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Final Xbox 360 Launch Lineup

Peter Moore: 200 Xbox 360 Games Are Being Developed

Microsoft's eight of the about 20 games to be launched for Xbox 360 are ready and the rest are in "final stages of certification".

At today's X05 event in Amsterdam, Microsoft is expected to announce the Xbox 360 launch line-up for North America or Europe… or even both.

Peter Moore, Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Xbox Marketing and Publishing said there are 200 Xbox 360 games being developed.

Robbie Bach, Chief Officer said the console will have the "best games and launch lineup" of any console, but it refused to name more games to be released with the console on November 22 in the US.

Microsoft even created some confusion when a press release they issued, saying "Xbox 360 Launch line-up" only listed three games developed by Microsoft ("Project Gotham Racing 3", "Perfect Dark Zero", and "Kameo"; more details here).

They made a separate category for games announced or to be shown at X05, such as "Gears of War", "FIFA 06", "Full Auto", "Saint's Row", "Condemned", "Too Human", "Mass Effect" and Crackdown. You can read more here.

The release had a third category, franchise titles that will debut on Microsoft's upcoming console, which included "Superman Returns: The Videogame", "Call of Duty 2", "Castle Wolfenstein", "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion", "MotoGP 2006", "Splinter Cell 4" and the game that's been making a big fuss recently, "Quake 4".