| ultima said: ^LOL @ Japan is a small market. DS consistently sells >50000 units there every week. But yeah, Japan no likee foreign products. |
how many Starbucks did I see in Japan again? How many people had iPods?
Products like the original Xbox that really scream America F*** Yeah (let's be honest here) with a game lineup that does the same really rubbed them the wrong way. It was too difficult re-change their views. For quite a while in Japan - a few months Nintendo is in and a few months PlayStation is in. It will probably continue that cycle for a while. Right now, both are having adequate representation.
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY." --Hermann Goering, leading Nazi party member, at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Conservatives: Pushing for a small enough government to be a guest in your living room, or even better - your uterus.
