Xbox watchers in the west are reporting that special Japan-only bundle packs of Xbox 360 consoles and copies of much-anticipated RPG Blue Dragon have sold out on pre-order in a matter of minutes - way ahead of the package's official release date of December 7. According to Magic Box, Hirokazu Hamamura, president of influential videogame magazine, Weekly Famitsu, predicts that Japanese sales of Microsoft's previously ignored machine will reach 250,000 units by the end of 2006, with a huge leap in interest encouraged by the epic role-playing title. Well, it's a start.
Blue Dragon, of course, has serious credentials. Developer Mistwalker was founded by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the original developer of Final Fantasy. The game also features music by Final Fantasy composer, Nobuo Uematsu.
They're calling it Japan's Halo.
