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The Inside Track
Microsoft Unveils New Market for Bite-Sized Game Titles as Industry Heavyweights Pledge Support for Xbox Live Arcade on Xbox 360

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Peter Moore to Reveal Highly-Anticipated Christmas Holiday Titles and Supporting Publishers to Digital Life Consumer Technology Audience

New York, 14 October, 2005 At the Digital Life consumer technology showcase in New York, Microsoft will reveal the launch window portfolio for Xbox Live® Arcade for Xbox 360™.

Peter Moore, corporate vice president of worldwide marketing and publishing for Xbox at Microsoft, will announce in his Digital Life keynote speech the highly-anticipated Xbox Live Arcade launch titles, as well as Xbox Live Arcade support by the world’s leading publishers including Midway Home Entertainment, Capcom, Electronic Arts, Vivendi Universal Games, Konami, SEGA, Namco and Hudson Soft.

“The next generation of Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360 will enhance the gaming experience for casual and competitive gamers alike, across the globe, providing something for everyone with world-class games and captivating content,” said Moore.

Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360 will launch in the U.S. and Canada on November 22, 2005, simultaneously with the North American launch of the Xbox 360 console. Similarly, the European and Japanese versions of Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360 will launch alongside the European and Japanese console launches on 2 December and 10 December, respectively. The next-generation Xbox Live Arcade online service will be fully integrated into the Xbox 360 Dashboard providing a central destination for Xbox 360 gamers to download new games, access their game collections, check out new releases and experience around-the-game features.

The Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360 launch portfolio will include the following titles through the Christmas holiday season 2005:

* Astropop – Popcap Games
* Bankshot Billiards 2™ – pixelStorm, Inc
* Bejeweled 2 – Popcap Games
* Crystal Quest – Stainless Games
* Feeding Frenzy – Popcap Games
* Gauntlet – Midway Home Entertainment
* Geometry Wars 2 – Bizarre Creations
* Hardwood Backgammon – Silver Creek Entertainment
* Hardwood Hearts – Silver Creek Entertainment
* Hardwood Spades – Silver Creek Entertainment
* Hexic® HD – Microsoft Game Studios
* Hoopworld – Streamline Studios
* Jewel Quest – iWin.com
* Joust – Midway Home Entertainment
* Marble Blast Ultra – GarageGames
* Mutant Storm Reloaded – PomPom Games
* Outpost Kaloki – Wahoo Studios
* Robotron 2084 – Midway Home Entertainment
* SmashTV – Midway Home Entertainment
* Wik: Fable of Souls – Reflexive Entertainment
* Zuma – Popcap Games



As an added bonus, the full version of “Hexic HD,” the Xbox Live Arcade puzzle game, will be included free of charge with every Xbox 360 System at launch. Designed by world famous Tetris® creator Alexey Pajitnov, “Hexic HD” will be preloaded on the Xbox 360 hard drive.

Additionally, Peter Moore will announce that more than 40 publishers and developers have signed on to support Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360 with game titles. These partners include:



· Atari

· Bizarre Creations

· Capcom

· Codemasters

· CTXM

· Digital Eclipse

· Electronic Arts

· Empire Interactive

· Gaia Studios

· GameHouse Studios

· Garage Games

· Gastronaut Studios

· Hamster

· Harmonix

· HipSoft

· Hudson Soft

· iWin

· Konami

· Llamasoft

· Load, Inc

· Mad Doc Software

· Majesco

· Microsoft Game Studios

· Midway Home Entertainment

· Mumbo Jumbo (United Developers)

· Naked Sky Entertainment

· Namco

· Oberon Media

· Pick Up And Play

· pixelStorm, Inc

· PlayFirst

· PomPom Games

· Popcap Games

· Q Entertainment

· RealNetworks, Inc

· Reflexive Entertainment

· Secret Lair Studios

· SEGA

· Silver Creek Entertainment

· SNK Playmore

· Stainless Games

· Streamline Studios

· Tik Games

· Ubisoft

· uWink

· Vivendi Universal Games

· Wahoo Studios

· Wanako Games

· Wild Tangent



Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360 will consistently release new games to the service for gamers to download, with 35 titles planned by summer 2006. Gamers can choose from a variety of genres including action arcade titles, coin-op and retro classics, puzzle games, casual sports games, light strategy titles and card & board games. Games will come from the world’s leading publishers as well as console developers, downloadable game shops and smaller developers alike, creating a great mix of classic favorites and truly innovative titles for the gamer to choose from.

