Microsoft Discusses Xbox E3 No-Shows

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday June 1, 2004 @11:43PM from the bye-bye-gamie dept.

Thanks to GameSpy for its 'Sole Food' column discussing why certain Xbox games were missing from Microsoft's line-up at last month's E3 show in Los Angeles. Titles mentioned, with included late-breaking Microsoft response, include "part action, part collectible-card game" Phantom Dust ("Microsoft Game Studios has decided to not publish Phantom Dust for North America"), action title and "everyone's favorite goggle-wearing, vacuum-wielding, time-shifting cat" Blinx 2 (We plan to make an official announcement after E3"), and "console massively multiplayer online RPG" True Fantasy Live Online ("The Level 5 team is focusing on developing and polishing the game for the Japanese release this winter, and as a result the timing of the U.S. release of the game is still undetermined.")

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Re:japan? by csumk · 2004-06-02 00:00 · Score: 5, Interesting

Whilst the eastern market may not be massive, it is reasonably significant. With the japanese market comes the japanese developers - if your console isn't popular in japan the these developers are less likely to produce games on it. You are only going to get lazy ports at best. MS needs developers like Square producing games for the XBox if it is to really challenge Sony.