Microsoft Officially Relaxes Xbox Live Arcade Limits

Officials from Microsoft have confirmed that the maximum total size of an Xbox Live Arcade download has been increased from 50MB to 150MB.

Although a new upper limit has never previously been discussed by Microsoft, then Xbox Live Arcade group manager Greg Canessa did indicate in January that the company would be willing to relax the 50MB limit.

[calderra]

...note that this is largely due to the new, larger memory card. Again, the idea of the limit is to make the games fit on a mem card for the users who still choose to use a card.

...and no developer should need more then 50mb to bring PacMan or Paperboy anyway.

[zonetrooper5]

Its 150MB now the limit, they should of made it 200MB but it does not matter that much to me.

[Funky Town_TX]

what is this going to cost? $70 maybe.

[zonetrooper5]

I have already got the HDD, i got the premium package not the tard pack without the wireless controller, no headset and no hard drive.

[Rasputin2011]

That is what I said when making my Xbox 360 purchase. Is there any point in not getting the premium bundle?

[Covenant]

Next, MS: Bigger--and reasonably priced--hard drive. SOON.

[Keyser]

this looks like they are recognizing some flaws they may have made in their business plan years ago.

It really would appear that MS didn't think that space would be an issue in the years to come when they sat down and planned things out. MS was not in the dark about HDdvd's or Blueray dvd's a couple of years ago. I'm sure they new about it like Sony did. It would appear they didn't feel it would be so important. Why sell a system without a hard drive when you're going to have so much downloadable content? I know, I know, someone's going to say you have the option as a consumer. That's all and well but I'm sure the developers would have loved the option and the result would have been more positive for us consumers.

Good for them for responding to the need by putting out a $50 memory cards to compensate but it sure feels like they're passing the buck for a bad decision they may have made.

Some might disagree but it is definitely a possibilty.