Xbox 360

By XanTium According to an interview with The Wall Street Journal, a Microsoft exec noted that about 75% of hardware sales take place following a price cut below $200. What's more, GameStop (GME) has boosted its expectations for Xbox 360 sales ...

By XanTium Pricing is handled on a region-by-region basis. We do not have a price drop in this region to announce", was the official word. The news means that the Xbox 360 Arcade official price is now £48 more expensive in the UK than the US. ...

By XanTium From majornelson.com (http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/09/03/xbox-360-price-cut-now-us-199.aspx ): [QUOTE] It's official: We've got an Xbox 360 price cut coming to the US. Our friends in Japan announced their price cut earlier this week, but now it's time to roll one out here. As...

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By XanTium Though Japan has traditionally been a weak market for the Xbox 360, Microsoft recently applied price cuts of about 30 percent there, following a complete sellout thanks to the launch of popular RPG Tales of Vesperia. The basic Arcade SKU was discounted to to ¥19,800 ($183), the 60GB Pro to...

By XanTium Your overly Wii-like Avatar's comic-style text balloon displays your gamercard's motto. EVERY Xbox 360 game's Xbox.com information (including game description, features and screenshots) is pulled into the dashboard while browsing the Xbox Live Marketplace.

By XanTium Bogus or not bogus?: Bogus that the fall Xbox Live dashboard update is a lock for November. However, given that the hardware maker's last two fall updates arrived at the end of October and the beginning of December, a November launch is certainly possible. QUOTE]

By XanTium According to the source, Microsoft will be positioning the Arcade bundle to be in direct competition with the Wii, meaning that the marketing push behind it will focus on family friendly entertainment. With family oriented games on the packaging, the Arcade console will come packaged w...

By XanTium He added: "Microsoft expected a demand for the 60GB model but it just hasn't come yet." A source from Gamestation also reported lower than expected sales but insisted they "are still selling ok but just not at the rate Microsoft had wanted."

By XanTium Too Human" is an epic action game with integrated role-playing game elements, and will be available in Europe on Aug. 29 - exclusively for Xbox 360. The game features a rich storyline with deep character development, both hallmarks of Silicon Knights' legendary tradition of video game de...

By XanTium Microsoft is set to enable Windows users to burn Blu-ray discs directly from their desktop, potentially signalling a shift in attitude towards the format. The move could signal a more general shift in attitude towards Blu-ray on Microsoft's part. Indeed, it could be the first step toward...

By XanTium From gamasutra.com: QUOTE] The biggest story this month is clearly in the hardware category, with all the major consoles posting lower than expected results. For today, we will specifically analyze the Xbox 360, as it posted one of the most disappointing results of the year.

By XanTium Overall, Xbox 360 garnered the most honorees with 15, followed by the Playstation 3's 14, while Nintendo's Wii offered only four winning titles. The Xbox 360's strengths were apparent as it was the only platform to offer all five nominees in the Best Downloadable Content category, and fo...

By XanTium Beginning this week, more than 12 million Xbox LIVE members worldwide can download music videos by featured WMG artists from Xbox LIVE Marketplace and watch them on their Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system. The music videos will be from WMG's world-renowned roster of artists i...

By XanTium After pioneering some groundbreaking music activity over the summer, including an exclusive gig at Fabric headlined by Pendulum, the Xbox May Days, Xbox 360 Presents Rock Band Live, The Xbox Weekenders at Ibiza Rocks Hotel and unique activity at the Stag and Dagger, Great Escape and T i...

By XanTium But according to NPD information obtained from Microsoft by GamesIndustry.biz, that Nintendo claim appears to be wrong: Total third party sales for the Xbox 360 since launch is currently 67,929,999 units, followed by the Wii at 33,394,311 units and the PlayStation 3 at 19,976,325 unit...

By XanTium Xbox 360 is just one of three Xbox 360 gaming and entertainment systems Microsoft offers. Microsoft's Xbox 360 Arcade, which comes with a 256MB memory unit and five Xbox LIVE Arcade games is great value for the whole family to enjoy at £159.99 (ERP), while the Xbox 360 Elite, with a huge 120GB...

By XanTium Hitting the Xbox 360 release list at IGN was pretty exciting--and I don't think it comes from any biases I might have working on TeamXbox. Exclusive games from the list include Too Human, Tales of Vesperia, Infinite Undiscovery, Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, Warhammer: Battle March...

By XanTium Ah, I have found a difference! This is the first Xbox 360 I have seen that does not have the bottom-mounted memory chips. I had heard on the interwebs these have been a heat problem in the past (or moreso that people fixed problems by improving their heat sink to the case) so I'm sure this will he...

By XanTium From gamasutra.com: QUOTE] But despite the similarity, Xbox 360 users still pay subscription fees for the Xbox Live Gold multiplayer matching service, while PC gamers will not. Does Microsoft see a dichotomy here? Full Story: gamasutra.com

By XanTium Furthermore, Toriyama also revealed that, as of July 29, his team hasn't yet received the tools needed to begin work on the Xbox 360 version of FFXIII. "I'm telling them to not think about the Xbox 360 right now," he said. "We can think about it after the development kits arrive."

