Datel 'disappointed' by Xbox 360's unofficial memory unit lockout

by David Hinkle on Oct 21st 2009 1:30PM

Outlawed off-white accessory news now, with CVG relaying manufacturer Datel's unenthusiastic response to the the forthcoming Xbox 360 Dashboard update, which intends to kill support for unauthorized, third-party memory units. Datel has said that it's "disappointed" by Microsoft's decision, one that it feels will limit consumers in "exercising their freedom of choice." Specifically, their freedom of choosing a memory solution that doesn't come from Microsoft.

What to do if you're the owner of one of these bad boys? Unless you want to stay offline forever, you'll have to back up your data and transfer it to an official memory unit or hard drive. Failing that, you could just lift anchor in protest and set sail for Redmond, but we wouldn't suggest doing that unless you're English and living in 1983.

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Tags: dashboard-update, dashboard-update-fall-2009, datel, memory, memory-card, memory-unit, Microsoft, update, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (104)

Disappointed or fucking pissed?

I think there may be an anti-trust case here.

@captainprotonx

You should change your name to Captain Obvious. Of course, MS wants to make money. Last time I heard they are still a "for-profit" corporation.

What sucks though is that they have a very backward view of things. Google makes a ton of profit by making free things, whereas MS is stuck in a view where their ROI is best achieved by sucking the last drop of blood from their customers.

It sucks they MS are doing this does seem very d-baggish. I bought one of these at best buy cause I figured they were either licensed or done in a way that does not break the rules. And it was 10 bucks more than MS offering for more space. If they broke DMC(Digital Millinium Copywright law)aka had to tamper with MS code to make this work they would be in a world of hurt and it would not be legal. In fact if this was illegal I would imagine MS would have suit against Datel.

So though not illegal for someone to make a memory card for the system MS can also choose to make it not work. I think that that is the definision of dbaggery.

Now if ms would offer decent sized memory cards even at inflated prices cause yes 40 bucks for the 2 gig Datel is way inflated I would not have considered 3rd party.

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