Xbox 360 USB Sticks Will Likely Be Overpriced
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Oh so much this!300lb. Samoan said:
I was lucky and bought mine with everything for it from my neighbour because he never played the bloody thing. To actually buy a full xbox 360 elite console, new and with all the bells and whistles I was looking at £300+. So how glad was I when I took it off my neighbour's hands for £140.
I do not understand your ire. The statement refers to any videogame company and is not "dragging Sony in." If you want to get into it though, the Sony PS2 memory card is still $25 at retail. There was no USB alternative for the PS2, the GameCube, the PS1, etc.SaintWaldo said:
I'm not bashing Sony. I love the freedom Sony allows with hard drives on the PS3. But I also understand why all videogame first-parties need to make money off of accessories.
The BenQ dvd drives they chose, which caused alot of damaged discs, may not have been designed or built by Microsoft but they still chose a cheaper unit to put in their machines.Virgil said:
I have never been wholely convinced the x360s problems completely stemmed from a design failure, placing a heatsink on a component that generates heat is common sense yeah, but why put a large one on when you can do smaller for cheaper and will keep the machine running within the design parameters?
SaintWaldo said:
Someone really likes Sony >_>.SaintWaldo said:
OT: I'm not really surprised about them costing that much. I'm just going to use my 8GB one that I have lying around, also I have a 250GB HDD, i'm just going to use the usb drive to move the files from my old HDD.
Great but then why on earth would anyone buy Microsoft's then? Unless you genuinely didn't know that a regular USB memory stick would work then I can't imagine a person buying oneVirgil said:
If they had any sense and could hold back on their greed at all, they'd make their prices the same as those of other 8 and 16gb USB drives. Then people would buy the 360 branded ones for the sake of already being formatted. Seriously, I wonder if their marketing guys have any sense.Tom Goldman said:No, sorry if I gave you that idea. It means that you shouldn't buy Microsoft's drives and just use your ownnewguy77 said:
In my experience, the Microsoft accessories for the Xbox are generally better. But I don't think they'll be THAT much better. However, it would help me keep my flashdrives organized.
i know a place where i can get a 10 gig drive for 10 dollars. I will pass ob those official ones. im happy microsoft is making this an option now. it means i can get an arcade system and not be screwed for storage.
Oh they do. They have the good sense to bank on their brand name. People will buy these just because it has the XBox logo on it because they want to be sure that it will be compatible with the system. The floor people at Best Buy will probably have a hey-day with these, just like they used to with the much more horribly over-priced memory cards (such as in Infernal_Me's example higher up the page). Questionable morals perhaps, but certainly good sense.Mr. Mike said:If they had any sense and could hold back on their greed at all, they'd make their prices the same as those of other 8 and 16gb USB drives. Then people would buy the 360 branded ones for the sake of already being formatted. Seriously, I wonder if their marketing guys have any sense.Tom Goldman said:No, sorry if I gave you that idea. It means that you shouldn't buy Microsoft's drives and just use your ownnewguy77 said:
This hardly seems like news. Unfortunately this will sell. Although I will laugh at the suckers who buy it. Don't know why you mentioned sony though. Seriously the PS3 can use any SATA 2.5 drive and it's supported flash drives from word go.
The Xbox doesn't run Windows, and wireless networking devices don't have a single input standard like flash drives or keyboards. You can't really expect MS to create and load custom drivers for a bunch of different devices onto their game console.300lb. Samoan said:
You can work around the issue easily enough with any generic wireless access point. I used a Linksys Wireless-N access point for a while, until I switched to an ethernet-over-power set, which gives a more reliable connection for streaming video in my house.
Other than not knowing any better, the main reason is that it will be easier and guaranteed to work. While MS will let you use any drives, the performance between USB flash drives is not equal [http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/information/usb-novelty-flash-drive-roundup-36-tested-and-compared/], and I fully expect that after the feature is released there will be reports online of some drives not working well (particularly the discount ones). It's unlikely that the branded drives will have that kind of problem though, as they'll be made to certain specifications. For some people, that peace of mind is worth the extra money.The Rockerfly said:
And you'll probably see these drives sold online cheaper than the list price found at GameStop - you always do. They'll likely be bundled with the console as well. Maybe they'll end up on Woot too
Yeah - it's a system update that's supposed to roll out next month.Radelaide said:
Hmm, I wonder if the USB support will let me hook up a mouse and keyboard... probably not, but man, that would be awesome.
You can hook up a keyboard. It works for sending messages over Xbox Live, editing your profile, that sort of thing. You can't use them for gaming though. As far as I know, the Xbox SDK doesn't even provide the input handlers for mouse/keyboard, so a developer couldn't build in support even if they wanted to. I know the XNA libraries don't support them for the Xbox.DudeMan1031 said:
360 drives aren't even propietary in most senses of the word. They're standard off the shelf 2.5" SATA drives, MS just use some proprietary code to ID lock the console and the drive.SaintWaldo said: