If you’ve been enjoying the benefits of a third-party memory card on your 360, your happy days are numbered. Major Nelson confirmed that the next system update will kill support for those little 4GB flash units that have been saving you benjamins and giving you a way to back up your old saves and profiles.
Obviously storage control is one of the best ways for Microsoft to make money for the Xbox division. A 512MB memory card is still $29.99 and the best bargain for the hard drive is the refurbed 120GB from Gamestop for $99.99. As Microsoft continues down the path of DLC, including games, movies, and TV shows, it better come up with bigger storage options. The largest available is that 250GB hard drive in the Modern Warfare 2 bundle, and it won’t be sold separately, for now at least. When it does become available, I’d expect price to be somewhere in the $175, which is just way too much.
