Why the hell has nobody from Microsoft ever come out and said anything about WHY the prices for this crap is so high? Oh wait, they can't because they know how f'ing ridiculous it is. Honestly, you'd have a lot more people buying extra HD's and peripherals if they were prices reasonably.

Thanks for the warning. Luckily, no one I know uses 3rd party storage.

Not gonna lie, this makes me very upset. Not because I own one, but because you're hurting a market you yourself created, Microsoft.

I would LOVE to buy a new HDD, my 20gb is just not cutting it, but there is no way I'm going to spend the kind of money you're asking for on a hard drive I can only use on the 360.

The ONLY reason I own a memory card is because I found one for $20 on eBay.

Lower the price of your peripherals and less people would feel the need to buy 3rd party. I know I would.

I have the same hard drive since launch. 20 gigs? I would give anything for a new hdd, but my family needs to eat. I got a 500 gig hdd for 130 bucks for my PS3. The MS price tag is just too expensive.

Who would bother buying 3rd party MUs? 2GBs is a ridiculous amount to have for an MU. I still have my 64 MB. All I use it for is profile storage and some gamerpics/themes. The rest is stored on the HDD.

Keep it comin' with the updates Major!

@UnarmedGorilla

I don't believe the Xbox 360 hard drive has any moving parts, thus that would make it a solid-state drive. Solid-state drives are more expensive and don't offer as much capacity than traditional hard drives with moving parts. This is where the price and capacity difference comes into effect.

en.wikipedia.org/.../Hard_disk_drive

en.wikipedia.org/.../Solid-state_drive

Good. I just wish you hadn't given them a heads up. Would've been a nice surprise to the pirates.

GameStop sold me my XB360 MAX Memory 4GB card and the recipt states that card is licensed with Microsoft is this incorrect. I went in with intention to buy the 512 and I was upsold to the Datel for the same price.

Is this another of Microsoft made cars we could only buy Microsoft gas and drive on Microsoft roads?

So... what MU is authorized and which one isn't.

I really love Sony at this point for giving a free choice what MU/HDD to use.

But I have a big question now.

I guess, that like on the original Xbox-HDD there's something like a "code" on the MU that the system can recognize... that would be the only way the 360 can see which one is an authorized MU and which isn't.

Datel and other 3rd-Party-Producers have sold other MUs (at a more reasonable price and not the Greedy M$ Price)... So I guess there has to be a code on them too. Else they can't be rendered useless with the next update.

That would mean that either M$ gave the code to them (thus authorized them to produce the MUs) or they just decompiled the MUs and used the code (which would trigger a big lawsuit).

So which of the MUs out there is actually authorized beside the MU from M$?

When it really comes down to "You can just use the MU from M$ I'll just wait for the EU sueing M$ again for monopolizing... this time on Xbox-Hardware.

Oh well I saved a bunch of money on the Win7-Prof-OEM (cuz it can be bought without a new PC here due to the law) so I might pick up a MU for this tehehe.

Seems like this would violate some anti-trust laws.

The Hitler of the game consoles strikes again

What's an unauthorized storage device? Are you saying we can't use third-party devices, or just that we can't use, uh what is it, devices that are 'tampered with'? I don't use either, but if it's true that you're making all third party storage devices 'not work', and only allowing the official microsoft devices, that's ridiculous! It's also artificially forcing a monopoly for themself, when the microsoft devices are WAY overpriced and everyone knows it. They've been out for how many years at the same price? Other memory devices must have fallen in price considerably more than microsoft is sharing, and to then force that into a monopoly is outrageous. The competition commission would have a field day! Though, maybe the cc only works in England lol. This turned into a bit of a rant, but oh well. I just wanted to say it even if in the end it's only adding to the pile. The people need to speak up in their desire for healthy competition and fair pricing, or else nobody will change anything.

people... use your fuckin heads....

M.N. said UNAUTHORIZED Mem units... not 3rd party.

3rd party things like Datel and Nyko are AUTHORIZED.

Unauthorized means like...  breaking open a mem unit and installing a 4 gig chip or an additional X-hard drive.

fuckin a'

If the product doesn't have the official seal of approval it would be considered unauthorized. Funny how 75% could hate the move and be vocal about it but it never get changed. I only complain to vent so my wife doesn't have to put up with it. This company cares only for your wallet. 240 points for a costume for your avatar.

@procrasturbater.. I looked up the Datel one on amazon and it did not have the microsoft approved seal on it.

Microsoft must really want those monopoly lawsuits. Either make the hard drives cheaper, or let people use external.

quote ZprivateZ: "The Hitler of the game consoles strikes again" LOL!

Will my old Microsoft XBOX 360 64mb memory unit still work?  It's official but MS doesn't make them anymore..

I must have opened a can of worms with DATEL? forums.xbox.com/.../ShowPost.aspx

With all the MS updates lately, pricy avator clothing, wireless, HHD, MU and games on demand same price as retail box version. When my xbox 360 dies one day, I am going to ditch this 360 for good. I own all 3 consoles and MS every moves pisses me off.

Is there actually any 'authorized' storage devices made by other companies?