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Was Blue Dragon What X360 Needed In Japan?

Posted by Zonk on from the blue-dragon-rising dept.

simoniker writes "Have major RPG Blue Dragon and other Microsoft efforts paved the way for Japanese Xbox 360 success? 8-4 Ltd's John Ricciardi and Kotaku's Japanese correspondent Brian Ashcraft have been talking about the issue, with Ricciardi commenting on Gears Of War's recent appearance in the Japanese Top 10 game chart, with 33,000 units sold in one week: 'I mean, granted, everything is relative — so yes, in a market where the average 360 game sells around 5,000 copies, 30,000 or so may seem like a big deal, but at the end of the day, their userbase is not expanding. The week Gears came out they only sold a little over 7,000 pieces of hardware. It's not enough.'"

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  1. Re:Short answer No, long answer no with a but ... by albyrne5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Am I the only person who hates Dead Rising?

    70euros and I think I've played it 3 times.

    I want to kill zombies and see some cool physics effects.

    All I get is taking photos and talking to dopes.

    And the load times are ridiculous and too frequent and it keeps bloomin crashing!

    Grrr.

    All I play on my 360 is PES6 and MonkeyBall. I don't really like FPS games, though I did like TimeSplitters on PS2, not sure why. Where's a new Driver or GTA or a quirky adventure game? Where's Soul Calibur? Or a Prince of Persia style thingy? I dunno man, I've had it over ayear now ... and I just haven't been blown away by the games.

    Madden - repetitive. PGR - terrible handling. Dead Rising - see above. Kameo - diabolical, impossible to see what's going on. COD2 - Was good for 2 or 3 weeks I guess, gets very samey rho.

    Ah I guess I'm just in a bad mood today.

    I do love PES6 tho ... must get this router working some day, am still not on xbox live ...