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Read More »Kinect sales will blow away iPad
The Xbox 360 Kinect will outsell Apple’s highly successful iPad – that’s the claim being made by Microsoft at the Tokyo Game Show. The pre-orders have been really strong,” official Kinect spokesperson Kudo Tsunoda told Gamasutra. As far as what we’re looking at for holiday, this is going to be …
Read More »JAPAN: Xbox 360 S sells 700
This week saw the launch of the slimmed-down Xbox 360 S in Japan, but figures from Media Create as reported by Spong show that the new console sold just 700 units, accounting for less than 20 per cent of total Xbox 360 hardware sales. The best selling machine of the …
Read More »Hydrophobia kicks off Live promotion
Xbox Live’s Hydrophobia is the lead game in Microsoft’s latest collection of digital titles – Game Feast. Like its Summer of Arcade promotion which featured games such as Limbo and Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light, Game Feast is Microsoft’s pick of new downloadable titles in early Q4. Hydrophobia …
Read More »Halo success bodes well for Black Ops
Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops could stand to benefit the successful launch of Halo: Reach in the long run. That’s according to Lazard Capital’s Colin Sebastien. The analyst claims the early sales figures for Microsoft’s latest shooter suggest strength for the core market, which bodes well for similar titles …
Read More »Xbox 360 has broken industry models
Platform holder Microsoft has claimed that Xbox 360’s ongoing sales gains have heralded a mid-generation leadership change” that puts its console at the front of the pack. Analysts are telling us that we’ve broken all their models,” Microsoft Xbox product director Aaron Greenberg told Gamasutra. They say there’s never been …
Read More »MS predicts 3m+ Kinect sales this Q4
Xbox 360 motion camera Kinect will sell over 3m units this holiday period following its launch this November, platform holder Microsoft has claimed. Our estimates that we will sell in excess of 3m units this holiday,” Microsoft Xbox product director Aaron Greenberg told Gamasutra. Our key indicators are feedback from …
Read More »Kinect Brain Training dated for Europe
Microsoft has announced the Kinect iteration of Brain Training will hit Europe in Q1 2011. During the platform holder’s keynote speech at this year’s Tokyo Games Show, Xbox Japan’s general manager Takashi Sensui revealed that the title will be released in North America and Europe early next year”. He also …
Read More »Radiant Silvergun coming to XBLA
One shock announcement to emerge from Microsoft’s Tokyo Game Show press conference was that cult shooter Radiant Silvergun is scheduled for a surprise release on Xbox Live Arcade. The Treasure-developed game was previously released in both the arcades and on Sega Saturn in 1998, though was never published outside of …
Read More »MS aware of Halo Reach disc issues
Microsoft has stated that it is looking to address problems with some copies of Halo Reach that are preventing some gamers from playing the game. A number of consumers have claimed that their Xbox 360 consoles are unable to read the game disc. An isolated report on Maxconsole even went …
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