Microsoft’s Worldwide Games Portfolio Planner for Xbox Live Arcade, David Edery just confirmed that the XBLA’s file size restriction has just been increased as Microsoft does away with the old 100MB limit. (Full Article) As part of the “steady progress”, Edery confirmed word that they’ve raised the XBLA’s size limit to a hefty 350MB after they’ve been “listening to our partners, listening to our customers to try and get a feel for what’s right.” The raise in file size limit is, what we think overall to be a good thing for the market that will probably allow richer, deeper and more involved XBLA games. We agree with Edery, it’s just “good for the ecosystem.”
I always thought that the 150 megabyte limit was a little small, especially for all those HD remixes of older games. Hopefully this allow better games has they are allowed to add more content with a single release.
About damn time. To bad they are doing so they are not left if the dust of the ps3, to bad it can’t be because they want to be the next gen console.
This is a good thing for obvious reasons, but do you think Microsoft might have more 1200 point games now? You know Microsoft love their money.
Good to see that they are doing this, but expect the prices to possibly be 1200 MS points or higher.
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