04-10-2005, 03:59 PM
<strong>Phantasy Star Online 360? No...</strong> <img src="/images/Xbox.jpg" alt="Xbox" width="8" height="8">
<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - October 4 2005 - 10:59 AM ]</font>
<P align=center><IMG style="WIDTH: 500px; HEIGHT: 300px" alt=Xbox360 hspace=0 src="http://www.ragol.co.uk/uploads/xbox360_banner.png" align=baseline border=1></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Robbie Bach - Chief Xbox Officer for Microsoft - was recently interviewed by Japanese Gaming Goodness Famitsu about the Xbox360's Xbox Live expectations. On the subject of any new MMORPG's, Bach stated that after <EM>Final Fantasy XI</EM>, which will soon undergo a huge BETA test which it's believed (But not confirmed) that anyone with an Xbox360 & HDD can BETA test, there would be no new Xbox360 MMORPG's in the launch window until at least 2 or 3 years into the systems life due to "the logistics of setting up a new service". Whether or not this means that no-one will be seeing any <EM>Phantasy Star</EM> title on the Xbox360 for a couple of years at least or not depends on your definition of an MMORPG and whether or not you'd class <EM>Phantasy Star</EM> into that category of games. Then again, this statement makes us believe that Microsoft are controlling everything to do with Xbox360 Live Online play, where as we all know SEGA for making their own servers for people to play on. So who knows if this is relevant or not, but i think that he at least knows that there isn't a <EM>Phantasy Star</EM> game in development for the Xbox360 at the moment, otherwise it would have surely been stated here...</FONT></P>
<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - October 4 2005 - 10:59 AM ]</font>
<P align=center><IMG style="WIDTH: 500px; HEIGHT: 300px" alt=Xbox360 hspace=0 src="http://www.ragol.co.uk/uploads/xbox360_banner.png" align=baseline border=1></P><P align=left><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Robbie Bach - Chief Xbox Officer for Microsoft - was recently interviewed by Japanese Gaming Goodness Famitsu about the Xbox360's Xbox Live expectations. On the subject of any new MMORPG's, Bach stated that after <EM>Final Fantasy XI</EM>, which will soon undergo a huge BETA test which it's believed (But not confirmed) that anyone with an Xbox360 & HDD can BETA test, there would be no new Xbox360 MMORPG's in the launch window until at least 2 or 3 years into the systems life due to "the logistics of setting up a new service". Whether or not this means that no-one will be seeing any <EM>Phantasy Star</EM> title on the Xbox360 for a couple of years at least or not depends on your definition of an MMORPG and whether or not you'd class <EM>Phantasy Star</EM> into that category of games. Then again, this statement makes us believe that Microsoft are controlling everything to do with Xbox360 Live Online play, where as we all know SEGA for making their own servers for people to play on. So who knows if this is relevant or not, but i think that he at least knows that there isn't a <EM>Phantasy Star</EM> game in development for the Xbox360 at the moment, otherwise it would have surely been stated here...</FONT></P>