GamesIndustry.biz has learned that Valve asked Microsoft if it was possible to place its award-winning Orange Box title, Portal, on Xbox Live Arcade for download, but that it was rejected.
"We'd love to do that. Right now it's something we'd love to do. I'd love to sell Portal on Xbox live," said Doug Lombardi, marketing director at Valve. "[But] the platform holders aren't doing that right now. There's a size limit and all kinds of other things.
A gameplay demo of the cancelled Portal prequel F-Stop using recreated assets features no portals, and a unique camera that duplicates items.
From GamesReviews:"Portal with RTX is a fresh look for the 2007 classic. But it's not easy to run, and the results may not impress everybody."
Portal RTX may look like a quant remaster, but that couldn't be further from the truth. It's one of the most demanding games available today.
And in a bad way! This is not where gaming should be going. We should focus more on better physics, AI, more meaningful writing, substance in storytelling and overall art over reflections and lighting effects. But hey, you've got billion dollar companies trying to sell you stuff, so I guess you have to make a whole ecosystem around ray tracing because people make a living out of it on youtube. Talk about losing touch with reality and taking eye off the ball. Advancing gaming as a whole my ass!
PSN will probably take it :)
I still don't understand MS standing on this, they allow demos of any size but limit the downloadable games to just 150mb.
that Microsoft limits the download size of games because some people lack a hard drive. I think that the old download size limit used to be 50mb, but they increased it when Symphony of the Night was released. Also at the same time a larger memory card was released.
It really doesn't make sense bc they could have much bigger games on XBLA. If the Core users wanted to purchase them just buy the hard drive.
They really should of stayed with HDD standard. There is afew things MS did wrong this Gen, but not at the size of not haven a HDD standard! They could have gotten away pretty easy with everything else. Yet without a standard HDD its really holding everything else back.
Maybe they were worried about the size of it.
It's a great little title that came with the Orange Box release which sold pretty damn well compared to the lackluster sales of the ps3 version.If you haven't even gotten the game now shame on you. If you got it for the ps3 BIG shame on you. The best version is on the best system <3