Microsoft rejected Portal from XBLA lineup

I'm surprised MS doesn't let EVERYTHING onto XBLA. That way they just might sell some of those overpriced 120 gig hard drives.

How about changing "Xbox Originals" to be "Originals" and putting this under that?

Get with the Times MS
There is No excuse for this Bull****, Now your Screwing every Pro/Elite gamer!

Remove the cap, let any size on the arcade, seriously theres no harm. If you don't have the memory don't buy it, simple. More memory just means more quantity as long as we still get small sized games come through too i don't see the problem, I already have portal but it's a shame people will have to miss out.

WTF?!!! What a bonehead move MS!!!

Huh....if they put portal out on XBLA, I may just give that game a shot on the free demo.

I will shove a cake where the sun don't shine, Mr. Gates, unless you allow Portal onto XLBA. AND THAT IS NO LIE.

So why was Tomb Raider Anniversary allowed to be bought and downloaded over Live. What about all the backwards compatible games that NO ONE is buying? Portal has to be able to fit somewhere onto Live.

I bet MS just hates Valve because of their stance on free DLC.

Why dont you guys stfu and go buy orange box if you want portal so bad.

This isn't a triumph.

I'm making a note here: huge failure.

It's meant to be about buying Portal alone. Some may not want to play Half Life 2 or have to pay full price for a game that they aren't going to play. So, offering Portal as a stand-alone download would be a very smart move.

A move that Microsoft can't seem to grasp. They're being difficult about making money!

I have no interest in the rest of the Orange Box pack and have thought many times how awesome Portal would have been as a downloadable title as a quick $15 to $20 fix. I borrowed a friends copy of Orange box to play through Portal but I would love for it to be sitting on my hard drive ready to play at a moment's notice.

Not packing the hard drive in with all Xbox 360s and all the policy side effects from this has been one of Microsoft's biggest mistakes this time around.

That and can we please lower the cost of the 120gig drive?!? I can't believe there is a $130 markup from the same drive on Buy.com! Do they NOT want me to buy it? I love the Xbox Originals program and have bought a few games. It reminds me of having HDLoader on my PS2. But with only ~14GB of usable space on the HD, and the 120GB drive beyond what any sane person would pay for the upgrade, I'm left with a full HD and the stifling of digital distribution... Grr!

Guys, you do realise that Portal Standalone is out?

And MS won't allow it because (as a couple of Portal fanboys flamed me some time ago), it's not a "tech-demo/experiment" but a "full ass-kicking game".

To everyone complaining about having to get 4 games you will not play just to get portal, stfu and go get a paper route.

Who cares if this is not released on XBLA? Suck it up and get a used disc at your local ripoff (I mean Gamestop).

Besides, ya morons, you got a 360 for fps', so play the other 4 games (that happen to be fps) or dont.

Go get a job mowing lawns, ya kids

If it came to XBLA, then it wouldn't have been on the Orange Box and I'm sure the price wouldn't have gone down so I don't mind.
Not to mention my poor little HDD probably couldn't take it.
Although I wouldn't mind if Microsoft fixed the HDD transfer license stuff.

I think it would make an absolute killing if they put it out on the XBLA now.

On a side note, with all the quality retail titles out now the XBLA has lost it's shine a bit for me personally.

I will mention that, even to those not interested in the other 4 games in Orange Box, Portal is worth the cost alone even though it's quite short.

Microsoft is KINDA right ... Portal should not go on XBLA...
But should Portal become a downloadable game like warhawk on PS3 ? ABSOLUTELY...
If Microsoft want to make sure that this new kind of "Downloable nextgen game" does not screw anybody, all they should do as far as limitations should be that the game has to be available on retail aswell .... Like in the "ORANGE BOX"

Portal would be a great stand alone game, Microsoft put on your thinking hats and make up some way to keep your XBLA limitations and still get this game onto our hard drives.

I'm sick of this 150mb cap bullshit.
It's not bringing any value to the gamers

You know what Valve, put Portal on PSN.

Let the sales do the talking.

I'm amazed that theres so much hate here for XBLA. I'm in full agreement that we already have Portal in Orangebox, so if your desperate to play it, go buy it. My friend picked up Orangebox for a mere $15 pre-owned. Which is fantastic considering it was also in great condition. Not to mention the 360 version of Orangebox is great, much better than what PS3 owners have.

Obviously there is 2 reasons why a game such as Portal is not right for XBLA. Space being its way over 150mb, but how much more i have no idea. The second being Portal is more in line with a very short retail game. Seriously compare it to every game on XBLA and you will realise that a game such as Portal deserves to be in its own category, not lumped with Arcade games which are meant to be incredibly simple. I'm going to say it but half the people here complaining would never buy it as DLC anyway. You'd find more ways to complain about the price and how much memory it takes up.

@ AnOffday: And how exactly do you know Xbox Originals aren't selling? You have nothing what so ever to back up that very bold claim, until Microsoft disclose details.

I think the best solution to this really is to give new downloadable 360 games, that can already be bought at retail on a disk their own section on XBL. This way they are not limited by XBLA's limit and people that actually are insane enough to buy a 120gb HDD will actually finally have a reason for buying it in the first place.

Or they could start shipping Arcade's with 20gb hard drives, replace preim with a 60gb HDD and lower the price on both the 20gb and 120gb. Never going to happen but it should.

Sell it in 150mb chunks. =P

the N+ devs are retards tehy only said xbla was ful of bad games because they have beefs with alot of the otehr developers, heck they tried to get Alien hominid kicked from IGA awards a few years ago

MS is makeing some big mistakes.

Where are these games ms?

Dodonpachi?

Ketsui X?

Raiden Fighters Aces?

The King Of Fighters 12?

Fist of The North Star?

The New Guilty Gear that came out only on ps2?

I'm trying to stay a 1 console guy ms but seriously, your breaking my balls man.

New petition up for not only allowing portal to XBLA but also getting rid of file size restrictions.

on http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/portalxbla

Wow, I'd even buy this if it was 1200 points...