“We’re proud to be part of Xbox Live Arcade on Xbox 360, the world’s first and only destination where gamers can find, download and buy smaller games directly to their console,” said Scott A. Steinberg, Vice President of Marketing, SEGA of America, Inc. “Retro, casual and hardcore gamers will be pleased to have access to the selection of quality SEGA titles we plan to offer via the new Xbox Live Arcade.”

Xbox Live Arcade is powered by Xbox Live Marketplace, enabling gamers to quickly and easily download and unlock Xbox Live Arcade games. Every game in the Xbox Live Arcade will have a free, fully playable trial version that any Xbox Live Gold or Silver member can download onto their hard drive or memory unit.

Note: Earlier this week (11 October 2005), Microsoft and RealNetworks, Inc. announced plans to collaborate in the casual games arena. In this games partnership, RealNetworks will develop a series of new casual games for Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360.
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Discuss :D
 
AWESOME!!!!
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Gauntlet via XBL would rocknation.
 
This is neat. I expect to see all those Japanese devs on the Revolution download service as well.

The only thing is, if you already have a modded XBox, really you can play all these games already and way, way, way more stuff. My brother has one and we were playing Moonwalker (the arcade version not the Genny port) and the Konami Ninja Turtles arcade game on it.
 
Matlock said:
Is that just a PR? Just trying to confirm so I can use it.
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Nope, I wrote it myself ;)
It's a MS PR, I did not get it myself because MS France sucks, but MS sweden sent it to manager who's doing the swedish version of the site.
 
Blimblim said:
Nope, I wrote it myself ;)
It's a MS PR, I did not get it myself because MS France sucks, but MS sweden sent it to manager who's doing the swedish version of the site.
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Blast! :)

Microsoft's US press sites are really, really lackluster in comparison to the rest of the world's, I guess.

Either way, great job translating.
 
soundwave05 said:
This is neat. I expect to see all those Japanese devs on the Revolution download service as well.

The only thing is, if you already have a modded XBox, really you can play all these games already and way, way, way more stuff. My brother has one and we were playing Moonwalker (the arcade version not the Genny port) and the Konami Ninja Turtles arcade game on it.
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The draw could also be newer arcade titles. 360 has enough horsepower to emulate formats like Naomi 2 or System 258 really.... can't download Virtua Fighter 4FT or Tekken 5DR on Xbox 1. ;)
 
The support of companies like Hudson Soft, Namco, Capcom, and Sega, really sounds exciting. The arcade catalog of these companies is great and given the relative ease of distribution, I'm hoping we'll see a lot of these companies arcade stuff
 
jarrod said:
The draw could also be newer arcade titles. 360 has enough horsepower to emulate formats like Naomi 2 or System 258 really.... can't download Virtua Fighter 4FT or Tekken 5DR on Xbox 1. ;)
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I think (IMHO) that MS will have some size limitation for XBLA titles, like they must fit on a memory card or something like that.
 
jarrod said:
The draw could also be newer arcade titles. 360 has enough horsepower to emulate formats like Naomi 2 or System 258 really.... can't download Virtua Fighter 4FT or Tekken 5DR on Xbox 1. ;)
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I doubt you'll be seeing either of those types of titles.

Modded XBox 360 ... now that might be a different story.
 
HARMONIX! Schweet! I would kill for a "Frequency" game where I actually get to pick the songs as opposed to their mostly crappy terrible selections. I still have nightmares about that awful Mekon song. Better yet if Frequency and Vib Ribbon could somehow make sweet love and have some perfect wonderbaby music game!

They got good support and I'm really curious to see what some of them have in store Capcom, Konami, and Sega especially. I'm even more curious about the prices when Game Tap is only $15 a month, while some titles will be $5 or $10 is that the high celing meaning we'll never get bigger titles as Arcade titles only?
 
As long as this service is included as part of the regular Xbox Live account then it sounds great. If they charge per download over and above the account charge...booo.
 
stewy said:
As long as this service is included as part of the regular Xbox Live account then it sounds great. If they charge per download over and above the account charge...booo.
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Ignorance is bliss. :lol
 
FUCKING AWESOME!

