Well, this is really a shame.

In an issue of Famitsu's XBox Magazine, they interviewed Masaki Sakari of 5pb, the company responsible for porting two immensely popular top-down shoot-em-ups: DoDonPachi Daioujou Black Label X and Ketsui X (More info) to the XBox 360. The catch? These two games are being ported to the 360 as a retail product.

As to why a retail product instead of XBLA? Sakari had this to say:

quote Masaki Sakari, 5pb

"Our initial plan was to port lots of good arcade tit...

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