Bionic Commando Rearmed

[Glass Joe]

Stop being backwards. We want the PSP remakes on PSN, not the PSN remakes on PSP.

Yeah but having the option to get this onto your PSP from your PS3 is the best of both worlds.

[Beefy Hits]

One of my all-time fave NES games. This is some hot shit, and it's NOT the arcade version, thank God.

[CouryC]

God, this looks so fucking good.

[Yoshi]

Yeah but having the option to get this onto your PSP from your PS3 is the best of both worlds.

Agreed.

[Cowdisease]

They're saying that the game will be released in May.

[B-Ri]

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3166495

XBLA version gimpped. PC/PSN versions superior says 1up. Reason? 150mb limit.

When the game hits this spring, the PlayStation Network version (as well as the PC incarnation) will have higher-res textures than the Xbox Live Arcade version. Blame Live Arcade's 150MB limit on file sizes, Judd explained.

This filesize limit is also going to gimp my SF2THD

[JefmcC]

"That's surprising to hear," says John Schappert, Microsoft's corporate VP of Xbox Live, Software, and Services, when we asked him about Capcom's issues later in the day. "Last I checked it was Capcom that had an exception to our file size with Street Fighter II [Hyper Fighting].... We raised our limit to 150 megs, which seems pretty darn great.... I don't think it has limited our games in any way. Look at Rez HD. Look at Poker Smash. Look at Undertow. These are very, very, very good games."

Yeah, look at all those "high rez" textures in REZ. It looks marginally better than the DC/PS2 game. Undertow? Excuse me, did I just read that right?

"We still want Arcade to stand more for quick pick-up-and-play games that are easy to download," he says. "They're still uniquely different than the retail games. We have to draw a line in the sand somewhere."

You need to draw a new line.

Both Schappert and Greenberg say they'd be surprised if Capcom's upcoming downloadable Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix also suffers from textures that aren't as sharp as those in the PS3 version. "We have 10 million members," says Schappert. "Where would you want your best games to appear?" Greenberg adds, "Street Fighter II [Hyper Fighting] is the number one-selling game in the history of Xbox Live Arcade. That's where the fans are."

Actually, those fans are more and more showing up on the Wii and PS3.

Meanwhile, Schappert says he and his team are on call if Capcom can't get Bionic Commando: Rearmed's high-res textures to fit under the 150MB limit. "There are 800 different factors [besides memory issues] that factor into development," he says. "There's also prowess of programmers. It's never cut and dry.... If we need to help them program their stuff, we have people on [XNA General Manager] Chris Satchell's team that fly around and help our dev teams out when they need it.... I'm kind of new, but [Capcom] knows someone's number at Xbox Live. I'm certainly willing to help them out."

Isn't it MS's responsibility to create the canvas for the developers palate?

I can't believe the amount of arrogance quoted in that article. Even for MS, that's all just way over the top ballsy. Capcom should tell them, "Sorry we don't think our vision for clean hi res textures fits with your XBLA platform."

[g0zen]

I don't think he can hear you.

[YellerDog]

That's really really stupid of MS, but no concrete differences between the versions have been brought up yet. Molehill.

[mollipen]

I was pretty set on getting Rearmed for the PS3 instead of X360, and this just seals the deal.

That's really really stupid of MS, but no concrete differences between the versions have been brought up yet. Molehill.

Are you not counting texture resolution as a "concrete difference"?