Bye-bye Third Party Memory Cards

We all know that the new 360 update will feature Twitter and Facebook, but what you might not know is that it is possible that you might be getting screwed over as well. Well, you and anyone else that uses third party memory cards like this instead of Microsoft ones such as this. Obviously the companies that sell the third party memory cards are very upset and you should be too!

Lets say you realize that you need a new memory card and head over to Amazon.com. This is what you will find:

Xbox 360 Max Memory Card 2GB by Datel = $39.99
Xbox 360 Memory Unit 512MB by Microsoft Software = $39.99 $24.99

Hm. The actual list price is the same but there is a huge difference between 2GB and 512MB. Once this update goes live users of third party cards will get a warning saying that they most transfer everything from the memory card to the internal or risk no longer being able to access the data on the card. 

So, what happens once Microsoft has the monopoly on their already overpriced product? They only time a monopoly is good, imo, is when I am the one that has a hotel on Boardwalk.