Rockstar's Table Tennis Official Info >

	2006/03/06 10:29:48: Posted by DM
	Rockstar, as you know, announced a new Table Tennis game last Friday. The game will be for the XBox360 and is a pretty big change from their usual sex and violence. Then again, Rockstar will have to adapt or die, they cannot be known anymore only as the epitome of violence and sex in games. Click read more for the full press info. New York, NY - March 6, 2006 - Rockstar Games, the world-renowned publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), is pleased to announce Table Tennis for Xbox 360TM video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Developed by Rockstar San Diego, the creative house behind the highly successful Midnight Club racing series, Table Tennis is expected to ship to North American retailers on May 22nd, 2006 for a MSRP of $39.99 and will hit European retail shelves on May 26th, 2006 for a price of €39.99 and £29.99 in the UK. "Our goal was to create a game that is perfectly addictive in its focused simplicity, a game that showcases the true possibilities of a next gen experience, not just in looks but in feel and pace," stated Sam Houser, Founder and Executive Producer of Rockstar Games. "We wanted to use the power of the new hardware and the resolution of new televisions to give the game an immediacy, an intensity and a sense of physicality and reality, resulting in a purer, more visceral experience that simply was not possible previously." Houser continued, "It is a distillation of game design philosophy, focusing on removing the traditional areas of compromise inherent in managing size and scope and concentrating the hardware's entire power on one activity, with the aim of doing that better than it's ever been done before." About Take-Two Interactive Software Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is an integrated global developer, marketer, distributor and publisher of interactive entertainment software games and accessories for the PC, PlayStation® game console, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, PSPTM (PlayStation®Portable) system, Xbox® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Xbox 360TM video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCubeTM, Nintendo DSTM and Game Boy® Advance. The Company publishes and develops products through its wholly owned labels Rockstar Games, 2K Games, 2K Sports and Global Star Software; and distributes products in North America through its Jack of All Games subsidiary. Take-Two also manufactures and markets video game accessories in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific region through its Joytech subsidiary. The Company maintains sales and marketing offices in Cincinnati, New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Vienna, Milan, Sydney, Breda (Netherlands) and Auckland. Take-Two's common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit our website at www.take2games.com.
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£29.99 in the UK?!!

No harm but £30.00 for next-gen Pong?

I still feel that this is an insult. I can hear it now, PS3 hosts GTA while 360 is only capable of Pong. Someone should tell Rockstar to take their game and shove it.

I'm a multiformat gamer and so am only interested in the games regardless of format but even I can see that this is a veiled insult.

I agree GeoWolf... This is surely a game for the XBL Arcade not a full £40.00. This game is going straight in the bargin bin...

Well at least they aren't trying to charge you full price. Outlaw Volleyball anyone? Dead or Alive Volleyball? Those were simple "pong" games. Granted Outlaw had a little more depth, but still they charged full price if I remember right.

They are giving you a nextgen game for 30. Not bad if you ask me. Whether the game is simple or not, doesn't mean it isn't fun.

The chinese/japanese market will EAT this game up especially if it properly depicts the fast paced game that is table tennis.

In addition to that its not really an insult they are just keeping themselves busy with something they like while at the same time preparing the next GTA. Which incase nobody knows yet will release on BOTH the 360 and the PS3 simultaneously in 2007.

I was looking forward to GTA but this game could be more fun than it sounds.