A recent article on the commercial failure of the Xbox in Japan, to which I contributed some comments, has been syndicated from The Christian Science Monitor to USA Today. Read it again, if you like, or “refer to my earlier post”:http://benhourigan.com/archives/2006/01/10/no-clamor-for-xbox-in-japan/ about its first appearance in the Monitor. The article also contains some comments by [...]
Today the “Christian Science Monitor”:http://www.csmonitor.com has “an article about the failure of the Xbox in Japan.”:http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0110/p04s01-woap.html There’s some comments there by me, on Japanese tastes and the centrality of the RPG genre to console success there. “Gonzalo Frasca”:http://www.ludology.org also contributed his words to the piece. Despite the Xbox’s apparent failure, Microsoft bq. “were able to [...]
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