Thank god for sony making it 2 gb for psn. Why is the XBL arcade limited to 150 mb? It's obvious it can handle more I'm just wondering.

You would think paying for XBL would get you the best possible qualty for downloadable games well this is just another way ms trick people because its not like the average consumer is gonna know that there xbla is capped at 150mb file sizes and that quality would get downgraded.

you cant say that cause one game looks good they all should fit the same mold wth
then saying that they cant program nice...
tho its Capcom and prob true you really think you should be saying it?

Man they keep up like this and they wont have that little number gap they like to brag up for much longer

I can't believe the comment made by that Microslop perv. You want your best version on the superior system of course. And that's the PS3. The Xbox 1.5 just isn't going to be able to keep up with the awesome PS3.

When you talking about quality over quantity then you can't go pass Microsoft

Yet none of you have a 360.
The cap is there because core uses have a Memory card capped at 256.
You can't make a 2 gig xbla game is everyone cannot purchase it.

Lets talk facts. The games on PSN are nothign special.
PSn which is cap free and doesn't have the diffuclt qualift assurance that xbox live has, still has less games and either don't get demos or get them later than the xbox versions.

So i will take lower textures on an arcade game compared to having demos on ALLLLLLLLL arcade games and most retail games.

Wait PSn doesn't even have cross game messaging...why am I arguing with you guys... Bash MS for capping arcade games but ignore the fact that when you're in a game you are dead to the outside world.

Since M$ has to "draw the line somewhere"... I encourage and welcome all devs who'd rather push the line than draw it to pop your games on my standardized PS3 hard drive. Theres PLENTY of room :P

Thank You and God Bless

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The cap is a unfortunate side affect of having machines without hard drives..it means dowloadable games have to be created with a memory card in mind.
It was a decision that was ultimately going to cost them, but it does mean they can market a non HD machine at a lower price point and try to attract the casual market. I don't know how succesful that has been (how many 'arcades' do they sell) but I suspect that strategically it was good move and if the only downside is a few multi games that re a bit gimpped on the 360, the marketting teams can live with that.
As a 360 owner with a 'full' machine though, you'd have to be a bit dissapointed with getting a worse version of game simply because of the arcade sku.
I think offering the Hard Driveless versions of the 360 gave a short term bennifit thats largely already been seen, but will continue to give long term drawbacks (limited game sizes, lack of HD caching, even non multiplayer for Burnout on non HD machines) that we haven't seen the last off. Somewhere in MS, I suspect people will be regretting that move.

It would be fuuny if the game was only 151MB, and Micrsoft still would hinder the textures.

Did anyone get the video off the PSN, besides the nice looking video, at the end, it says if you beat the game, you unlock a skin for the upcoming Bionic Com. game, I think it was the Nathan skin from Resistance game.

"Capcom Producer, Ben Judd." I did a double take because that's my name, haha. Ben Judd. Makes me want to go google my name to see what others are out there.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand. I think Microsoft should increase the download limit. Either that or offer a discounted price on a small hard drive if you have a core XBox.

But PSN allows for bigger games than Xbox Live? Damn, Microsoft needs to wake up. What exactly are those huge annual fees paying for again?

multi-part downloads? Just split the title into 2 or more chunks to bypass the 150MB limit?

(...or just get rid of the stupid limit)

The caps needs to go but to not alienate those without a hard drive I'm not sure if they will.

In the days of cheap 1 and 2 gigabyte memory cards (like SD) that sell for around 10-20 dollars, and with much larger cards available at decent prices (I've seen 4 gig cards go for like 30-40 dollars), Microsoft continues to gouge the consumer with overpriced, small, proprietary pieces of crap that only hold like 256-512 megs of ram (I own one of the 64 meg cards, which where released when 512 was standard.