Davnes007 said:
Why would using a USB stick be beneficial when switching between TV's?
If I'm playing a game on the smaller sized TV in my bedroom, where I usually play, and I think, Hmm, I sure wouldn't mind playing this on the 54'' in the living room right now... I can pull out the USB drive and the game disc, go down stairs, and put them into my roommate's Xbox that is hooked up to the TV in the living room. Later, if my room mate comes home and would like to watch or play something on his one and only TV, I can pull the USB drive and game disc out again, take them back upstairs to my room and continue playing.
Prior to this setup, I used to play games at my girlfriend's place a lot, so I had been using the USB stick setup for game saves for a long time, I'd just keep my profile and my saves on the USB stick, could pull them out and go at anytime and have everything with me. I've only had it get corrupted once before, and it was easy to recover the data. This time I have no idea what happened, but it happens every time I try to keep everything on a USB drive now. I've tried three different drives since then with the same issues resulting. Not sure what is up. Used that method flawlessly for almost three years. The crazy little conspiracy theorist in me says MS is doing it intentionally so that I'll buy Xbox LIVE again and use the cloud save system instead. Incidentally, it is also telling me that gremlins stole my hairbrush.