We had our own inside sources and could never really say much, but now that 1UP's Luke Smith is babbling about it, we may as well come clean with some info that many have speculated but we've known about for a little while now: Microsoft is raising the XBLA download cap to 250MB.
What does this mean? This means no more shatty Live Arcade games that are gimped because they have to stick to a 50MB limit. Hello innovation.
From Lukems:
The Xbox Live Arcade file size was capped at 50 MB to accommodate consumers who purchased the hard drive-less Xbox 360 Core SKU (those consumers had to use one of Microsoft's memory cards). Under condition of anonymity, sources revealed to 1UP that the file size for Xbox Live Arcade titles has been increased from 50 MB to 250 MB and with Microsoft's approval, that size can be expanded to 450 MB. When asked for comment on the reported change to file size, Microsoft said, "We do not comment on rumor and speculation and so we can not confirm that rumor.
I guess you could still call this a rumor, but believe us, this is and will be made official in the near future.
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3:38 AM on 01.19.2007 | 
It is still being made right?
there we go.
Zephyr would be great because of the Xbox not geting so hot, but I duno when it will be out and if it will be priced 399€ too with all the stuff like harddrive and wireless controller.
1: Virtua Fighter 1 (Arcade)
2: Daytona USA (Arcade)
And throw in some online play too.
Sux 2 b an European gamer :(
also, what do you guys think this means? think we could get old playstation, saturn, and n64 titles on xbla now? i don't know how all the licensing stuff would work. i mean will games that came out for playstation one that had a third party publisher and developer have to go through any legality and licensing red tape before being okayed for xbla? i'd think that rare's old banjo kazooie games would be okay as they own that ip but then nintendo published it for n64 *confusing* so i have no idea. there are a few old psone and saturn games i'd gladly pay fifteen bucks or more for if they'd put em up for download with a little improved graphics/extras and live functionality.
summa, anybody, know how if this is possible and/or how it would work?
It very well could be, but I can always dream. We should cross our fingers and hope Microsoft is smart enough to bring it out sooner rather then later.