.
I don't need to say anything to condemn Microsoft, they are already kings of dick moves.
Adverts on a premium service? YAY.
If they removed adverts and optionally Avatars for gold users, that would make it almost worth it.
It won't block USB devices
Unless I have missed something and this is even more of a dick move than previously anticipated (by me).
With releases like Datel's sd-card compatible device coming out offering potential aids to piraters, it doesn't surprise me one bit.
Just because before you figured you shouldn't pay what MS asks, and now you find out you have to... quit crying about it. "It's not fair!", well no, life isn't. Boohoo.
This is no big deal to me.
Blocking all USB devices would be insanely stupid, they'll do it when they haven't had any bad ideas for a while. Blocking USB devices has connotations beyond system corruption, it would stop people using the 360 as a multimedia playform without using Windows Media Centre. And that would kill it alltogether because Media Centre is fucking stupid.
Except that no one is fucking with MS, they are just greedy fuck holes who do this shit to further their own agenda. I didn't know using some third party memory card that has 4x the room at less than half the price of MS's options was fucking with them. It's called exploring your options, why pay twice as much for something when there are better options? This is a monopoly on their products, but whatever it's their system and all they are doing is making the PS3 slim more appealing to their already installed user base and people who have yet to buy a next gen system.
That's a little insulting towards the PS3, claiming that it's best advert is a dick move made by microsoft concerning the xbox 360.
I would have thought Uncharted 2 would be a better advert, but what would I know? You're the one posting inflammatory remarks!
This isn't good for anyone.
Dear Microsoft,
Fuck you.