Xbox 360 Arcade units confirmed to include 256MB onboard memory

As a follow up to our report on the Jasper-chipped Xbox 360s, Xbox 360 Fanboy obtained a statement from Microsoft confirming that system units in the Arcade bundle are being outfitted with a 256MB internal memory and will no longer include a memory card:

We are constantly updating the console’s more than 1700 internal components. We can confirm that we are moving to internal memory for the Xbox 360 Arcade. The physical internal memory is the same size as the previous external memory units – 256MB.

This means that Arcade owners will have no means of having portable data which, depending on how you spin it, could be…