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XB360 Launch date confirmed.

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  • 15-09-2005 10:53am
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    KTRIC
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    According to the Register Microsoft have announced the launch date for Europe as the 2nd of December.

    MS reveals Xbox 360 release dates
    By Tony Smith
    Published Thursday 15th September 2005 09:03 GMT
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    Microsoft will release its next-generation Xbox 360 games console on Tuesday, 22 November, the software giant announced last night.

    Consumers in Europe will be able to get their mitts on the machine on Friday, 2 December - though we note Amazon.co.uk still has 28 November down as the release date, a timeframe more consistent with Microsoft's earlier prognostications - while Japanese buyers can expect to see the system on Saturday, 10 December.

    The new Xbox will ship in Australia, Colombia, Hong Kong, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan sometime in "2006", Microsoft added.

    Microsoft has already revealed US, UK and European pricing, and yesterday it announced what Japanese buyers will pay: ¥37,900 ($344) for the full package, including the console's removable 20GB hard disk, wireless controller, remote control, headset, and Ethernet and AV cables.

    Microsoft made the announcement on the eve of the Tokyo Games Show. Japan remains a tricky market for the company, which is hoping to dent Sony's colossal PlayStation-driven market share rather more this time round than it managed with the original Xbox.

    Then, Microsoft was criticised for trying to win over Japanese gamers with titles favoured by Western players. Japanese consumers favour different styles of game to their North American and European counterparts, and Microsoft was accused of failing to understand such cultural differences.

    In a bid to get the product right for Japanese consumers, Microsoft was forced to delay the Xbox's introduction, from December 2001 to February 2002. Hints that it was pondering such a move surfaced way back in March 2001. It did little good, in any case. Microsoft went on to take the axe to its Japanese Xbox workforce in March 2003, before going on to announce a strategic rethink of the Japanese market the following July. Xbox has yet to dent Sony or Nintendo's sales in the country, however.

    This time round, Microsoft has made sure it has recruited some of the biggest names in Japanese gaming to the cause. It said it would be showing titles from Square Enix, Genki, Konami, Taito, Namco and others at the Tokyo Games Show. ®
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    flogen
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    December? LIARS!!! I feel cheated.


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    srdb20
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    Ah look on the brightside it gives you more time to save up for more GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

    Its a blessing in disguise


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    KTRIC
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    flogen wrote:
    December? LIARS!!! I feel cheated.


    You and me both mate.


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    amp
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    Here's a link with more info, including the launch game line up:
    http://www.xbox.com/en-US/news/2005/0914-xbox360launchdates.htm


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    iregk
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    You feel cheated, why becase you have to wait a while week longer than you thought!!!


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    flogen
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    iregk wrote:
    You feel cheated, why becase you have to wait a while week longer than you thought!!!

    yes! I might not get it anymore, I'll just buy a couple of psp's instead.

    Seriously though, I was starting to figure that it would slip out of november for us, after the late US launch rumours, I figured it would be more than a couple of days gap between there and here.

    I just hope the same doesn't happen with Nintendo's christmas lineup, I think Mario Kart is down for an early december launch in the US.


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    CiDeRmAn
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    Mario Kart? December, bugger! I will have to bring it in from Jap so, ah well such is life.
    But really, Xbox 360 in Dec, what are they thinking?
    How are we going to hold on that long, the money is burning a hole in my pocket as it stands, I have an over whelming desire to buy all manner of things with the €550 so far raised. It better come soon or I will blow it on ipods, phones, heavens knows what.

    Buy a 1.5 firmware psp for homebrew and emus, and a standard one for games and movies and the like, thats €500 right there....

    ...and I have €550, thats 2 machines and a game, feck! thats another way to blow my xbox360 money, its just not fair, ideas are coming 2 a minute now!


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    mcgovern
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    Guess I dont need to be in such a hurry to pre-order so :(


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