Topic: Xbox Live Arcade: Games File Size Limit to be Increased (Read 214 times)

Xbox-Scene · « **on:** May 20, 2008, 09:55:00 PM »

Xbox Live Arcade: Games File Size Limit to be Increased
Posted by XanTium | May 20 23:19 EST | News Category: Xbox360

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From teamxbox.com:

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In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, Xbox Live Arcade games portfolio manager, David Edery, has revealed that Microsoft plans to increase the file size limit for future XBLA games from 150 megabytes to 350MB. The announcement was made at the recent Nordic Game event in Malmo, Sweden.

Full Story: teamxbox.com | gamesindustry.biz

elocin671 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 20, 2008, 10:38:00 PM »

Yay! I cant wait for Undertow 2! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Agent ME · « **Reply #2 on:** May 20, 2008, 11:18:00 PM »

The only thing I don't like about this is that now I'm sure lots of games are just going to bloat their filesizes just to look cool and seem important. I mean, how the hell are a lot of the SNES/etc remakes nearly 50 mb? Only going to get worse..

EDIT: Wow, just noticed I have only one less post (217 posts) than the person above me. Weird.

This post has been edited by Agent ME: May 21 2008, 06:19 AM

iceman72 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 20, 2008, 11:34:00 PM »

Great! I am very glad they have decided to add this. Maybe now we can get more two player on same console games. It's very annoying that most of the XBLive games are either single player or single player with online multi player only.

goostleek · « **Reply #4 on:** May 21, 2008, 02:13:00 AM »

Nice. Finally Portal will fit the size. I'm looking forward to download it.

bucko · « **Reply #5 on:** May 21, 2008, 07:08:00 AM »

They should of left it imho, to show you don't need Blu-Ray for games..

davinator456 · « **Reply #6 on:** May 21, 2008, 08:40:00 AM »

what does bluray have to do with this at all?

Tiuk · « **Reply #7 on:** May 21, 2008, 09:58:00 AM »

It's about damned time. Giving "special permission" for certain games to go over the max file size was stupid.

dcuk · « **Reply #8 on:** May 22, 2008, 03:45:00 AM »

QUOTE(Tiuk @ May 21 2008, 04:58 PM)

It's about damned time. Giving "special permission" for certain games to go over the max file size was stupid.

Great! so when is streetfighter HD going to hit Xbox live?

1nsan3 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 22, 2008, 07:17:00 AM »

they mine as well increase the filesize to 1 TB. Hell ya know microsoft will come out with even a bigger hard drive.....get rid of the damn DISCS!!!!! cd's are starting to get as old as 8 track tapes. WOuldnt it be so damn usefull if there were no discs. no game swapping! just a menu and choose your game off of the hard drive. I would rather swap hard drives than discs.

echto · « **Reply #10 on:** May 22, 2008, 10:13:00 AM »

QUOTE(Agent ME @ May 20 2008, 10:18 PM)

The only thing I don't like about this is that now I'm sure lots of games are just going to bloat their filesizes just to look cool and seem important. I mean, how the hell are a lot of the SNES/etc remakes nearly 50 mb? Only going to get worse..

EDIT: Wow, just noticed I have only one less post (217 posts) than the person above me. Weird.

Probably because of crappy programming. Lets see... theres a deadline, theres a boss that hounds the employees to get it done, the employee gets it done using the best slop techniques available, the boss is happy - next task assigned, and theres no code auditing. Its all deadlines and money. So we can only guess that there is some sort of relationship between slop, size, and how fast to get the code out the door. A larger file doesn't necessarily mean a better file. It could mean it was thrown together faster to beat a deadline.

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This post has been edited by echto: May 22 2008, 05:16 PM

Steve-0 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 22, 2008, 03:13:00 PM »

GOLDEN EYE HD..................... best 350mb you could ever download!

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