Western Xbox Titles To Flood Japan?

Posted by simoniker on Thursday June 26, 2003 @11:08PM from the overwhelm-them-with-numbers dept.

Thanks to GamePro for posting an article discussing the fact that Microsoft may try to keep the Xbox alive in Japan by flooding the market in less territory-suitable, but already in-development Western titles such as Conker, Voodoo Vince, and Counter-Strike. According to the article, a Japanese retail chain "..claims that Microsoft is planning to release overseas titles in Japan without bothering to localize them for the local market - in other words, they'll release the original English version with a Japanese manual attached." The article suggests this is a sign that Microsoft may forget about the mass-market in Japan, and will be "..dropping its large-scale strategy [until Xbox 2], and concentrating on the 400,000 or so hardcore fans it's managed to scrape together over the past 16 months."

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Strom Thurmond, dead at 100 by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-26 23:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I just heard some sad news on the radio today - U.S. senator Strom Thurmond was found dead in his Edgefield home last night. There weren't any more details yet.

I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you weren't a fan of his promoting segregation and oppressing civil rights there's no denying his contribution to the political transformation of the South and the Slashdot trolling scene. Truly an American icon.

He shall be missed :'(