Reports from Japan say Microsoft"s next-generation home console provides the tech for the House of the Dead 4 machine.
Recently, Sega staged a beta test in Tokyo for House of the Dead 4, the forthcoming light-gun shooter that uses the company"s new "Lindbergh" arcade board. At the time, rumors began to circulate that the new board--which displays games in a 16:9 widescreen format--was based on the Xbox 360.
Today, new information emerged from arcade distributors in Japan that the Lindbergh does indeed use the 360"s architecture. If true, it will mark the second time that a Microsoft home console has provided the basis for a Sega arcade machine. Sega"s previous Chihiro board was based on the current-generation Xbox.