Xbox Live Arcade krijgt reorganisatie en meer aandacht

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Mark Whitten reageert: "We have taken a different approach this spring and spent a lot of our time and resources of building the proper infrastructure and scale for the service not just today but also into the future. So while most users will not notice any significant changes to the dashboard this spring, I can tell you that the team will be releasing a new digital rights management (DRM) tool next month that will allow you to better consolidate your licenses for downloaded content to a single Xbox and allow you the freedom to be able to play your content both online and offline.

Er komt dus geen spring-update zoals we jullie gisteren al wisten te melden. Maar er komt dus wel eindelijk een langverwachtte DRM fix dus voor XBLA-games en video's.

So we are officially increasing our XBLA game size limits dramatically from 150mb to 350mb. We are also giving publishers more flexibility in how they price their games and opening up a new 1600 Microsoft Points price point for some of these now bigger and better games. This week we already have seen a title that is taking advantage of this and getting great response, Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One. In addition to allowing these bigger and better games we will be delisting older underperforming titles in order to keep the service focused on a section of high quality games. Finally, we are also going to be putting our money where our mouth is here and are launching a new fully funded 1st party studio which will be focused on high quality digital content creation., aldus Whitten.

Xbox Live Arcade wordt dus volwassener. De games mogen meer gaan kosten en zullen dus kwalitatief beter gemaakt kunnen worden. Ook zal er dus een first-party studio speciaal op Xbox Live Arcade gezet worden.