Xbox Live Arcade is a hit...

[Paco]

I was talking specifically about the two rumors posted in EGM. full 360 game downloads and Bungie's Arcade game.

I understand that its smaller stuff right now, like the marble Madness-like game i'd like o try out, but that's my point: wouldn't it take a loooooong time to d/l a 10 gig+ HD game?

There are demos on Xbox Live you can download right now (Full Auto, Fight Night Round 3, Condemned, Kameo, Quake 4, Project Gotham Racing 3, etc.), usually coming in around 500 MB to a gig, and people report different download times depending on their connection speed. Times ranged from 10 minutes to a couple days.

Download times from TXB forum

Project Gotham 3, for example, is 1.25 gigs. One TXB'er said:

"yup...hope the demo is worthwhile....

EDIT: after 5 minutes im at 10%..."

and another said

"Holy Hell this demo is taking forever to download..."

I'm guessing games with 10 gigabytes or so would take several hours to a week depending on your download speed.