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New Xbox Live Game Every Week
Eurogamer reports that, with Xbox Live Wednesdays already a hit, Microsoft intends to continue releasing a new XBLA title every week for the near future. The company has announced their intention to have 160 titles for their next-gen console available by the end of the year, and some 30 of those may be Xbox Live Arcade titles. From the article: "The idea is to allow Xbox 360 owners who do not own hard disks to store downloaded Live Arcade games on memory units, which allow for 64MB of data. However, with PlayStation 3 in particular likely to allow for much larger downloadable games, Microsoft runs the risk of losing out on bigger releases despite the impressive momentum Live Arcade has already built up. Erickson admits that the company is already considering the possibilities of larger memory units, but there's no word on hard-disk-only Live Arcade games or other digitally distributed titles - although it's important to note that the latter, which Microsoft is certainly considering, would fall outside his remit."
360 games are selling like crazy in the US. Few weeks ago 7 of the top 10 games sold in America were 360 games (PS2 had the #10 spot with Kingdom Hearts, New Super Mario Bros #1, DDR for Gamecube somewhere in the middle).
It's impossible to accurately track video game sales in the US. Where did you get these numbers from? If they're from the NPD Group (which is likely), they are not representative of all sales. NPD does not get sales reports from all retailers (including a little place called Wal-Mart).
360 also has the highest games sold/console ratio of any major console.
Link plz thx.
Have to chuckle at the people who say the system has a limited library.
Have to chuckle at people who think sales data represents a broad, diverse library. Have to chuckle also at people who can't write complete sentences.