With the Xbox Series X hyping up its ability to play bigger games quicker thanks to its internal 1TB SSD, getting into a game is going to be a walk in the park. An entire terabyte is a lot of digital real estate, but even in this day and age it’s not enough space for a thriving library of games that’ll easily stretch that limit to the breaking point. The solution? Memory cards! Sort of.
You’re going to need something a bit bigger than the standard 4gb microSD card if you want to download Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, as it’ll be an 8GB purchase.
Some PlayStation Vita games require a memory card to even run - and the proprietary memory cards for the system are hellishly expensive.
The memory cards for the PS Vita have been exposed and unfortunately it's yet another proprietary format.
The last Xbox 360 update blocked unauthorised 3rd party memory units from functioning making only the exorbitantly expensive official Microsoft units viable. While Microsoft named no names, there’s one 3rd party manufacturer that’s been particularly put out by this : Datel, who have been supplying memory units with larger capacities and cheaper prices than those by Microsoft. Datel, it seems, …
Now I like the fact that Microsoft aggressively chase pirates and go out of their way to try and make their life as difficult as possible. I have a slightly irrational hatred for pirates and you won’t see me agreeing to any of their stupid reasons anytime soon. So when Microsoft announced that they are now banning all unauthorised 3rd …
You may recall that newer Xbox 360 arcade units were shipping with internal memory instead of external memory cards. It seems that Microsoft may have surreptitiously doubled that storage from a paltry 256Mb to a slightly more respectable 512Mb. Xbox Scene is reporting that the new Xbox 360 motherboards – manufactured in April 2009 – feature the same, somewhat more …
Microsoft South Africa have confirmed that they will be participating in the Arcade and Core upgrade system put in place to ready users of Xbox 360’s who lack any sort of storage hardware. Pricing is still to be finalised but it’s great to know that it is happening. As for Live support in South Africa, well that’s a story for …
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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