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Article: XBox Japan will have online gaming in January.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- TV Meets the Web
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- September 22, 2002
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Microsoft has announced that its online gaming service for the XBox console will go live in Japan in January, following on from the US debut in mid-November.
Microsoft is hoping that the launch of the service will make the XBox the number on online games console, as well as encouraging poor sales figures.
The service will run on trial for two months to a limited audience of 5,000 players, allowing network monitoring, before ...