Valve wanted to bring Portal to the Xbox Live Arcade, but apparently Microsoft wanted none of that to happen.
"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."Major game releases appearing on Live Arcade? That'll be the day. Perhaps on the next generation of Microsoft consoles will we see this, but their current Arcade limitations are just too set in stone to change dramatically.
"We've asked them, we said we were open to it. So it's a decision for the platform holder and how they want to make the games available and how much bandwidth they want to [allow]."
But Lombardi did hint that something might be possible in the future: "I think it's a trade-off, we'll see it one day.
"It always happens once it's been proven and I think it's been proven now on Steam, so I'm sure it'll migrate back to the consoles just like everything else does."
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