News on 360 spring update and DRM policy

msmalls74 · 22 May 2008 at 22:25

According to an interview there will be no spring update for the 360 this time round, but some DRM policies will be changed.

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.

ImageAccording 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…

link for the rest of the article http://next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10620&Itemid=2

ScarySquirrel · 22 May 2008 at 22:45

Good news about the DRM changes

Hyper · 22 May 2008 at 22:56

I am not fussed, Live is working fine as it is.

Wyrdo · 22 May 2008 at 23:00

ScarySquirrel said:
Good news about the DRM changes

Yeah that's a nice change.

Shamikebab · 22 May 2008 at 23:01

Yeah me neither, new features are always great but I can't think of many things I desperately want.

NorthstaNder · 22 May 2008 at 23:28

darn...i guess we'll never see 1440x900 support then!

Shamikebab · 22 May 2008 at 23:41

Oh yeah I'd quite like 1680x1050 support, but I won't mind if I don't.

Hyper · 23 May 2008 at 00:23

1900x1200 would be nice aswell but meh, it looks fine as it is :rolleyes:

Kreeeee · 23 May 2008 at 00:37

Shame that "leaked" feature list wasn't true.

NokkonWud · 23 May 2008 at 00:58

NorthstaNder said:
darn...i guess we'll never see 1440x900 support then!

I don't think anyone was ever expecting it were they?

Tobes · 23 May 2008 at 02:22

Gah that sucks balls. Yes Live is great but updates are fresh and it's not like we get them often. Sony have a chance to make a move on this and get some features in before MS.

WatchTower · 23 May 2008 at 03:40

You should see how big the thread on how much people want 16:10 ratio is on the offcial Xbox 360 forum. lol The fact that Microsoft hasn't said anything about it is an insult to their customers.

McManicMan · 23 May 2008 at 05:03

surprising that there still isn't group video chat and the infamous clan tab

Nismo · 23 May 2008 at 07:10

NokkonWud said:
I don't think anyone was ever expecting it were they?

Why not when its the native res for a lot of 19" WS monitors? I know I would welcome it.

Unless I'm missing something, and it's not the correct AR for the 360?

yaboy · 23 May 2008 at 08:09

**** you Microsoft!! :-(

No update till end of year wtf is that? Sony always releasing firmware updates and Microsoft only release ONE this year? IF THAT!

McManicMan · 23 May 2008 at 08:15

prehaps MS think their system is perfect enough as it is

cokecan · 23 May 2008 at 08:22

so what if they've only released 1 update this year?

Xbox live and the dashboard has changed a hell of a lot since 2005 and all of this is from updates.

As has been said above, everything really is working pretty well at the min on Live so the update would only have added more stuff and not necessarily fixed anything.

TBH i'd rather have this DRM tool their relesing than additional features to the dash at the min

Inoshishi · 23 May 2008 at 08:51

yaboy said:
**** you Microsoft!!

No update till end of year wtf is that? Sony always releasing firmware updates and Microsoft only release ONE this year? IF THAT!

Sony NEED to release updates to catch up to Live, Microsoft have it in the bag with Live so why release millions of updates?

Johnnytoxic · 23 May 2008 at 09:34

Don't you still have a 2gb limit on divx files ?

JBeck · 23 May 2008 at 09:36

Inoshishi said:
why release millions of updates?

Because there are still a truck load of things that need sorting. They seem to spend most of the time arsing around changing the blades and stuff, instead of adding things that really matter.