By XanTium And the issue isn't just about the game being too big, Hollenshead says that developers lose upwards of 2 gigs of space per a disc because of information Microsoft requires developers to put on the discs. While allowing the game to be installed on the Xbox 360's harddrive may help, it actual...

By XanTium With the core gamer market in the US pretty much wrapped up and PS3 snapping at Xbox 360's heels in every territory, Microsoft needs to extend its console's reach. And it's looking to Europe to do that. Later, when we meet John Schappert, vice president of Live, software and services, he call...

By XanTium Full Story: xhavok87.wordpress.com From xhavok87.wordpress.com (http://xhavok87.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/xbox-360-fall-dashboard-08-leaked/ ): [QUOTE] The new "Xbox Experience" Fall Dashboard has been leaked on the web and I had a chance to crack at it. Update9: It has finally be...

By XanTium Full Story: gamasutra.com From gamasutra.com (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=19519 ): [QUOTE] Talking at Microsoft's GameFest event in Seattle, the company's Cameron Egbert and Dan Kroymann have been discussing the creation of avatars for the Xbox 360, re...

By XanTium First, download XNA Game Studio, the free game development tool from Microsoft. It's free and works with Visual Studio or Visual C# Express Edition. If you've never made a game before, the XNA Creators Club website has tons of samples, tutorials, even whole video guides to game creation. Ju...

By XanTium From computerandvideogames.com: QUOTE] If you don't like the look of the new Xbox 360 Dashboard unveiled at E3 last week, then "you don't actually have to use it," says Microsoft's Xbox Live director of programming Larry 'Major Nelson' Hryb.

By XanTium From gamespot.com (http://www.gamespot.com/features/6194093/index.html?tag=top_stories;title;1 ): [QUOTE] One of the not-so-cosmetic changes in the fall update will be the ability to let you play your games directly from the hard disk. The new feature will let users install all of t...

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By XanTium 3. Frankie and Peter Jackson's Halo Chronicles : The Microsoft run project didn't have make a peep. 4. Alan Wake : The Microsoft game studio action horror game was completely absent. That is not a good sign. Full Story: blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com

By XanTium From the press release: QUOTE] Microsoft is giving consumers more gigabytes for their buck. The company today announced an Xbox 360? console with triple the storage space of the original console, but for the same price of $349 (U.S.) estimated retail price.

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By XanTium Prompted by what Microsoft viewed as an unacceptable number of repairs to Xbox 360 consoles, a year ago Microsoft announced an expansion of its Xbox 360 warranty. Effective 5 July, 2007, any original retail Xbox 360 customer who experiences a general hardware failure indicated by three...

By XanTium Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft's director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, recently sat down with Gamasutra to discuss Microsoft's progress and plans. He discussed the Asian markets, digital distribution and the upcoming game creation avenues offered by XNA, the idea of...

By XanTium QUOTE] Talking to Gamasutra Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg, director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, has been commenting on Microsoft's attempts to attract casual gamers, suggesting that Wii customers are "going to want to graduate to an Xbox 360 experience" over time.

By XanTium Vista Media Center really sets itself apart from any other DVR solution out there, and the single greatest advantage Vista Media Center (VMC) has over the other options -- like the TiVo HD -- is the ability to have multiple Media Center Extenders. There really isn't any better way out there...

By XanTium It strikes me that the right business model for Microsoft and Netflix is that they both participate for free, and I think the idea is that Netflix has 8 million subs in the U.S. and Microsoft has probably pretty close to that many Xbox Live members in the U.S., and there's probably not 100 percent...

By XanTium QUOTE] I had a tip off today that August 22nd is when Microsoft is scheduled to finish the first batch of "Jasper" motherboard powered Xbox 360. This are going to use a newer cooler 65 nm GPU as well as a 65 nm CPU. They are expected to hit the stores on the first week of September 2008.

By XanTium Microsoft sales data shows Xbox 360 consoles saw a 54% lift week-over-week as a result of "Grand Theft Auto IV," and retailers are reporting that roughly four out of every 10 Xbox 360 consoles sold included the sale of a copy of "Grand Theft Auto IV." (Microsoft internal data)

By XanTium Full Story: consumerist.com From consumerist.com (http://consumerist.com/5007862/how-to-quickly-contact-intelligent-life-at-xbox-customer-service ): [QUOTE] Jason at Doombot has developed a process for reaching intelligent life at XBOX customer service. He discovered t...

By XanTium A few minutes ago, the team released a system update for the Xbox 360 over Xbox LIVE. Sometime over the next few hours when you sign in to Xbox LIVE you'll recieve a prompt to accept this mandatory update. This update contains code to 'prepare for future growth of the service.' There are no other...

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By XanTium For its study, SquareTrade tracked 27 Xbox 360 Elites, 57 Cores and 956 Premiums. Out of the 171 claims reported (60 percent), 102 were general hardware failures (Red Ring of Death). Of the other 69 claims: 18% were disc read errors. 13% were video card failures. 13% were hard drive freezes.

By XanTium Microsoft Won't Release a Blu-ray Player * Microsoft will Continue to Try to Break into Family Gaming * Not Every Big 2008 Title Releases in 2008 * We'll Stop Getting Three Red Lights E-Mails by December 2008 [/QUOTE] ...