It has been confirmed, the xbox 360 will get an internal memory upgrade to 256MB in order to run the new xbox live feature. Anyone who currently owns the new xbox 360 Arcade console will know that it requires 256MB worth of memory in order to run, if you don't have the right amount of internal memory you will not be able to run it.

Fortunately, the new upgrade costs nothing except for the fact that you have to buy a new console. If you dont want to spend the money on a new console you can always purchase an external memory unit in order to run the xbox live feature. Microsoft was at least good enough to confirm the rumour on several computer game website, "We are always upgrading the consoles more that 1700 internal components. We can confirm that we are focusing our attention to internal memory for the xbox 360 arcade. The physical internal memory is the same size as the previous external memory units - 256MB".

Obviously this does affect the flexibility of the platform as it will need more power to use the xbox live feature. Demos and saved games are not even transferrable between devices on the xbox 360. However it is more of a solid solution from the xbox team to solve the recurrent issue of the arcade version of the xbox not being powerful enough to drive several games. It is so frustrating when a game skips and frame rates are stupidly slow. This is down to the fact that the xbox is not powerful enough to run it.

This is not the first problem that I have personally encountered with the xbox 360. Only last week I received the infamous 'red lights of death' on the front of my xbox 360 which meant the end for that machine. The hardware is completely gone once you see those red lights and I had to return it to the shop, which was really frustrating.

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Posted by dvchwi / Computers