Portal: Still Alive breaks XBLA size record Options

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Portal: Still Alive breaks XBLA size record Posted by XanTium | October 23 12:54 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From destructoid.com: [QUOTE] When we recommended last week that "you have a fair amount of space on your hard drive, say, 629 megs," for this week's Xbox LIVE Arcade title, Portal: Still Alive, we weren't kidding. Surprise! Portal: Still Alive in available on Xbox LIVE today and it weights in at -- you guessed it -- 629 megs. If your hard drive is full or you don't have one at all, don't say we didn't warn you; this officially makes Portal Still Alive the biggest Xbox LIVE Arcade game to date, breaking the current XBLA size-cap of 350 MB. [/QUOTE] Full Story: destructoid.com

[lmaolmao]

i don't understand why they have size caps for downloadable games, when demos are often >1gb!

[hamwbone]

i didnt even know this was comming out! sweeeet, but oh such bad timing..... saints 2, fable 2, fallout 3, dead space... arghhhh!

[Chimp5000]

Must...go...download...NOW!

[bucko]

Mmmmm Cake but 1200 points is to much for Cake

[0794]

seems like quite an absurd size for a live arcade game but then again i don't know much about this title.

regardless, releasing a title of that size for download will prevent many from buying that game - but the publicity on the size issue may help push sales as well...interesting

[CyberKnight]

Which makes this the first (?) Xbox Live Arcade game not playable on a default Xbox 360 Arcade console.

(First? If the old cap was 350MB, and the Arcade comes with a 256MB card, was there something bigger already?)

[rocarmy4life]

629mb? The cake will be worth every "byte"!! Too bad we cant pay 300points to get the extra maps if we already own the Orange Box.

[hamwbone]

seems like quite an absurd size for a live arcade game but then again i don't know much about this title.

regardless, releasing a title of that size for download will prevent many from buying that game - but the publicity on the size issue may help push sales as well...interesting

even though its on the live arcade i would hardly call it an "arcade game"

this title has more play then some full 60$ games

[johnnyrico]

I find the price too stiff, Portal is a quite short game, whereas for the same price of 1200 MS points you can get an Xbox original like Fable, which has a huge replay value and will keep you busy far longer than Portal.

[darkshadow2k8]

Which makes this the first (?) Xbox Live Arcade game not playable on a default Xbox 360 Arcade console.

(First? If the old cap was 350MB, and the Arcade comes with a 256MB card, was there something bigger already?)

well because even with a 512mb memory card portal still alive would not fit into it u NEED a hard drive for it

by the way i think its a pretty damn good game for an arcade feels more like a demo than a arcade game

[DeMoN_DARREN]

Hmmmmm..... XBLA Size cap.... Portal.... XBLA Size cap..... Portal.... XBLA Size cap.....hmmm

XBLA SIZE CAP BE DAMNED!!

[spinr34]

i was surprised by the size of Portal when i downloaded it last night. but, i remembered that MS is now offering cheap hard drives for all core/arcade users and that NXE is coming out soon. I think almost everyone will have a hard drive by the end of the year and we'll see the size limit be increased or completely removed by spring 09. if people don't get a hard drive it'll just kind of be like, "well, you can play all of these great games if you had extra storage".

[tomgreen99200]

who needs a download cap ? anyway, the price does seem a little stiff.

[CollinstheClown]

Lies! It's 628.89MBs




-CollinstheClown