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Xbox 360 Launch Titles and Information 55

Posted by Zonk from the coming-your-way dept.
1up has some information from a recent release of Xbox 360 launch information. They have available for you the Launch Titles list, an assurance that the EU and JP launches will be this year, an overview of the event, and updates on the titles Ninety-Nine Nights and Frame City Killer. From the launch titles list: "Activision: Call of Duty 2, Tony Hawk American Waste, Quake 4, Gun - Capcom: Resident Evil 5, Dead Rising - Square Enix: FFXI - Microsoft Game Studios: Everyparty (from Game Republic), Ninety Nine Nights, PGR3 - Ubisoft: Ghost Recon 3"
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  • I wounder if they play on new on the same servers as PS2 and PC? and if they are will "new" servers be added to compensate? I dont know much about FFXI, althought I am planning on getting it, but are new servers ever added? So new players can start on a world that doesnt already have players at the top level.
    • When new servers have been added in the past existing players are offered a migration option to the new server to help fill it up.

      New players are joining the game all the time. Sure when the Xbox version debuts there may be a large influx. But I don't imagine it will be any different from when the Euro version of the game went live.

      The way the game progresses, higher level players don't hang around the beginning cities all that much.
    • I can say with almost 100% certainty Square-Enix will not have dedicated servers for Xbox users. They'll let their automated system for spreading out the new users do it's thing and if certain servers become over loaded they will offer a migration.

      This is how they handled it for the US PC launch, US PS2 launch, and EU launch.
    • Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • Modern? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Shadow Wrought ( 586631 ) <.moc.liamg. .ta. .thguorw.wodahs.> on Monday July 25, 2005 @02:48PM (#13159210) Homepage Journal
    the current timetable still makes the machine's territorial releases far closer than any other modern gaming machine. (emphasis added)

    So what does that make the Xbox? Archaic? Medeivel? Ancient, perhaps? WOuldn't next generation, or newest generation be a bit more accurate than "modern?"

  • Are these actually launch titles? (Score:5, Informative)

    by defkkon ( 712076 ) on Monday July 25, 2005 @02:55PM (#13159282)
    From TFA "...confirming what's already in development."

    Nowhere does it say that these are launch titles. All it does is list some games that are in development for the console.

    Am I missing something, or did the submitter not realize that there is a big difference between a launch title and a title in development for a new system?

    I was quite excited to see a list of launch titles for the 360, and was quite disappointed...

  • Several of these could also be XboX3 or PS4 games (Score:3, Funny)

    by DeadBugs ( 546475 ) on Monday July 25, 2005 @02:56PM (#13159295) Homepage
    # dea Factory: untitled
    # Eidos: untitled
    # Arc System Works: a 'battle melee action' game
    # Kids Station, untitled
    # Cavia: untitled
    # Glef: untitled
    # Jaleco: untitled
    # Spike: untitled
    # Namco: untitled RPG
    # Hamster: untitled
    # Vivendi: untitled
    # Frontier Groove: untitled game
    # Marvelous: untitled game
    I love these vague press releases. ;-)

  • I'm sure (Score:2, Funny)

    by MisterMoney ( 615506 )
    that all these games coming out on 360 will be wholesome, family titles with no sexual situations or violence. unlike that evil GTA game.

  • fta (Score:2, Informative)

    by Reignking ( 832642 )
    1UP contributor Chris Kohler cracked the language code, hurriedly translating the list, which appears below. Remember, though, it's a rough translation and the game titles may not be completely accurate.

    Obviously they just tried to dump this out as quickly is possible, because w/ a little work you could figure out the year for FIFA or which version of Winning 11 is coming.
    • I agree. I'm not sure what is worse, that 1UP.com published such a half-ass article, or that /. picked it up as news. I used to use /. as a filter so I would only read the stuff that matters. Lately the posts have led to a lot of junk articles.

  • Mistitled (Score:3, Informative)

    by MWoody ( 222806 ) on Monday July 25, 2005 @03:07PM (#13159421)
    Launch list? With half of them untitled and the system coming out in a few months? Hardly. This is an in-development list. Title of this article needs to be edited.
  • Bungie is conspicous by its absence. I thought Halo 3 was going to be one of the XBox 360's launch titles?
  • As others have mentioned, this is not a launch list!

    Really a first grader would be smart enough to see that from the article.
  • what part of "list of American, Japanese games in development" sounds like "Launch titles".

  • System Seller? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by warmgun ( 669556 ) on Monday July 25, 2005 @03:55PM (#13159895)
    Anyone see a must-have title that will sell systems? Because I don't.
    • It was supposed to be EA's game based on The Godfather, but that's not coming out until Q1 2006 now...
    • Considering most of this "article" includes a bunch of untitled games, I consider your post flamebait.
    • I've heard that Untitled by Eidos will be the best game ever, but that they may have to change the name if Untitled by Cavia hits the shelves first.
    • The 360 system seller is not a game. It's called Christmas. Seriously, your're going to be hard pressed to find one this holiday season, at least in the US. It will be the hottest electronics this holiday season and it also has some very anticipated games, continuing franchises and new IPs. All in all a great combination. The 360 does not need Halo like the Xbox did.
  • Doesn't Microsoft consider the launch titles to be any title released within a few months of release? If that's the case, it looks like a pretty bare launch.

  • I am disappointed with this list... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by tepp ( 131345 ) on Monday July 25, 2005 @04:13PM (#13160067)
    This isn't an official launch list, and there are a lot of unknowns in this list, but if this is true, I am very disappointed.

