No Spring Update For Xbox Live

By Jane McEntegart, published on May 23, 2008 at 8:20 PM
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General Manager at Xbox Live, Marc Whitten, has announced that the company will forgo the company’s bi-annual update for Xbox Live to focus on game portability.

There’s usually an Xbox Live update every Spring and Autumn, however, in an interview with Next Generation, Whitten said that while the update was being ditched the company would release a DRM tool released next month to fix the issue of XBLA gamers needing to be connected to XBL if their console had broken down and been replaced.

“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.”

Interestingly, Next Generation also reports that Whitten says underperforming XBL games will be “delisted”. Games that are more than 6 months old and have a Metacritic score below 65 and a conversion rate below 6% on the service will be delisted after a three month notification period. The move is part of the company’s new quality over quantity approach to business.

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Anonymous 05/24/2008 3:39 AM
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Wish people would read what was actually said before they post there article about it, "So while most users will not notice any significant changes to the dashboard this spring,"

He didn't say there wont be one, He said most people wont notice a difference.

Cant get good reporting these days... :/
gm0n3y 05/26/2008 7:36 AM
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What exactly does this mean:
Quote :Interestingly, Next Generation also reports that Whitten says underperforming XBL games will be “delisted”. Games that are more than 6 months old and have a Metacritic score below 65 and a conversion rate below 6% on the service will be delisted after a three month notification period.


Are removing support for games that aren't selling well? If so that is complete crap.

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