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NObody can explain what just happened in japan, the land of sony n nintendo. I guess this will show some anti western japanese gamers to reconsider the odd of buying an Xbox 360.

I need to do my part and go buy some games this weekend //(^_^)==--

Well, I can't wait when all games support DirectX10 and when this come, finally PC will at least look much better than consoles.

I also heard that Xbox 360 GPU unified shader and supports shader Model 3.0+ so at least it won't lose as many features that will be on DirectX10 pc games compare to a console that has only older GPU.

EA's makin' tons of money on Xbox 360 without even try hard on advertising... well, business is like this and I don't think Sony bandwagon can spin this in any favorable way either...

I think since their reports are getting more important each month and some game console makers can get free advertisement from it, NPD decided to halt their monthly free report and ask console makers to pay more money for it. Just think about it.

Maybe the jape people don't really like 3d Mario? Or maybe the wii really had shortages in japan.

Another one thing, since Xbox 360 has been out for 2 years older games cannot be ignored completely and not just upcoming games( like a certain console).

Imagine a new guy go a to store to buy a brand new xbox 360, he will definitely get older and sometimes already discounted games.

The list on their mind will be likely like this:

Gears of War, Dead Rising, Call of Duty 3, Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell DA, Oblivion, Blue Dragon, Forza 2, PGR3,4, Ghost Recon AW2, DOA4, Crackdown, Viva Pinata(lol),Lost Planet, etc.

I wonder maybe this is the reason that Xbox 360 attach rate is very huge.

I killed it! I won the Fanswags!

1. Windows Vista Like themes, all customizable blades background.

2. Online radio station, can play and listen to radio. Just like the background music players.

3. Xbox Live video Blog. This can really create a n interactive Community beyond gaming.

4. More codecs support. Divx, etc.

5. Internet Browser.

6. update to DVD drive to slow the speed down a little so that it can further reduce the awful sound that the xbox 360 drive make.

7. Multiple Realtime Chatting( Windows Messenger)

Anyway, even though xbox games sold more in 2 years than in one year only(ps3, wii), since the numbers of the hardware that sold over 2 years also increasing, this is still a good news for MS.

The only problem is since it's great games and services that sells the xbox 360 compare to hype n casual( wii) and hardware potentials 4D gaming( ps3), when AAA games numbers slow down in the future, so will the numbers of Xbox 360 sold every month.

The only thing that MS have to do is just continue the flow of great games to survive which i believe they can.