Xbox Release Chart -- As of July 25, 2005

I just created this chart and thought it was rather interesting. (Click to get the full-size chart in a separate window.) It shows the North American Xbox titles that have been released each year, grouped by month.

There are a couple of historical values that may be bogus, such as the four titles shown to be released before the Xbox came out, but the rest of the data appears to be reliable. Historical data starting around June 2004 is accurate to the day.

Note that there is some projected release data for the remainder of this year and on into 2006. In practice, about 3% of those titles never get released, and another 15-20% get pushed further out - usually by a margin of 1-6 months. (At this time last year, there were 48 titles slated for release in November 2004. As you can see on the chart, only 35 actually made the November time frame. Most of the delayed titles slipped into 2005.)

The projected dates were gathered from Gamestop.com and EBGames.com. Where the two websites disagree, I've used the Gamestop.com date, since I have found it to be the more reliable projection.

As of today, there have been 633 Xbox titles released in North America. (Excluding Platinum Hits reissues, but including the Halo 2 Map Pack.)