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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?

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! ;)

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.

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.

Savatt78 wrote:
> As far as volleyball games go, this seems to be about the best option
> you can get because besides playing the actual volleyball, you can
> visit arcades, casinos, etc.

Despite the extras and 'gifted' ladies, the game's going to have to have at least the gameplay of Sega's Beach Spikers to stand any kind of chance at all.

Nomad $oul wrote:
> Question: take away the chicks and the 'bouncy breast technology' and
> would anyone buy this game?
>
> Answer: no.

Yea, the honest truth is that I wouldnt buy it. But Im gettin it for nowt, so I can't complain.

:)

*scratches head*

That's some funky fairy tale books you read, I can't remember the one about the Bounty Hunter crash landing on a planet and blowing the crap out of some alien punks.

Then again I never was much of a reader.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Oh and DOA: Volleyball is embarassing.
>
> Do yourselves a favour and buy yourselves a nudey mag and a decent
> game.

And while we're at it, you could save money by just buying a fairy tale book - lot cheaper than buying a Ninty game to do the same thing. ;-)

Oh and DOA: Volleyball is embarassing.

Do yourselves a favour and buy yourselves a nudey mag and a decent game.

I'm sure that Xboxrules.com whatever that is don't know something that the official Sega website doesn't.

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