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 [...]
Microsoft are busy gearing up for this month’s launch of the Xbox 360 in Japan, hoping to succeed with it where Xbox failed. Since the original Xbox’s sheer size and ugliness undoubtedly contributed to its unpopularity in Japan, putting a giant Xbox 360 on display at the Umeda Hankyu station in Osaka this week may [...]
The MSN Spaces service recently passed out of its beta phase. On visiting the service’s home page, regular readers of OSNews will likely recognise a shocking degree of similarity between the Spaces logo and that of distro-of-the-moment Ubuntu Linux. The similarity is obvious when switching between the Spaces and Ubuntu pages in separate browser tabs. [...]
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