xbox live arcade game size expands to 150 Mb, memory unit increases to 512MB

[7th lutz]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6166804.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;1

Xbox 360 owners will be able to carry more with a single memory unit, as a new 512MB version was revealed today. Previously, memory units were sized at 64MB. The new half-gig units will come preloaded with the Xbox Live Arcade title Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (for a limited time) and retail for $49.99 when they arrive in stores on April 3. At that time, the price of the 64MB units will drop from $39.99 to $29.99.

The announcement comes in conjunction with the revelation that Microsoft has increased the size limit of Xbox Live Arcade titles from 50MB to 150MB, a move the company says will give developers "greater flexibility in game design and [expand] the opportunity to add advanced game features while still keeping games compact." Today's news is the official confirmation of the increase, which was previously given the thumbs up for the upcoming Castlevania: Symphony of Night.

[jajaja]

Good news for the people who have the core model or what to buy that instead of the premium for some reason :)

[jcalder8]

Its about time they increased the size of the games, I think they should have gone up to 250MB though.

[norkusa]

With the memory unit size increase, does that now mean Halo 3 can be played on a core 360 without a HDD?

[heybtbm]

Today's news is the official confirmation of the increase, which was previously given the thumbs up for the upcoming Castlevania: Symphony of Night.

Great...now where the hell is SotN? Has anyone else noticed that this game seems to have dropped off the map in the past 2 months?

[s1lence]

Great, how about a bigger HDD?

[diskoboy]

One funny thing I heard at work, today - you know it's a slow news day when Paul Harvey brings up the increased memory size for the Xbox 360 memory cards in his little news report thing he does..