    I'm a female gamer, and there isn't anything on here I want to play...

    Most of these games are sports titles. I include racing games in the sports genre. I'm not interested in these. Most women aren't.

    There's FFXI. Now, I have played MMRPG's in the past - Ultima Online, Evercrack, Evercrack 2, and WoW. I've seen/read about FFXI, and decided that I'm not interested, because it has the same problems that plague Evercrack and Evercrack2 - the amount of money needed to buy very rare items that are farmed to death and sold on ebay. That's the same problem that drove me away from the other games... it wasn't about having fun in the game, it was about spending RL cash to get necessary gear. If I was interested in FFXI, I would've joined awhile back. I don't think there will be a mass influx of players racing to play FFXI on the xbox for that reason.

    Then we get into a bunch of boring shooters. There's an FFA shooter - Quake... ho hum. There's some mission based shooters like Call of Duty and Ghost Recon 3. Rah rah, go army. Not interested.

    What's missing from this list, at least to my knowledge, are some good platform based games. Like Conker or Whiplash! or Prince of Persia or Katamari Damacy. Or some medieval based strategy games like Pharoah. Or some traditional fantasy dungeon games like the Gauntlet Series or Baulder's Gate. Or even some really good fantasy fighter games like the well-done LOTR games. Or how about some strategy/story telling single player games, such as the Knights of the Old Republic or Deus Ex or Thief III?

    There's just nothing here that makes me go "I must buy this platform! I must own this game!"

    Heck, even Halo 3 is missing from the lineup... not that I liked Halo 2. I loved Halo 1, but found Halo 2 to be wayyy too boring in the indoor levels and difficult to see your enemies... I found myself straining too hard to make out shapes in the alien levels and to find the unmarked door in a maze of unmarked walls, and gave up.

    Just one big gamer girl's 2 cents...

    Oh, and for the love of god, please, give us an DDR Ultramix or Beatmania for the Xbox 360... I can't believe they pushed Ultramix 3 onto the old XBOX and didn't put it on the 360. Considering the number of sales that Ultramix 2 had, and the growing Xbox-based DDR fan-set, you would think they would try to court them on to the new platform....
    • I'm a female gamer, and there isn't anything on here I want to play...

      Well, I think it's probably good to note that this is a translated list that appears to show the Japanese game lineup. I mean, "Take the A Train X" is definitely not going to be released anywhere else. (On the other hand, all of the American games listed here probably will be released in Japan.)

      What's missing from this list, at least to my knowledge, are some good platform based games.

      Well there are a lot of "untitled" games, and

    • There's FFXI. Now, I have played MMRPG's in the past - Ultima Online, Evercrack, Evercrack 2, and WoW. I've seen/read about FFXI, and decided that I'm not interested, because it has the same problems that plague Evercrack and Evercrack2 - the amount of money needed to buy very rare items that are farmed to death and sold on ebay. That's the same problem that drove me away from the other games... it wasn't about having fun in the game, it was about spending RL cash to get necessary gear.

      If this is the

  • Resident Evil 4 got out earlier this year (at least here in Europe). So they already have a sequel coming out later this year? On a brand new system? Wow. They sure thing make those games fast these days. Or is XBox 360 _that_ easy to develop for?
    • I just read on some videogame site that this is still 2-3 years from release, so while it may be relatively easy to develop for, it still takes a while to understand the new technology so that you can put together a game that looks this good. I have also read that the 360 isn't as easy to develop for as MS would have us think, though. VERY clean code is required of the developers in order to make these games look and run the way MS would have you believe they all will...we'll see what happens with most of t

    • Resident Evil 4 got out earlier this year (at least here in Europe). So they already have a sequel coming out later this year?

      So far, RE 4 has come out only on Gamecube. XBox and PS/2 versions are due end of this year.
      So I doubt the sequel comes out at the same time on XBox 360...
  • Taken from: http://www.majornelson.com/2005/07/25/tokyo-xbox- s ummit/
    Top Japanese Publishers Announce Commitment to Xbox 360
    Blockbuster franchises such as "Resident Evil" and "Ridge Racer" are coming to Xbox 360.

    TOKYO -- July 25, 2005 -- Today at the Xbox&#174; Summit 2005 in Tokyo, more than 50 of Japan's elite game publishers pledged their support for the Xbox 360(TM) video game and entertainment system, underscoring the momentum Microsoft Corp. is amassing behind the next-generation console. The ga

  • MS starting to bend my will (Score:3, Interesting)

    by rAiNsT0rm ( 877553 ) on Tuesday July 26, 2005 @08:41AM (#13164472) Homepage
    I have been dead set against the 360 and PS3 due to what I perceive to be big flaws. These consoles are set to drive development costs through the roof and time to market similarly which will translate into more expensive games, less games over the system life, and only games from major developers that are "sure things" like sports, FPS, and big-name franchises/sequels galore. All the things I hate about modern videogaming. Of all the next gen systems the Revolution is the only one to garner my approval, and the 360 was beyond dead last in my eyes... however they are starting to change that all and I hate to say it.

    I see the 360 as a much more viable system than the PS3 as far as development tools, online support, system design/hardware, and the juggernaut of MS behind it. PS3 has: Unreal 3 engine... and that's about it so far.

    My money will go to the Revolution first and then more likely than not a 360 after the first price drop and a clear vision of titles is available. God that hurts to say (especially after covering PS2 titles for over 4 years in the media) I don't think even Sony's biggest fanboi's can keep the flame burning for much longer as it looks like MS is pulling far ahead in this battle.

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