Monday Marketplace Madness (Xblive)

Windle · 8 May 2006 at 18:11

From Major Nelson.....

You may recall a press release that went out last week that talked about the E3 related content that will be hitting the Xbox Live Marketplace as part of the ‘Bringing it Home’ promotion on Xbox Live. Well it’s time to test out that broadband connection of yours, since moments ago, the first wave of new content started washing up on the Marketplace shores.

Here are new game trailers now on the Xbox Live Marketplace. This content is available 720p format in all Xbox Live regions.

BattleStation: Midway (Ubisoft)
Brother In Arms Hell's Highway (Ubisoft)
Bullet Witch (AQ Interactive/Cavia)
College Hoops (2K7 2KSports)
Dance Dance Revolution Universe (Konami)
Dead Rising (Capcom)
John Woo Presents Stranglehold (Midway)
NCAA Football 07 (Electronic Arts)
Rain (AQ Interactive/Cavia)
Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega)
Test Drive Unlimited (Atari)
The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-Earth II (Electronic Arts)

PLUS: A movie trailer is also up there for you to take a look at:

Poseidon (this is the new one, not the Shelly Winters version) in 480p and 720p
(this content is not available in France)

Playable Demos

Test Drive Unlimited (Atari)

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KennyBhoy · 8 May 2006 at 18:14

Still d/l the demo of Test Drive......

In the list of vids though, i have seen John Woo Presents Stranglehold before and it looks amazing......Max Payne on 100 cans of Red Bull material! :eek:

Zico · 8 May 2006 at 18:22

Windle said:
Dead Rising (Capcom)

Playable Demos

Test Drive Unlimited (Atari)

Nothing new for Dead Rising yet (unless it's out for US but not UK).

Grabbing the Test Drive Demo right now.

IceBus · 8 May 2006 at 19:03

Sonic looks class

Kainz · 8 May 2006 at 19:05

Poseidon = Looks awesome!
Dead Rising Trailer = Seems to be a mix of the trailer on the main webby and someother ingame stuff.

Just checking out Bullet Witch atm. So far all content is blazing down the line (2mb adsl) very fast.

FeFiDoh · 8 May 2006 at 19:20

lmfao 11 people online 9 on the xbox dashboard d/ling content 2 on test drive :cool:

GhostFace · 8 May 2006 at 19:21

Kainz said:
So far all content is blazing down the line (2mb adsl) very fast.

Wish mine would, I've got 10mb Ntl and it's crap on Live. :mad:

Kainz · 8 May 2006 at 19:24

GhostFace said:
Wish mine would, I've got 10mb Ntl and it's crap on Live.

Yeah, I've got a mate on 10mb ntl and I fear he'll be downloading the demo alone for hours to come :/

Jabbs · 8 May 2006 at 20:46

Not really madness there is one thing worth downloading the test drive demo, trailors dont really show anything.

McManicMan · 8 May 2006 at 21:29

Kainz said:
Yeah, I've got a mate on 10mb ntl and I fear he'll be downloading the demo alone for hours to come :/

dunno why, i'm on 2meg NTL and have downloaded all the e3 trailers, and TDU demo, ect, ect all in 2hours

Jabbs · 8 May 2006 at 21:37

I can hit nearly 400kbs on max dsl, but on live i get 100kbs if am lucky very frustrating

bilston · 9 May 2006 at 00:23

NTL limit the download bandwidth on the port that Xbox Live uses. Thats why it takes ages.

IceBus · 9 May 2006 at 03:35

bilston said:
NTL limit the download bandwidth on the port that Xbox Live uses. Thats why it takes ages.

Anyone tried contacting them about it?

Thesnipergecko · 9 May 2006 at 09:39

Jabbs said:
I can hit nearly 400kbs on max dsl, but on live i get 100kbs if am lucky very frustrating

How do you monitor the bandwidth your xbox uses?

Paul ...

Boogle · 9 May 2006 at 10:08

Thesnipergecko said:
How do you monitor the bandwidth your xbox uses?

Paul ...

Router / Firewall / Network monitor

Thesnipergecko · 9 May 2006 at 10:24

Boogle said:
Router / Firewall / Network monitor

Any particular App?

Paul ...

Boogle · 9 May 2006 at 10:26

Thesnipergecko said:
Any particular App?

Paul ...

You can put MRTG on a Linux PC somewhere on the network. It will monitor the bandwidth the NICs use. So you just put the Linux PC between the Xbox 360 and the rest of the network.

Personally I use Astaro Linux/Firewall which has network monitoring.

For more information I would pop into the networking forum

bilston · 9 May 2006 at 13:22

IceBus said:
Anyone tried contacting them about it?

Loads of threads about it on other forums. People have been complaining, phoning them up, writing emails but NTL dont want to know. They claim it's Live's problem when it clearly isnt as people on other ISP's are getting pretty good speeds.

For me it takes somewhere in the region of 5-10 minutes just to download a Arcade demo. Theyre only 30megs!

McManicMan · 9 May 2006 at 14:19

bilston said:
NTL limit the download bandwidth on the port that Xbox Live uses. Thats why it takes ages.

rubbish, my 2meg is downloading at full speed via 360 connecting to pc monitoring with DU Meter, its probably a over subscribed UBR in your area

Nismo · 9 May 2006 at 14:26

McManicMan said:
rubbish, my 2meg is downloading at full speed via 360 connecting to pc monitoring with DU Meter, its probably a over subscribed UBR in your area

Live is ALWAYS slow for downloading after about 5pm here, however downloading on my PC from the net stays roughly the same as mornings and afternoons (fast). I managed to get all the other new marketplace content within an hour this morning though, which was about 500-600Meg.

I'm on NTL 2Meg, so I don't think its total rubbish.

Maybe they implemented some sort of limit in certain parts of the country?