Microsoft revealed last May that it would begin "de-listing" poor performing titles like Toyota's Yaris on its Xbox Live service, presumably in an attempt to alleviate developer complaints that quality efforts on the service were not standing out due to an influx of subpar titles. However, with the introduction of the New Xbox Experience on the immediate horizon, it seems that Microsoft has thrown out the idea of de-listing certain titles, mainly due to the new and improved interface brought by NXE. Says company vice president John Schappert:[blockquote2]We have no immediate plans to act on de-listing.[/blockquote2]Schappert hopes the interface changes will make sorting through hundreds of XBLA offerings much easier, so that de-listing is unnecessary. From what has been shown of NXE thus far, we're inclined to agree.
TGS 2008: XBLA De-listing Deferred [IGN]