Imports section coming to XBLA? Fatal Fury Special to be Asian market only?

In an "meeting" with Gamasutra last week, Greg Canessa brought new light on Microsoft's ideas around Asian specific XBLA content and how (short of creating a Japanese account) those of us in the west can play them. It seems that MS is batting around the idea of having an import section on the market place that would allow for developers who might not have the funds to do a full localization the opportunity to tap into the far larger Western market as they will be available in the west in their original language.

Another tidbit that came out was the it seems that Fatal Fury Special will be only available in the east. If this is the case I'm certainly not going to be the only one who hopes that MS adds the new section to the Marketplace.

You can check out the whole article here.

[UPDATED] To clarify that the import section will probably not have games in english.

Comments

Japanese account: FTW!
I love my Japanese account.
I love mine too, but it took
I love mine too, but it took me quite some time to figure out how to pull out my sword in Tenchu
Ok Iive, How do you dray
Ok I give; How do you draw when not engaged in combat? - I can pull it out when someone sees me or draw it when I sneek up on someone... Can you just draw it out when ever? if so... how!?!?
"imports" means to me though
"imports" means to me though that they won't change the games, so still in japanese... really wouldn't change that. the thing i'm excited about is that the achievements will be on my normal account
Sorry bout that, I thought I
Sorry bout that, I thought I was clear about that, I've updated it to make sure.
re: Drawing your weapon
To draw your weapon, hold down the left trigger and hit "x". I'm pretty sure that's it, but I'm not in front of my 360 right now so I could be wrong.
actually i was just
actually i was just referencing the fact that if they had the demo in the imports section we still wouldn't know what buttons to press
100% brilliant idea by
100% brilliant idea by Microsoft. No reason not to have an imports section. We get a higher selection, developers get a much wider audience.
I have imported many many
I have imported many many games (Cyberbots FTW) and buttons are not a problem.
games games games

I'm liking his last statements. Where he goes on to say 50 games by end of year and that 80 games are in dev by indie companies. The import section would be the best thing since xbla. Now only if they would put all games in this area with all the languages they are in. That would be even cooler.

Start playing Smash TV in Japanese or German or what ever they have localization it to, for all games.


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