Decided to post this here to see if anyone knew more about this console. (It's in my collection thread also.) From what I think I know this is the version of the Kasumi-Chan Blue Xbox console that was never released. The actual version says "Dead or Alive Ultimate." I believe this was the version of the console that Microsoft made BEFORE Tecmo changed the name of the game from "Dead or Alive Online" to "Dead or Alive Ultimate" (you can't buy Dead or Alive Online for the Xbox) and pushed the release date back from 25 March 2004 to 3 November 2004. So this is probably the version of the console that was supposed to be released on 25 March 2004. The number of these consoles was supposed to be limited to 5,000 for the 25 March 2004 and (I think) 6,000 when the release date was pushed back to 3 November 2004. I bought this console from someone who bought it from an ex-Microsoft employee that received it has a gift from the company. Before I bought this, I had only seen stock images of the console and a few non-stock but they are all the same and probably from Microsoft. The console has no Japanese on it like the actual Kasumi-Chan edition and the MFG date is almost an exact year before the release date of Dead or Alive Ultimate of 3 November 2004. So my question is, if 5,000 of these were originally made for the original release date BEFORE Tecmo changed the name, how many were scrapped or reused for the new name of the game? If anyone knows anything more about the console or the game itself, or has one of these consoles or the game itself say so. :smile-new:
I believe there was possibly just the cases scrapped, Dead or Alive Online is a Windows game, very odd. I wouldn't know any background of it, but you surely own a rare gem!
The game for Windows didn't even get fully released either. Here are two advertisements for the game that I found. One before the name change and one after. Xbox Demo Disc #23 also have a preview video of the game as "Dead or Alive Online." I guess there really isn't much to know about it "number that exist" wise. The employee who owned mine said he thought it was supposed to have been released but never was but not much more than that because it was so long ago.
Well that's all I know about Dead or Alive Online, I'm a big fan of Dead or Alive own all of them so far other than Paradise. Number wise could be anything and I think it would of been a Japan exclusive anyhow... usually limited editions go for around the 1000-5000 mark I think.
I believe it was planned to be a Japanese exclusive but this doesn't have a lick of Japanese writing anywhere on it. It just has the typical US stickers on the bottom. I think the console is just going to be one of those mystery consoles that no one knows very much about.
Yeah, I believe it's rare because I have never seen one before other than the one I have but, I don't think the number of them will ever be known. Even if I am wrong I still like the color! :smile-new: I had that feeling the other day. I don't think I am going to look at original Xbox consoles that have already been sold anymore. :sorrow:
For some reason seeing this console makes me think of the rare air brushed xbox limited to 20 given away in a contest.
I saw one of those for sale a long time ago in Germany (where most of the airbrush consoles come from) but the seller didn't want to ship worldwide. It sold for [SIZE=-1]EUR[/SIZE] 20,50. :mad-new: Also, I found some more (well kind of) information about my console. "The Strong" museum has one of these consoles in their massive collection. You can see it here. Click.
+1 - happens a lot on eBay with sellers based in the US I've found, haven't seen it as much on the Euro eBay sites... but to be honest I haven't used them as much as eBay.com (and most of the gear I've grabbed from eBay UK have been happy to post to Aus).
Love that game. Think I've unlocked most of the stuff now. Didn't get on with the DOA1 they bundled with it though :/
I do know the working title was Online (given that you could play DOA online, I guess), and I remember reading a blurb that this was a Japan only release that came with, among other things, a life size Kasumi pillow. http://www.gamespot.com/news/toned-down-doa-ultimate-xbox-bundle-hitting-japan-6104105 Though, why a version would make it over to the States, with the working title no less, is interesting.
Well, the Microsoft employee that owned it was responsible for a particular part of the international Xbox operations during the time so it makes more sense when knowing that.
The console was for sale at a known japanese online dealer for rare import stuff (don't remember the name, but they mostly dealt in rare consoles, also had a S.T.A.R.S + Veronica Dreamcast bundle of both consoles with all accessories unopened for quite some time, as well as a D2 limited huge cardboard box with the game and other stuff inside, signed by the devs. It seems the console originally came with a Kasumi hug pillow cover
I'm not sure if most of you are being confused with the final version coming with the pillow or what. Basically what MoonTar has is a pre-release title case. It probably didn't come with anything other than the system...
It came with hookups and a Japanese controller (black) but nothing else special. The first system was going to come with a pillow of Kasumi in a bikini because it was March but when the release date was pushed back to November the designers didn't think it would make sense for Kasumi to be wearing a bikini in the winter so they put her in her fighting clothes (or as the story goes that is why). So if someone has a Kasumi pillow with her in her bikini then that is probably quite rare also.
