99 Nights Coming for Japan’s Xbox 360

Microsoft is finally (FINALLY) releasing the highly anticipated Xbox 360 game: Ninety Nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall Nights in Japan. Bill Gates and Co. hope that the game will encourage the Japanese to run out and buy the console, which until now has been ignored by the masses. It must be embarrassing for Microsoft to have been such a failure in TechGeekland, when they have no physical competition at the moment. I guess the mere idea of the PS3 and Revolution are competition enough.

But, now comes 99 Nights to make it all better. Right?

Well, maybe.

While Xbox 360 has the advantage of being the only next-generation game console in the market — Sony and Nintendo both plan to launch next-generation game machines this year — Microsoft had sold 112,657 units as of January 29 in Japan, according to a survey by Enterbrain, the publisher of leading Japanese game magazine Famitsu.

“Ninety-Nine Nights” is a big-scale battle game produced by Japanese game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s Q Entertainment in partnership with South Korean developer Phantagram.

Mizuguchi, one of Japan’s top game developers behind titles such as “Lumines” for Sony’s Playstation Portable, was tapped in the hopes of attracting Japanese game fans.

Microsoft said it does not yet have specific plans to launch “Ninety-Nine Nights” outside of Japan.

The game will be available on April 20th, and it’ll cost 6,800 yen, which translates to about 33£, 48€ or $59.

[via Reuters]

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