Major Nelson confirmed yesterday that this November's winter dashboard update for the will lock-out third-party memory card units - a move peripheral maker Datel has described as 'disappointing'.

"We are following this issue and awaiting the outcome like everyone else," a Datel representative told CVG.

"If the blog is to be taken at face value then we're disappointed to see that are taking these steps to prevent customers from exercising their freedom of choice.

"Everyone is looking for ways to make their cash go further at the moment and we believe that Max Memory offers a good value, high capacity, alternative to the official Memory Unit."

What are your thoughts on this, players?

By Luke Guttridge