360fanboy11
May 22nd, 2008, 22:10
Filed under: News (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/category/news/), Xbox Live Arcade (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/category/xbox-live-arcade/)
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/12/xboxlivelogominiei.jpg (http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10620)In an exclusive interview with Next Generation (http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10620), Xbox Live general manager Marc Whitten announced the rather disappointing news that they will not be releasing a Spring update (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/tag/spring-update) this year. This of course means that the rumored Spring update feature set (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/05/14/rumor-spring-update-adds-game-installs-drm-fixes-motion-sens/) that was leaked last week was complete bologna. Whitten says that instead of putting their resources into a Spring update, they decided to focus their energy into "building the proper infrastructure and scale for the service" (ahem, more reliability (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/12/30/xbox-live-has-had-a-rough-holiday/)). But all is not lost in the land of updates, as Whitten confirmed Microsoft will be rolling out a change to their DRM policy in June that'll allow content owners to re-license XBLA and XBLM content to a single console. This move will make said content available when disconnected from Xbox Live.
Finally, we learn that the Xbox Live Arcade (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/tag/xbla) will get a metaphorical Spring cleaning as Microsoft plans to remove under-performing Arcade titles. Games that have been on the market for over six months, have a Metacritic average lower than 65% and a conversion rate below 6% will be targeted for de-listing. A move that Microsoft hopes will streamline the service and open it up to bigger and better things.
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http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.xbox360fanboy.com/media/2007/12/xboxlivelogominiei.jpg (http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10620)In an exclusive interview with Next Generation (http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10620), Xbox Live general manager Marc Whitten announced the rather disappointing news that they will not be releasing a Spring update (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/tag/spring-update) this year. This of course means that the rumored Spring update feature set (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/05/14/rumor-spring-update-adds-game-installs-drm-fixes-motion-sens/) that was leaked last week was complete bologna. Whitten says that instead of putting their resources into a Spring update, they decided to focus their energy into "building the proper infrastructure and scale for the service" (ahem, more reliability (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/12/30/xbox-live-has-had-a-rough-holiday/)). But all is not lost in the land of updates, as Whitten confirmed Microsoft will be rolling out a change to their DRM policy in June that'll allow content owners to re-license XBLA and XBLM content to a single console. This move will make said content available when disconnected from Xbox Live.
Finally, we learn that the Xbox Live Arcade (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/tag/xbla) will get a metaphorical Spring cleaning as Microsoft plans to remove under-performing Arcade titles. Games that have been on the market for over six months, have a Metacritic average lower than 65% and a conversion rate below 6% will be targeted for de-listing. A move that Microsoft hopes will streamline the service and open it up to bigger and better things.
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