USB Hard Drive 300x292 USB Storage Coming to Xbox360 in 2010The guys at Joystiq got their hands on an internal MS Memo not meant for the public yet. It spells out that a 2010 Xbox 360 “system update” will allow consumers to save and load game data from USB devices.

According to the document, the USB mass storage device must be at least 1GB and the system will do a compatibility check. “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.” Upon inserting a blank USB storage device, “consumers are offered two choices: ‘Configure now’ or ‘Customize’.” The “Configure now” option will use “the entire device capacity, up to the maximum of 512 MB plus 16 GB” meaning, regardless of the overall size of the device you’re using, the Xbox will only enable 16 GB of usable, non-system storage. The “Customize” option will allow you to “preserve some pre-existing, non-console data on the device” such as music.

It’s a start at least. It would be nice if they didn’t put a cap on the drive size. It would also be nice if they just sold us a hard drive enclosure and let the consumer put whatever size drive they want in the system. Hell I would probably buy full Download games if I had a 2TB hard drive attached.

This news combined with a rumor that a “Slim” version of the XBOX360 will be out soon have speculators thinking that the Xbox Memory card will be getting the axe.

Like I said. It’s a start.

UPDATE: After talking to Dan I’ve Reconsidered The Situation a bit. Check out my editorial here.

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