Xbox 360 to Gain USB Storage Support in 2010 System Update

It's about bloody time. According to Joystiq, the Xbox 360 will finally enter 2006 and gain proper support for USB flashdrives for games and saves.

The article reports that an Xbox 360 System Update will be coming this Spring, and once installed the console will then be able to support a USB flashdrive for saving games, installs, and content, though there is a minor catch: Each drive, no matter the size, will be capped at 16 GB of storage space available to the Xbox 360, and the console will only recognize 2 x USB flashdrives at a time (so if you place three into all the USB ports, only the first two will be recognized).

Still, this isn't so bad at all. Plug in two USB flashdrives that are 16 GB or larger, and you'll instantly have 32 GB of additional storage space for any kind of content you'd like. If you manage your content properly, you could have a significant amount of extra save space this way, with two games per USB drive, or one really large game on one drive (like Mass Effect 2). With USB flashdrives being so cheap these days, you can have several and simply swap them out regularly based on the game(s) you want to play.

Basically, those overpriced Memory Units we've bought are about to become obsolete, as is the Memory Unit ports on our consoles.