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Survey Sees Tough Times for 360 in Japan
GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that a survey recently conducted by Japanese news agency C-News would tend to suggest that the Xbox 360 will encounter consumer resistance when it is launched in Japan. From the article: "The poor showing for the Revolution is perhaps understandable, given that Nintendo has released only sketchy outline details regarding the console so far - but the figure for the Xbox 360 will come as a disappointment to Microsoft, which has focused heavily on the Japanese market in recent months." GameDailyBiz has a look at the survey as well, concentrating on the PS3's popularity.
Perhaps your idealism that racism is a product of the west is a nice place to live but it seems to me quite misguided.
Since all of us have AIDS and enjoy raping japanese youths, you won't live long enough to enjoy the close company of many Japanese.
May I enquire if you have been there?
No, my argument was dead on. You however are ignorant to "innovation" outside of the realm of traditional Japanese video games. These are the things I pointed out to you.
... what an asshat. You now must revoke your geek license and go sit in the corner because everyone now sees the sheer stupidity you have created in your mind..
hehe, yeah lump in Canada, Europe, etc. to claim *AMERICA* is where innovation comes from. Christ, flawed logic spews forth from your post like a waterfall. Umm, Molyneux is not American by the way... but again, in your made up world he is.
Lumping Canada, Europe and Western Europe is pretty much a requirement in todays market. Basically there are two "types" of developers. Eastern (Korea and Japan mostly), and Western. Look at the publisher Dynamic. EA for example... EA NHL2006 and Need For Speed are made in Vancouver for EA, who are based out of California. Our how about UBISoft, based out of France but a lot of their flagship games are developed in Montreal ( Splinter Cell & Prince of Persia ). I know Molyneux is based out of the UK yet hmmm who publishes Lionheads games? Hmmmm? Oh, a North American publisher. Hell, the Tomb Raider series has been developed in 3 different countries already. So, if you used a few cells in that tiny fucking brain of yours maybe, just maybe you would realize why indeed you do have to clump Western games into one group
Btw I never once claimed America is the source of innovation fuck, Im very happily NOT an American.
Yeah, you must be right, "pet" games and "party" games that's all the Japanese have contributed
Ok, Sir Clusterfuck I call you. Give me say 5 other unique games that came out of Japan. I promise you I can find prior art in almost every case. They do a damned good job of refining existing games and some bloody good games come from Japan but so say it is driving innovation is delusional. I may have missed one or two genres, I admit that but I doubt theres much more. You feel like backing up your insults with an actual tangible argument then maybe just maybe you are onto something. Until then, Ill continue with my assumption that youre a hopeless Japanese game fanboy.
ex-fucking-actly. You hit the nail on the head.
My main point was that so many people are bashing nintendo for their "empty" box, yet what do we have for the PS3 and 360? NOTHING for the PS3 (just another empty box) and a pre-alpha dev kit that isn't even CLOSE to being a real 360? Exactly, another empty box. Pathetic!!
Nintendo's showing was no worse than Sony or MS it was just much less hype and that's it. As far as real substance goes Nintendo's showing was on par with everybody else.
How come nobody talks about how Sony's PSP E3 showing faired against the DS? Not so well.. Not so well at all. Yet not a single word about it anywhere.. WTF?
As a long time console developer for a decade plus and owner of my own console dev house I can confidently say you are sadly delusional.
The console dev world is completely focused on the PS3 right now. Nothing outside of a planet killing comet hitting the Earth is going to change that.
Sony has every console dev house on board, including us. The contracts have been signed. The deals are done. The projects are set in motion.
The fact that Microsoft is releasing another xbox in November has virtually no relevance to our console plans. At best we will at some point next year farm out a port or two of our PS3 titles to some little windows dev house to port. Although the 360 hardware is looking like it is going to be significantly weaker than the PS3 and Revo machines, so ports might not even be worth the change we would make back on funding them.
I don't know if you are just young or really are seriously delusional, but your big talk has no releation to the reality of the console market.
You don't honestly believe what you just wrote? Do you?