Microsoft Planning Avatar Store for Next Spring

Robin Burrowes, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) product manager for Xbox LIVE, told VideoGamer.com at a recent hands-on preview event for the New Xbox Experience that the company plans to launch a dedicated store for the upcoming Xbox 360 Avatars.

With the release of The New Xbox Experience, the Xbox 360 will get their own Miis in the form of Avatars, customizable graphical representations of Xbox Live users tied to Xbox 360 profiles. At launch, there will be a bunch of accessories for these Avatars available free of charge, but in 2009 Microsoft plans to create a store where Xbox Live users will be able to buy new accesories

Burrowes said: "The plan of record will be to launch a more extensive Avatar Store from spring time onwards next year, and that store in theory would have branded content in there, game publisher IP stuff in there as well."


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