Blue Dragon Pushing 360 Bundles in Japan 34
1up is reporting that Blue Dragon 360 bundle pre-orders are selling fast in Japan. Maybe, finally, Microsoft has a product that will get the Japanese market on its side. From the article: "According to one retailer, Microsoft is planning to produce 100,000 of the Blue Dragon hardware bundles, and 10% of these will be the limited set with all the cool Blue Dragon merchandise we mentioned. With all the Toriyama fans in Japan, it might not be surprising to hear that these 10,000 limited sets are being snapped up pretty quickly, but hey, we're talking about the Xbox 360 in Japan -- the machine has been struggling to sell more than a thousand units each week recently. At the end of the first day of pre-orders, most retailers are now sold out of the limited set."
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Different strokes (Score:1)
It's always interesting to see how different the gaming habits are in different countries/cultures.
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MS Vs Sony? (Score:1)
I can't wait to see the actual sales numbers sometime next year for the next gen systems, things should be rather interesting then. (My vote is already cast on Wii, and will probably stay that way, however I still am interested)
Re:Nintendo MS Vs Sony. (Score:4, Insightful)
Looks like deep pockets counts for something (Score:5, Insightful)
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Always?! So like 10 years is always. Oh wait, Nintendo's only been third since the Xbox, which debuted in late 2001. And it wasn't third the whole time either. You have a very strange idea of what "always" means.
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Oh wait, you weren't talking about all the "I 'hate Microsoft' but I LOVE THE XBOX360" posts were you?
X-Box 360 is teh suck! (Score:3, Interesting)
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So you're saying Microsoft is covering the elusive male homosexual demographic which its opensource competition failed to claim?
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Expect 360 sales to take off... (Score:4, Interesting)
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take a game like Katamari Demacy for example. It was released in japan first and did pretty well there, well enough for namco to warrent translating it and releasing it in the US (which they had no plans to originally).
their selection of games vary's greatly from what we get in the US, so it's kind of hard to find that quirky great small name title there since there's
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I was completely anti-PS3 until I saw their offering at the Tokyo Game Show this year. They really have their act together, and while it might not seem so in America or Slashdot (same thing for me, as I get all my news here), the reality is that Sony is probably going to dominate this round as well, with Nintendo getting a hefty 2nd place.
I know personal anecdotes are horrible for
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Slashdot is the absolute worst place to get your console news. Zonk simply doesn't accept any news which is negative about the Wii / Xbox or positive about the PS3.
Go to somewhere like Kotaku.com where you get unbiased (and unvarnished) news for all consoles. Every console and game gets their fair share of the kicks and praise as they deserve, based on the news, not the puerile whims of a fanboy with a grudge.
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a 60 gig PS3 will be $600.
Of course you have to care about these features and even if you do care about high def you're picking a side in blueray/HD-dvd format war.
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Huh? (Score:1)
Platinum Dragon (Score:1)
Defining Success Downward (Score:1)
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Not strugling, but failin (Score:2)