Xbox available usb storage doubled

[Zappykins]

fillet said:

Zappykins said:

kain_kusanagi said:
MS should just allow for any size. What's the point of a limit? There is no storage limit for Windows so there shouldn't be one for Xbox.

The Xbox operating system is much smaller, much, smaller than Windows.  So they might be pickier about what they support or it could be a licensing thing.

Remember the RAM is only half a gig on the system, and most Windows machines today start with about 8-16 times that.

I promise you, none of your supposition is in any way true. The Xbox 360 could support USB devices up to 2TB with no problem at all. Likely higher if formatted as NTFS and they have a driver for that.

There are no licensing costs of having USB ports and accessing/writing to a file system that Microsoft themself have the patents to.

512MB shared RAM is not a limitation for data transfer over the USB bus, that's just a silly thing to say.

You completely misunderstood.  I'm staying they want to efficient and keep the operating system small.  As understand it is limited to 600 MB, so the rest can be used for games and such.  So it will not be supporting many accessory like Windows does.

The licenses I am referring too are not about ram access but about digital media distribution and make sure people aren't coping things, hacking, etc.  Media licensing and dealing with Hollywood/Recording artist can be very demanding.