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[Redbeard]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/news/news_story.php(que)id=120272

The Xbox 360 will have twenty titles available at launch at its debut in Japan - that's according to Munetatsu Matsui, editor-in-chief of the highly respected Famitsu Xbox mag, speaking in a round table discussion in the current issue.

Elsewhere in the piece Matsui-san also hinted that the Xbox 360 had some secret functions which were currently unknown at this time and would be revealed one year into market by a Live update.

 

[Barnimal]

inflatable DOA babe pops out of the USB port perhaps? "its a celebration bitch"

 

[sprsk]

i like how secret features is just marketing spin for "stuff that isnt ready yet sorry :/"

 

[radioheadrule83]

backwards comptability?

Could it record video by any chance?

 

[The Main Event]

Elsewhere in the piece Matsui-san also hinted that the Xbox 360 had some secret functions which were currently unknown at this time and would be revealed one year into market by a Live update.

Revolution!!! (2)

 

[Firest0rm]

i like how secret features is just marketing spin for "stuff that isnt ready yet sorry :/"

I think their talking about the BC .

 

[FiRez]

Elsewhere in the piece Matsui-san also hinted that the Xbox 360 had some secret functions which were currently unknown at this time and would be revealed one year into market by a Live update

I read somewhere that MS will put a kind of virtual garden inside the dashboard that will grown up depending of the numbers of games that you have played and the achievements inside those games.

edit: after reading my own post I think it sounds like BS, but I seriously read that somewhere

i like how secret features is just marketing spin for "stuff that isnt ready yet sorry :/

W O W

 

[Mrbob]

Hmmm, why would it take an extra year to get BC working in Japan Xboxen360?

20 launch titles is pretty impressive.

 

[Geek]

20 launch titles is pretty impressive.

Half will be super hi def mahjongg games. The other half will be pachislot.

 

[3rdman]

I think their talking about the BC .

It's not BC...they've already said on many occasions that it'll have BC on day one opf launch. Its the number of titles initially available that is up in the air.

Interesting about this unlockable feature...My initial guess would be similiar to how Live 2.0 was introduced...extra features for Live. But, this makes it sound like its a part of the hardware...Hmmm.

 

[thorns]

doa4
chrome hounds
blue dragon
enchant arm
that tetris game
frame city killer
dead rising
???

 

[Redbeard]

Mabye they'll let you download old Master System, Genesis, and Saturn games.

 

[PhatSaqs]

doa4
chrome hounds
blue dragon
enchant arm
that tetris game
frame city killer
dead rising
???

PGR3
Kameo
PD0
FF 11
99 Nights

 

[Prine]

TGS??

 

[thorns]

PGR3
Kameo
PD0
FF 11
99 Nights

ff 11 is going to be beta only at launch right?
I'm not sure if 99 nights is supposed to be for launch

even then there's around 8 missing.
there are still 2 game republic games we don't know about yet though..

we should know more at TGS I guess.

 

[bloke]

On official japanese Xbox360 page there's a list of games they'll be releasing. Half of them probably won't make for launch, guess there's still some surprises left, I mean no games from Konami, Koei, Bandai, Sega Japan (besides publishing CH) and Atlus announced yet, only one from Capcom.

http://www.xbox.com/ja-jp/xbox360/games.htm

 

[Jeff-DSA]

If it was such a cool feature, why not use it to drive the hype train just a little harder?

btw, radioheadrule, your new avatar rocks!

 

[CygnusXI]

"secret functions" revealed after a year(?)

BSOD

You heard it here first!
:lol

 

[Guy LeDouche]

Could it record video by any chance?

it would need video-in, iirc

 

[Particle Physicist]

taking a cue from sony, the xbox360's cpu speed will be increased with an update from live. one year from now.

 

[Cold-Steel]

Sounds more like a dashboard upgrade to me.

Or a happy birthday message.

 

[VictimOfGrief]

I smell fleshlight type of USB/wireless add on for DoA: Code Cronus. :lol

 

[sangreal]

IPTV

But I suppose that wouldn't make much sense in Japan

 

[madara]

Keep dreaming, we'd be lucky if half of those games make it.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

These "hidden" features sound a lot like the hype/rumors that were going around when the Xbox launched and there was suppose to be a hidden game on the hard drive somewhere. Remember the quotes about how gamers would find it if they looked around hard enough? :lol

 

[ManaByte]

BSOD

You heard it here first!
:lol

That joke wasn't funny in 2001.

 

[Deleted member 284]

That joke wasn't funny in 2001.

Oh hell yes it was when it happened on stage.

 

[Silent_Echo]

It's probably something like being able to order a pizza while connected to Live, maybe using the headset as a phone. Having a dialer interface would be something very simple to do, and not something anybody else is doing.

My guess is something like that or a e-marketplace where you can order things from Microsoft partners, and completely unrelated to gaming.

 

[GaimeGuy]

It's probably something like being able to order a pizza while connected to Live, maybe using the headset as a phone. Having a dialer interface would be something very simple to do, and not something anybody else is doing.

My guess is something like that or a e-marketplace where you can order things from Microsoft partners, and completely unrelated to gaming.

/pizza