Titles
Eighteen launch titles were available for customers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico on November 22, 2005. The European countries had sixteen titles available for the launch date of December 2, 2005. Japanese customers, however, only had six titles to choose from by the time the Xbox 360 was released on December 10, 2005. This discrepancy is partially accounted for by the time needed to localize the games.
| Title | North America | Europe | Japan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amped 3 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Call of Duty 2 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Condemned: Criminal Origins | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Every Party | No | No | Yes |
| FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Gun | Yes | Yes | No |
| Kameo: Elements of Power | Yes | Yes | No |
| Madden NFL 06 | Yes | Yes | No |
| NBA 2K6 | Yes | No | No |
| NBA Live 06 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Need for Speed: Most Wanted | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| NHL 2K6 | Yes | No | No |
| Perfect Dark Zero | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie | Yes | Yes | No |
| Project Gotham Racing 3 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Quake 4 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Ridge Racer 6 | Yes | No | Yes |
| Tetris: The Grandmaster ACE | No | No | Yes |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Tony Hawk's American Wasteland | Yes | Yes | No |
Many of these titles were rushed during development in order to meet with the console's launch date and as a result most of them did not fully utilise the graphical power of the Xbox 360. In North America, the best-selling title was Call of Duty 2, which had an attach rate of 77%, followed by Madden NFL 06 and Need for Speed Most Wanted. The most successful first-party title was Perfect Dark Zero. In Japan, the most successful titles were Ridge Racer 6 (29,891 copies), Perfect Dark Zero (14,897 copies), and Need for Speed Most Wanted (6,842 copies).
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Famous quotes containing the word titles:
“Lear. Dost thou call me fool, boy?
Fool. All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)
“We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy, or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)