360 Has Best Launch Lineup Ever?

J. Allard had a chat with Edge magazine about the launch lineup of the Xbox 360, and makes the claim that they have the best launch lineup ever associated with a console. He also talks about the overall vision they had for the launch, and how well their expectations are being met. From the article: "I think it's pretty much spot on. I spoke with someone who was very involved in the planning about three years ago - he came over for about five minutes to drop something off and ended up spending three hours looking at all the capabilities of the machine, and he said, 'Son of a gun, if you guys didn't do 95 per cent of the original vision of the machine!' And I looked at him and said, 'Well, what was the other five per cent, what did we drop?' and he said, 'I don't know. I couldn't find it!'"

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"Launch Lineup" includes titles not available

[Sancho]

at launch. That's the only reason they can make this claim without being laughed out of the universe.

Some story awhile back detailed this and made the example of "Oblivion" as a launch title, even though it won't be available until 2006.

Spin, spin, spin....

No.

[vertinox]

We'll reserve the best launch linup for NES "Duckhunt/Mario" combo catridge.

Remember the times when consoles would come with a game that was good enough to play for very very long time before buying a new game?

Wow

[nocent]

News flash! Microsoft executive claims Microsoft product has best launch ever!

Re:The Xbox 360 philosophy?

[DarKnyht]

"Sitting down with Xbox's J Allard six months ago, at the 360's unveiling, two things became very quickly apparent. The first was that this was a machine built around a philosophy, not a set of tech specs."

Hmm... odd I seem to remember Microsoft and Sony getting into a peeing contest over their specs, and Nintendo being the only one to state that specs didn't matter three months ago.