Microsoft drops online game for Japan
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
Microsoft, whose Xbox game console is outsold by almost a 5-1 ratio by Sony's PlayStation 2, stopped development of its first so-called massive online game for Japan because of a lack of progress, the company said.
The company had spent almost three years developing "True Fantasy Live Online," a role-playing game that was to debut at the end of the year, Asako Miyata, a spokeswoman for Microsoft based in Tokyo, said in a statement yesterday. Massive online games can accommodate thousands of players at one time.