It's already been announced for a few weeks, but it looks like Otomedius is finally getting a home release.  It's slated for Japan on the 360, 9/25/2008.

Official Site:
http://www.konami.jp/products/otome_g/index.html

Trailer:
http://www.konami.jp/products/otome_g/data/otome_g.asx

Assuming iNiS's Lips actually becomes a reality, I'd be dead set on getting a 360 by the Fall.  How is the import situation with the system?  What sort of mods, if necessary, are required to play different region-coded games?

EDIT: Is that a rearrangement of "Cherish The Blue Skies Given To Us" at the trailer's 1:15 mark?!

I'm guessing the 360's games (and LIVE service) are region-coded, so importing this for my bro's system might not be playable w/out a modded console?

Highly doubt this will be getting an American release, since tits-and-ass cartoon characters are off-limits, yet Dead or Alive Beach Vollyball's gigantic boobs are fine.

Gameplay looks sweet, no shooter fan should be passing this up...

A lot of 360 games are region free and a lot of them aren't. There are sites that test them but I can't think of one off hand. Some of the import online shops do fairly regular checks I think.

Here are some links to Xbox360 region compatibility:
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-00-3-xbox … 49-en.html
http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Region_Free_Xbox_360_Games

I get the impression that one can play more U.S. games on a Japanese Xbox360 than vice versa.

Xbox Live is segmented by region for purposes of Xbox Live downloadable content.   For example, you cannot get Japanese downloads from the U.S.

Hm, so basically, I won't know if Otomedius is compatible until it's released, eh?  Guess that'll give me the time needed to make the proper purchasing arrangements.

I'll at least give Sony credit this gen for making their games region-free.

Yes.  The game region-encoding appears to be decided on an individual basis.  It does not look like Microsoft mandates this (one of the few things they get right).

So we have to wait for importers to get their hands on the game to see how compatible it is.

Just watched the trailer.  Looks pretty cool, though I don't get why the aspect ratio keeps changing.

Is this a disc release or live arcade only? Looking good so far, although I was expecting more from the graphics (to me this looks no better than Gradius V, which looked awesome already on PS2).

"Sexy Gradius V" looks fine to me as an unofficial title.

Yeah, there's certainly some Gradius V-isms in there.  Look at the giant red eyeballs at 1:09 -- it's even accompanied by the same hit-collision sound effect.

Since Treasure made Gradius V for Konami, I would not be surprised if Konami was re-using assets.

Whoa, looks like they're going to be releasing a limited edition joystick with the game, complete with the built-in touch screen.  Seriously cool.  And seriously expensive:

http://www.arcade-renaissance.com/2008/ … stick.html

http://i27.tinypic.com/2yn3p6b.jpg