Upcoming Xbox 360 update locking out 'unauthorized' Memory Units

This is pretty dirty. Maybe it is time for another player in the market other than the big three, somebody who actually knows how to keep their customers happy. I guess their motto is "Sick it to the man".

I honestly had no idea there were third-party memory units for the 360 until I heard this. Well, it won't affect me.

So Microsoft is using a software update to enforce a monopoly on memory peripherals. Sounds like a lawsuit to me.

inorder to boost their marketplace sales is to have MORE SPACE


FUCK YOU MICROSOFT

I going to sale my shit and buy a PS3

First of all guys i don't use memory cards so why should that affect me although i do agree with the lowering the price of bigger hard drives i want the 120g but the cost is a lil too steep for my blood,you would think microsoft would want to keep the consumers of there products happy but everyone knows that won't happen.....maybe when Sony makes a big move like that,after all they do like to copy each other just look at the price drop.

This has nothing to do with corporate greed, or a desire to sell 1st-party accessories.

Microsoft has a vested interest in ensuring that there is no game save hacking or manipulation going on within the Xbox Live service. After all, it really trivializes the work a legit user did in getting their gamerscore, when a hacker/cheater is able to get the same score with very little effort.

Locking out unauthorized storage devices is a way of ensuring this doesn't happen. Since most of these storage devices are built on an open architecture, this means the data can be accessed and manipulated through a PC. It is in MS's best interest (as well as the overwhelming majority of gamers who play by the rules) for MS to take active steps to limit/eliminate the ability of gamers to access Xbox data from any device other than an Xbox.

Sure it's crappy but at least they told us before it just happened. I guess this would be the silver lining?

As someone before said, I didn't even know they existed. I just use mi HDD.

Ok, is this a new trend among first party companies now? To block out competing third party companies within their consoles' ecosystems? First Sony makes the PSPGo, download only, effectively doing away with GAME retailers (B&M and online) in the future if they plan on moving completely to DLC format with a future "PSP 2 Go" and making Sony the only outlet for the games. Now Microsoft disables third party, totally legit, ways of saving gamesaves in a questionable effort to "thwart piracy" (which seems to be the fallback excuse they use these days).

Hypothesizing where this trend is going, I suppose the ideal of these companies is to keep everything close to their chests, keeping everything under their own control (all for profit reasons of course, in this day and age greed is not only good it is the only option and it should be ruthless). I'd imagine revoking licenses for third parties to make their own accessories for the systems is probably not out of the question if they don't mind pissing off a bunch of 'em. Weathering that storm they go ahead and sell their own first party devices without competition. That or buy them up. The ultimate ideal would be to buy up third parties or their properties so in the end there is only the one company selling the system, games and accessories. Undoing what was thought to be a good thing in the past in the days of Atari and NES. Letting third parties create their own games or accessories and giving the first parties a little chunk of change as per the license.

Not cool.

Anyone who installed a custom HDD is technically using an unauthorized memory unit. People are upset because of the principal behind the decision. Thats what you aren't getting. I don't really care personally but from the comments it's pretty easy to see why this is upsetting to some of the users.

Key word here folks is UNAUTHORIZED. Meaning non-licensed products. Third parties can make memory cards, they just have to get a license to do so.

I can't wait until they stamp out turbo controllers.

You're talking about stuff like flash carts and the like? I thought this was about previously legit third party memory cards (since a picture of a well known company's memory card was shown), taking "unauthorized" in quotes as a "so they say" bit of sarcasm by the Joystiq writer (you probably can make a legit SD card based memory card by following the rules and not get bit by updates). Yeah, if hacks are made then it's totally the fault of the company that did the hacks. They should have known what they were getting into and people shouldn't buy from those companies. At least not until after the lifespan of the current generation. I only bought my SD Gecko memory card long after Nintendo moved to the Wii (mainly to see if I could get Linux and homebrew to run). I totally understand that. Never pay for a hack or mod for current gen hardware. Unless you don't mind flushing money down the toilet every time the firmware for the system is updated or plan never to update your system again. Which means ending your future gaming purchases and rendering your console a system frozen in time.

@ johnnynumber5: I'm not so much mad at Sony for creating the PSP Go as I am thinking about the fact that this could still go either way and wondering where this is going. Right now I look at my PSP 1000 as a retro-Go because if most games are going to be offered online and they'll still work with it why not play those games as DLC on it? It's not like I can't. I can buy bigger MemorySticks. :) I'm just wondering what this signifies for future handhelds and consoles and the market. It's curious behavior and trends in business plans.

And as for the vouchers. They seem kind of odd to me. But I guess they're no different then selling game time cards for WoW in Best Buy. What gets me is there's no physical product being sold. So shouldn't the prices be the same from the PSN store to the B&M store? Can there be discounts on the vouchers? And what's being discounted? Can the vouchers be sold as used like a used game? lol I mean, if I buy an iTunes card that says $15 I've never once not paid the exact $15 (+tax or not) and paid less because Rainbow decided to sell them at a discount. They seem kind of set in price. Do they do that and I've just not noticed the discounts? And aren't vouchers kind of pointless then if it's easy enough to just buy straight from the PSN Store while sitting near a WiFi point? There has to be an incentive to buy the vouchers...

Anyway, staying from the point of the article. lol

So I've been suffering with this 500mb while there were 2gb ones? Understandable but stupid update. The best solution right now is Hard Drive.

Now that sucks. It sounds like they're trying to monopolize the market with exclusive peripherals supplied by them.

I just kept running outta space so I bought a 2 GB Max Memory from Datel and like it cuz I can carry around my Gamertag and some good arcade games and play at friends places even if they don't have the game or are even on xbox live. I will not let this go without a fight.

Time to track down my reciept and return mine to best buy wanted one and it was only 10 bucks more for 4 x the storage, Dick move indeed Microsoft.

I just wish they would be clear on whether or not hacked hard drives are included in this or if they're only targeting the datel cards.

Microsoft doesn't care about Xbox 360 owners.
http://accidentalninja.net/post/217272675/microsoft-doesnt-care-about-xbox-360-owners-and-what

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