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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?

Your Honour wrote:
> Xbox IS getting PSO 1 & 2, check out xboxrules.com as they've got
> it in the news section.

Hmm.. XboxRules Vs. SEGA Official Website.. see my point? Face it - Episode 2 and the cards are official to GameCube, but don't worry - the game's not that good anyway.

Actually xbox.com (official site) has a trailer for it and its definatly episodes 1+2. Maybe episode 2 is only on GC but the X-Box version counts as some kinda compilation of the two.

All I know is that Episode 2 and the card battling game are alledgedly (according to SEGA's official website and a good few magazines I've read) exclusive to GameCube. But as I've said before;

The game isn't anything special, so you needent worry! ;)

Make you right there Mav. I really like PSO, but I won't be getting the most out of it because I refuse to pay the subsciption fee for it. I'm sure the likes of Star Wars: Galaxies will be worth it more because you're playing an RPG of a much bigger scale.

In PSO, you get to chat to plenty of people in the lobby, but once you're playing the actual game, you only play alongside 3 other players, so really you don't get any more of an amazing experience than you would in other online games that you can play for free.

No its true, Phantasy Star Online is for the PS2 and X-box

Phantasy Star Online: Edition 1 and 2 is for the Gamecube along with the future Phantasy Star Card Battles.

PSO is rubbish anyway

ooooohhh an enemy

hack hack hack
fzht fzht fzht


next

Sounds like Skies of Arcadia.

Oh dear

For a start SoA has turn based combat, so trying to claim it's a simple hack 'n slash game is stupidity.

Look - everyone. PSO got 5/10 in GamesTM - and that was the GCN version, with added extras! This game's had it's day. Now lets all go and play Star Wars: Galaxies, Skies Of Arcadia and EVE-Online.

Nothing can save the xbox.

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