The Wasabi X360S is an Xbox 360 Slim HDD Loader and the third to hit the market. The design of the Wasabi X360S looks similar to how the Blaster CK3 connected to consoles and overall looks like it will be a nice integration with the Xbox 360 Slim consoles. While these have only just been announced and their basic feature set we have at the bottom of this page the Wasabi X360S looks like it will be a decent product for the Xbox 360 Slim owners out there.

The price is not 100% confirmed as yet but it looks like it will be around the same price as the X360Key, once we have confirmed price and secured some stock we will start taking pre-orders. At this stage we have not been given information on the Wasabi X360S release date, but as soon as we get this information we will of course write it up.

Team Wasabi are most famous for their Wasabi DX chip for Wii, for those that know their Wii stuff like we do here at modsupplier.com you will know that the Wasabi DX in the end was one of if not the best Wii chips just behind the Wode, while not as popular as the DriveKey the Wasabi team certainly held their own and produced updates as needed and overall was a quality product, we are sure the same thing will be able to be said for the Wasabi X360S and they basic features that have already been announced make it look like it will follow in the footsteps of their former products.

There are two mostly interesting things about the Wasabi X360S, the first is the fact they have dropped USB and are using an e-Sata connection instead, the reason we have been given is that there is so much more bandwidth available with e-sata compared to USB and thus will end up in faster loading times. We guess this can go two ways, some people will love it because of the load times with e-sata and others won’t like it as much as it limits the range of storage devices that can be used with the Wasabi X360S, in the end we guess the market will decide which it prefers.

The second interesting feature is they too are saying with a future firmware update they are planning to implement a ripping feature as well, this would be one of the most sort after features as it means people don’t have to mess around with the PC and Kreon drives to make legitimate backups of their original games to use with the Wasabi X360S, so we will be very interested to see who is first to implement this feature to their loader devices.

At this stage there has been no news to exactly which of the Xbox 360 Slim drives the Wasabi X360S will be able to emulate, we would imagine the Lite-On’s will be first supported but we are just guessing at this stage, as for the Hitachi this may take a little longer as even other teams have not implemented support for this drive just yet.

Features include:

Features coming soon:

•     Xbox Live compatibility
•     Dumping of X360 ISO's from original discs

Vedio: Wasabi 360 Ultra Demonstration - AP25 and XGD3

Vedio: Wasabi360 Ultra running on- XGD3 & AP2.5 defeated - Gears of War 3, Driver, Warhammer

News: Wasabi x360 shipping, at our shop starting Monday! Wasabi x360s is delivering to us their first pieces of their new blockbuster, and we started shipping, meaning shops will start receiving stocks on Monday, and everyday after. For the Wasabi x360 for FAT model, Wasabi x360 will start shipping Monday.

The Wasabi X360 is another Xbox 360 HDD loader to hit the market, the Wasabi X360 is designed to be used on the older Phat Xbox 360 consoles and connects to the top of the console in a similar fashion to the way the Blaster CK3 did. Like the X360Key the Wasabi X360 seems to boast a decent set of features and it looks like the price is going to be around the same, we won’t list the final price until we have secured some stock and when ready we will start taking pre-orders for it. At this stage only a basic set of features have been announced which we have listed at the bottom of this page, as more news or features are announced we will of course update this page with any info we think is worth talking about. The Wasabi X360 release date has not been set at this stage, when we receive a general idea on the release date we will post it up on this page as well.

For those that know their Wii chips the Wasabi DX was one of the best chips for Wii, even though it was not at popular as the DriveKey the Wasabi team really did come up with a great chip that reviled DriveKey and we think they are going to have a good crack at pulling off something just as decent for the Xbox 360 with the Wasabi X360. Interestingly enough they are also boasting a future feature of the X360 will have the rip feature, this of course is a much wanted feature from any Xbox 360 HDD Loader and we hope that team Wasabi can pull that off as well. So hold onto your hat’s people as it looks like things are just warming up, soon as we have more information on the Wasabi X360 this page will be updated.

One thing that we here at modsupplier.com found interesting about the Wasabi X360 was the fact they have ditched USB in favour of E-Sata, so we guess calling it a USB loader is not totally accurate and it would more be considered to be a HDD loader. The reason the team gave for this was the massively more bandwidth that was available through e-Sata compared to USB, now in reality we are not really sure how much difference this is going to make since you only really need a certain amount for emulation and then anything over is just faster loading, but time will tell if USB or e-SATA is the preferred connection for devices such as the Wasabi X360. One thing we can see is that e-sata is going to limited the range of storage devices that can be used with the Wasabi X360, so only time will tell if that’s something that worries perspective buyers or not.

Keep your eyes on this page for updates on news, features & release date for the Wasabi X360.

Wasabi x360 Features include:

Features coming soon:

• Xbox Live compatibility
• Dumping of X360 ISO's from original discs

Video: Wasabi 360 Ultra Demonstration - AP25 and XGD3

Video: Wasabi360 Ultra running on- XGD3 & AP2.5 defeated - Gears of War 3, Driver, Warhammer