Sentence examples for launch title for from inspiring English sources

After their briefing time at E3 2010, Nintendo announced a sequel titled Pilotwings Resort for the Nintendo 3DS, which was released as a launch title for the handheld console.

Wipeout, a hover ship racer launch title for Sony's PlayStation in the West, marked the passing of video gaming's perception from childish diversion to the cultural zeitgeist.

Called LostWinds – and inspired by the ferocious blasts of air which were battering the Frontier offices at the time – it became a highly successful launch title for WiiWare and set a quality standard for others to follow.

Moreover, it's perplexing that Super Mario 3D Land wasn't a launch title for its platform, because not only is it a great game, it makes the console's 3D visuals integral to the gameplay.

Like McBride's A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, Oona Frawley's impressively cosmopolitan debut Flight languished for nearly a decade without a publisher, before it became the launch title for Tramp Press last year.

But I'm here to experience the process of making a video game called Ryse: Son of Rome, an epic tale charting the Roman conquest of Britain, which will be a launch title for the Xbox One.

There's everything from the likes of Octodad: Dadliest Catch (you play an octopus-father trying to pass muster as a human in front of a suspicious family) to Resogun (a side-scrolling bullet hell style shooter that's been the standout launch title for the console) and TowerFall Ascension (below), an 8-bit take on Super Smash Bros with medieval and magical stylings.

The extra months will give it time to ramp up manufacturing, and will give software developers longer to finish their launch titles for the PS3, thus ensuring a reasonable selection of games by November.

Game developer Mike Bithell, whose Volume: Coda will be one of the launch titles for the Playstation VR, agrees with the concern, but thinks that the wow factor will be enough to overcome that initial hurdle.

"If you look at the transition between PlayStation 2 and PS3 and the launch titles on the latter machine, then look at the launch titles for PS4, I think you'll see a much more impressive leap in quality," he says.

Beverly Cleary's Fifteen, published in the US in 1956 and in the UK in 1962 is often cited as the first book for teenagers because it was one of the launch titles for the Peacock series that Penguin launched for this new market of readers.