Microsoft have gone and announced that there won’t be a spring dashboard update this year, instead concentrating their efforts on improving Live’s infrastructure. Fair enough, although it seems a little strange considering there was a list of new features knocking around which seemed very authentic.

As well as the network infrastructure stuff, they’ve decided to release a fix for the infamous XBLA DRM locking issue, as well as changes to the price and size limits for XBLA games themselves (1600 points and 350MB repectively, since you asked). They’ll also be removing poorly-performing games completely. Of course, whether that counts as a worthy replacement for a full-blown dash update is a different matter.

I’m willing to bet that we’ll be seeing at least some, if not all, of those “leaked” changes in future, maybe as part of a summer update, or maybe even incorporated into the fall offering – let’s just hope that it comes a bit earlier than December this time around.

That said, is there anything else that the Dashboard urgently needs? It’s already widely regarded as being miles ahead of Sony’s equivalent, XMB, so maybe they’re having a breather and letting the competition play catchup?

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