There was a lot of noise a few weeks back about the coming support for USB hard drives for the Xbox 360. It’s definitely great news, despite the artificial size limits, but it doesn’t mean Microsoft is ready to get out of the storage business. Quite the opposite, in fact. According to a few items listed at GameStop, Redmond is just getting started in the gaming storage business.
GameStop recently listed two different flash drives for use with the 360 – 8GB and 16GB. As is the case with most Microsoft storage, these drives are ridiculously expensive – $40 and $70, respectively. That’s basically double what you’d normally pay for a flash drive of those capacities.
Granted, there’s no official announcement from Microsoft for the peripherals, so this could be fabrication. I’m willing to bet it’s real, though. There’s nothing Microsoft loves quite like banking off over priced periphs.
