By now, many Xbox 360 owners have updated their systems and gained the ability to use usb flash drives as storage alternatives for their consoles. But the Xbox 360 usb push has only just begun. Starting May 5, 2010, Sandisk will begin releasing official Xbox 360 usb flash drives that are pre-configured and ready to work straight out of the box. You can use any usb flash drive with the Xbox 360, but other brands and types will require the user to configure them first.

Sandisk has announced there will be two variations, a $34.99 8gb drive and a $69.99 16gb drive. Both usb flash drives will also come with a one month Xbox LIVE Gold membership, and early adopters who purchase the drives directly from Sandisk will get a lanyard as well…

USB flash drive support is coming to the Xbox 360 sooner, rather than later. On March 18, 2010, Gamertell reported that Microsoft was working on an Xbox 360 firmware update that would provide USB storage unit support for the Xbox 360. The official release window for the update then an incredibly vague Spring 2010. Now Microsoft has announced that the update will arrive April 6, 2010.

This means that people with a spare USB flash drive will be able to use that to store their game data, saves, downloadable content and more. The only downsides are that you can only store up to 16gb on a drive and that you can only register two usb storage devices per Xbox 360…

It’s very difficult to have a game that relies so heavily on extra downloadable content such as Rock Band 2 on the Wii after seeing what its PS3 and Xbox 360 counterparts have to offer.

Since the Wii doesn’t have a hard drive, owners have been forced to buy SD cards to store all the extra content they purchase. Nintendo will debut the music store for Rock Band 2 in 2009 and SanDisk is offering a way to store those songs if there is no room in the Wii’s internal memory. It may be a standard 2GB SD card but it is labeled with the Rock Band 2 and…