Ben Hourigan » Rpg Genre http://benhourigan.com Writer and editor. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:08:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 “No Clamor for Xbox in Japan” http://benhourigan.com/archives/2006/01/10/no-clamor-for-xbox-in-japan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-clamor-for-xbox-in-japan http://benhourigan.com/archives/2006/01/10/no-clamor-for-xbox-in-japan/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:27:05 +0000 Benjamin Hourigan http://benhourigan.com/archives/2006/01/10/no-clamor-for-xbox-in-japan/ Continue reading →]]> 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 his words to the piece. Despite the Xbox’s apparent failure, Microsoft

“were able to jump into a very closed market and become a major player,” says Mr. Frasca. “Sure, they burned a ton of cash doing it but, still, it is a major achievement.”

Read more here:

Matthew Rusling, “No Clamor for Xbox in Japan,” Christian Science Monitor (10 January 2006).

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