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Tag Archives: Microsoft
“No Clamor for Xbox in Japan”
Today the Christian Science Monitor has an article about the failure of the Xbox in Japan. There’s some comments there by me, on Japanese tastes and the centrality of the RPG genre to console success there. Gonzalo Frasca also contributed … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged 10 January, Apparent Failure, Bq, Centrality, Christian Science Monitor, Clamor, Csmonitor, Japan Today, Microsoft, Rpg Genre, Tastes, Xbox, Xbox Japan
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Xbox 360: It’s big in Japan
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 … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Big In Japan, Drawing, Faceplates, Giant, Hdtv, Launch, Microsoft, Osaka, Perfect Dark Zero, Security Guard, Sheer Size, Trailers, Ugliness, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Japan
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Microsoft copies Ubuntu logo
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 … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Beta Phase, Blog, Circles, Distro, Human Heads, Lawyers, Linux, Logo Side, Logos, Microsoft, Msn Spaces, Similarity, Tabs, Technology, Ubuntulinux
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