Two million sold since June; Platform holder predicts its ‘best ever Christmas’ Microsoft has told MCV that Xbox 360 has cruised past seven million sales in Europe. The firm told MCV this week that the combination of Xbox 360’s September price cut and blanket Q4 marketing had seen the console’s unit sales accelerate across EMEA.
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"XNA Developer Connection's Walbourn discusses the rise of 64-bit computing and gaming on Windows, explaining the technical specifics and programming advantages of 64-bit"
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"Included in said delivery was a handful of games and, most notably, a new 360 signed by the Xbox team, Bungie (including replacement artwork by Rooster Teeth Comics' Luke McKay) and, with the flourish of a solid gold pen, Bill Gates. Whether you call it an act of kindness or a lesson in public relations, we think it's a neat gesture from the folks at Microsoft..."
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Part of Microsoft's $26 million settlement agreement with [Immersion] reportedly stipulated that it would be entitled to a payment in the event that Immersion reached a settlement with Sony as well. Microsoft and Immersion are back in court over this latest dispute, with Microsoft aiming to block law firm Irell and Manella from representing Immersion in the case. Judge Ricardo Martinez refused the motion, however, to disqualify all of the firm's attorneys.
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So, one of the big stories from earlier this week was Kotaku's one on Microsoft apparently 'cutting XBLA royalties in half'.One of the problems here, of course, is that Kotaku's report only had one side of the story - and Microsoft will not discuss original or current royalty rates in public. Which leads us to a problem to be resolved - did Microsoft really cut its XBLA royalty rates in half without _ANY_ changes to the developer package?The answer is no.
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Several bloggers got to throw questions at Chris Satchell, Aaron Greenberg and John Schappert. They answered all the questions and even recruited Ron Workman to their PR team. Here are the bullets as I wrote them down: XNA Community Program,360 Shortage,Xbox Live Downtime Over The Holidays,Xbox 360 Blu-Ray Player Possibilities,Red Ring Of Death Still An Issue?,UT3 Mods And DIY Hard Drive Upgrades(Sony allows this why not MS),GTAIV DLC,Mass Effect Sex Scandal,Spring Dashboard Update.
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In the latest issue of EGM, rumor hound Q-man got a really interesting tidbit from a mole at Microsoft: a secret first party sequel is already being worked on for the next Xbox console.
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"We wrap up our three-part series with a look at Microsoft. The company recently released its fall update, which added a slew of changes to the Xbox 360. Best of all, several of the things it changed and added addressed complaints that users had been grumbling about for a long while. That’s not to say Microsoft can kick back and take it easy now—we have even more demands, including a couple that have been bugging us for nearly two years."
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Microsoft has announced that it saw a 58 percent increase in users buying XBLA games during its five-week Summer of Arcade program. The period saw a number of high profile games released, including Castle Crashers, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2, Bionic Commando: Rearmed and Braid. Microsoft further announced that August broke the monthly revenue high by 67 percent.
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X360 is sold out across the whole country. It's so sold out that Microsoft Japan actually put out an official statement about the situation in The Land of the Rising Sun, apologizing for the lack of consoles. Since demand has eclipsed supply, Microsoft's supply has gone totally dry. The company is ramping up production, and the console will not be shipped to stores until next month.
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