* Gauntlet – Midway Home Entertainment
* Joust – Midway Home Entertainment
* Robotron 2084 – Midway Home Entertainment
* SmashTV – Midway Home Entertainment

Please be ARCADE PERFECT... I want it to look like MAME looks on my PC!

40 DAYS! Please go by fast!
 
Xenon said:
So what will be the cost?
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You need a live silver account (free), then it's pay per game. The princing has not been announced yet, but I hear it should be cheaper than the current Live Arcade ($15 per game IIRC).
 
I hope that most of these games have the ability to be played multiplayer online. Otherwise, honestly...no sale. It'd be fun to get matched with someone for Smash TV or Gauntlet. But if it's not online, I'll just load up Midway Arcade Classics.
 
i'm gonna take a shot and say these pubs will follow the same price points as mobile phone gaming and charge 3.99-6.99 per game. that would rock.
 
That's is great to hear it. More supports from great software houses.

Hope with some great retro with enhancing GFX from:

Sega:

Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder, arcade

Cacom:
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Dungeons & Dragons : Shadow over Mystara
Dungeons & Dragons : Tower of Doom

co-playing on LIVE :sweet

yes they have to cost less than $10 a game.
 
Awesome. This has way more potential to sway me toward an Xbox 360 purchase than some dumb racing game. :D

SEGA!

Don't deny us our System 16 (and 18) collection! DO NOT FUCK THIS UP WITH ANOTHER GENESIS REHASH.

AHHHHHHH!!!! Where are my meds!?!?
 
Blimblim said:
You need a live silver account (free), then it's pay per game. The princing has not been announced yet, but I hear it should be cheaper than the current Live Arcade ($15 per game IIRC).
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And that is what killed the first version of XBL Arcade. These need to be at least 5 bucks for this too succeed. I'm not gonna spend 10 bucks on Smash TV when I can go buy the collection it's on for cheaper then 20 bucks AND get 20 or more games on top of that.

Let's see if MS learned their lesson.
 
D3VI0US said:
Ignorance is bliss. :lol
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Did it say somewhere in that article that they would charge for the games over and above the Live membership? Not the free Live shit, but the Gold membership?

Did I miss that somehow?
 
Ponn01 said:
And that is what killed the first version of XBL Arcade. These need to be at least 5 bucks for this too succeed. I'm not gonna spend 10 bucks on Smash TV when I can go buy the collection it's on for cheaper then 20 bucks AND get 20 or more games on top of that.

Let's see if MS learned their lesson.
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http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1308&Itemid=2&limit=1&limitstart=1
Now our Microsoft handlers were a bit shy about talking prices, but our sources have confided that games on Xbox Live Arcade will be priced at either $5 or $10, varying from game to game.
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SuperPac said:
I hope that most of these games have the ability to be played multiplayer online. Otherwise, honestly...no sale. It'd be fun to get matched with someone for Smash TV or Gauntlet. But if it's not online, I'll just load up Midway Arcade Classics.
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Jesiatha pretty much hinted at this in the other XB Live Arcade thread.

Xbox Live Arcade may be a beast of its own.
 
Note to Sega:

Please release all the great online games from the Dreamcast like Chu-Chu Rocket, Alien Front Online, Ooga Booga and others and I will be one happy camper.
 
stewy said:
Did it say somewhere in that article that they would charge for the games over and above the Live membership? Not the free Live shit, but the Gold membership?

Did I miss that somehow?
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They are charging for XBL Arcade games, though you can play demos of the games for free. Games will run between $5-10, and since you're buying ala carte, if you only like a few retro games you don't need to buy a collection that may have 20 games but only one you want to play -- you buy the one you want to play. Cheaper, perhaps, in the long run. And presumably you'll also be able to play them online with other people and rank in on a worldwide scoreboard. Very excellent.
 
$5 for simpler games and older ports and $10 for original content, hopefully. $5 is the sweet spot. Hopefully most or all games will have co-op and Live support.

edit: Give me Texas Hold'em with Video Chat support and I'll be HOOKED.
 
Taker666 said:
Nintendo should never reveal anything until a week before they launch.
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but the original xbox had XBLA before the revolution features were announced sooo....
 
Some of you guys think that Nintendo invented the try-before-you-buy download portal for arcade/indy games?

Not to mention that Arcade is older than Nintendo's public plans.
 
Taker666 said:
Nintendo should never reveal anything until a week before they launch.
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I think you're joking... I hope you're joking, because this has probably been in the planning stages for years.
 
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