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"DOAX Volleyball to save Xbox in Japan?"

From C&VG.com:

Tecmo's Xbox "sports" title, Dead or Alive Xtreme Volleyball, has rocketed to the top of the Japanese charts after impressive day one sales. The top-heavy title shifted 72,881 in its first day at retail, beating of the challenge of Armored Core 3 on PS2, which sold 67,119 units.
This makes DOAX Volleyball the fastest selling Xbox title ever in Japan, which will bring cheer to developer Tecmo, whose Dead or Alive 3 is also the biggest selling Xbox title overall in Japan, with 154,906 units sold. But to add a little perspective, this pales in comparison to the millions already shifted by Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire on GBA.

And while the shock revelation that sex sells sinks in, it will be interesting to see what impact the title will have on struggling sales of Xbox hardware in the Far East.


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Hopefully this game will help lift sales of the Xbox, and with Live launched along with PSO 1+2, maybe Xbox will start to look a bit more lively over there.

Thoughts?

is there any plans for sega to make any sonic games for xbox

GC has them.


Sega likes us too....

:D

I also could of sworn that Episode II was exclusive. Or that it has at least exclusive areas and features.

I'm sure of it.

Cyclone wrote:
> I also could of sworn that Episode II was exclusive. Or that it has at
> least exclusive areas and features.
>
> I'm sure of it.

Me too Cyclone. I'm going to look into that.

JAZZY-JACK wrote:
> is there any plans for sega to make any sonic games for xbox

No, the branch behind the Sonic games have sworn allegiance to GameCube ;).

Yep, Episode II is exclusive to Nintendo GameCube. Need proof? How about the official website?

http://www.sega.com/games/ [SPACE] post_gamegame.jhtml?PRODID=10113

LOL Japanease people are so funny.

This is a nation that had extra animations put in Streetfighter games so they could see the girls knickers.

They are such pervs.

DOAX Volleyball isnt all just Volleyball though, apparently you can go into a Casino and play Black Jack and stuff.

Oooooooo, blackjack. I play that quite a bit at work. We're not supposed to of course but after our football games upstairs were sussed, me and 2 others climbed up one of the highest stacks on the top floor of the warehouse, moved a few boxes around and made what we nicknamed the "speak easy" - anyone with any knowledge of prohibition in the States during the 1920's will understand the meaning of the name. ;-)

Basically, once the main work has run out, me and a few others climb upto the speak easy and play blackjack with porn cards that are stocked by the company. Played it for like 3 hours today. ;-))

And just as a quick brag - I was kicking butt today. I got pasted with a 20 card pick and still won. :-) And in case you're clued up on the rules and wonder how I got in that situation - we use 2 decks of cards so that more people can join in. ;-)

We play cards too.

Or used to, until I won all the money....and we got bored.

And I see Episode II is exclusive.

Oh, and Skies Of Arcadia too?

Excellent...

:D

PSO on the Gamecube has edition 2 and in the future will get card battles.... X-box and PS2 does not.

DOAX got to number 2 and it rose the sales slightly but not dramatically as it is still definatly in third position for the week.