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Gazz on 24 May 2008
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: MS to Delist XBLA Titles
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In this exclusive interview with general manager of Xbox Live Marc Whitten, Next-Gen gets all the first details on big changes to the service—including that there will be no spring dashboard update, and that underperforming XBLA titles will be removed.

According to Whitten, XBLA titles that have been out for more than six months, have a Metacritic score of less than 65%, and have a conversion rate of less than 6% will be eligible for desliting. Microsoft will give three months of notice before these titles are removed.

Whitten also told us that there would be no spring dashboard update for Xbox 360 owners this year, saying that resources were instead focused on “building the proper infrastructure and scale for the service.” There will however be a change to DRM policy and a tool released next month that will allow 360 owners to re-license content to a single console—finally fixing the issue that forced gamers playing XBLA games to be connected to Xbox LIVE if their 360 broke down and was replaced.

Read on for the complete Q and A, which provides all the details on this news and more, including a new 1st party development studio and why the DRM issue took so long to resolve…

 

 

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I don't have a 360 anymore, but being told off with a lame excuse of using resources for DRM that was flawed trough MS's own mistakes seems like being shafted to me. Upgrading live is completely lame, what the hell do you pay your monthly subscription for anyway? To me that manager looks like one of those people who laughs because he knows he just hurt a lot of people.

 

Edit: I critizised Sony for not having XMB so far and I sometimes looked at envy at the complete list of updates on the 360 which always seemed excellent. That harbor has now been passed. 



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ecurbj on 24 May 2008

Damn, I wanted the Xbox 360 dashboard to look prettier in design. I mean it's fine as it is but I wanted some new stuff :D

Oh well, but I do like that license feature. I remember I couldn't play none of the XBLA I bought offline. I always had to play them online which was retarded when I would switch my Xbox 360 in.



mysticD on 24 May 2008

So why do you care if you don't own Xbox anymore? ...

I am pretty happy with 360 dashboard, it has far more features than Sony XMB at the moment so I am not sure what is the reason.  I am rather glad they fix the DRM issue and I prefer to have that than update to dashboard that for the most part work just fine.  (Sure it can used some tweak and may be eventually facelift but as far as functionality go it's fine).