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18 Dec

Blue Dragon Sells Consoles in Japan

Posted in Japan on 18.12.06

Blue Dragon may be the Xbox's best hope in Japan: it's a Japanese-developed RPG with art from Akira Toriyama (of dragon ball, Dragon Quest, and Chrono Trigger fame), music from Final Fantasy c…

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19 Jul

How to get an English language Chromehounds Demo from Japanese Marketplace

Posted in Japan on 19.07.06

Not that it's really a great game or anything, but there is an English language Chromehounds demo available on the Japanese Xbox Live Marketplace.

Here's how you can go about playing it:

1- …

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17 Jul

Japanese Boy Bands + 360

Posted in Japan on 17.07.06

Just when the 360 took it's first major stride in Japan….

MS Japan goes and pulls something like this:

That's a real 360 ad from Japan.

Did anybody else think it's weird that the al…

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12 Jul

Whoa, a 360 Game Made Famitu’s Most Wanted?

Posted in Japan on 12.07.06

This is absolutely unprecedented!

Famitsu, which is THE Japanese Gaming mag, has listed an Xbox 360 game on it's most wanted upcoming games list.

Coming in at the 8th position, Blue dragon has e…

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09 Apr

MS to Triple 360 Support in Japan

Posted in Japan on 09.04.06

An article over at Xbox Circle is saying that Microsoft will not only be trying twice as hard to sell 360's in Japan…they're gonna go one better than that. Microsoft is going to triple their…

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07 Apr

BusinessWeek on 360′s Japanese Sales

Posted in Japan on 07.04.06

First off – I have no idea who these people are in that picture, but look how happy they are?? You think they had to wait in line for that 360? I doubt it.

Everybody knows that the 360 is strugggggli…

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03 Apr

Japanes Sales Charts: 3/20-3/26

Posted in Japan on 03.04.06

If you need proof of the Xbox 360's struggles in Japan, just take a look at the most recent sales numbers. The DS Lite is just selling an absurd amount of consoles – it's really out of this w…

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03 Apr

Microsoft Will Relaunch 360 in Japan

Posted in Japan on 03.04.06

Microsoft's launch of the Xbox 360 in japan went far worse than Gates and Co. would have liked, in fact – saying it went 'bad' would probably be an overstatement. Within days of launch, th…

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