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kn on 10 June 2008

I stumbled upon these links... interesting.  Sorry if posted before...  The titles are a little misleading in the links.

http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/09/29/japanese-kids-prefer-the-nes-to-the-psp/

Interesting tidbits: 

34% own 5 or more consoles.
Twice as many play the original NES over the Xbox.
Character nurturing games are the top interest.

And other similar bit of research on the same site:

 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/06/03/playstation-3-played-less-than-nintendo-64/

Interesting Tidbit:

RPGs are at the top of the food chain illustrating all the angst over SO4, lol
 

 

 



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starcraft on 10 June 2008

Wow.
Xbox and PS3 really are dead in Japan.



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kn on 10 June 2008

It seems everything but catz-n-dogz on handhelds is dead in Japan.



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MANUELF on 10 June 2008

Interesting, the DS still be the king.



Pristine20 on 11 June 2008
kn said:
It seems everything but catz-n-dogz on handhelds is dead in Japan.

 LOL. Its hard to believe that people play games like that



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Godot on 11 June 2008

Well, looking at that, it doesn't make any sense not to release a RPG on DS.



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Sqrl on 11 June 2008

Some things I found interesting:

What kinds of video games machines do you often play on? (Sample size=764, console and portable gamers, multiple answer)

Nintendo DS 82.2%
Nintendo Gameboy Advance 39.8%
Sony PlayStation 1, 2 or 3 37.4%
Nintendo Wii 35.3%
Nintendo Gamecube 31.4%
Nintendo Gameboy, Gameboy Micro 19.8%
Nintendo 64 15.2%
Nintendo Super Famicon (SNES) 15.1%
Nintendo Famicon (NES) 11.9%
Sony PlayStation Portable 10.5%
Microsoft Xbox 5.8%
Sega Saturn 5.1%
Sega Dreamcast 4.8%
Other 16.4%

What games machines are currently in use at home, excluding computers, mobile phones games? (Sample size=14,373, multiple answer)

Nintendo DS 43.9%
PlayStation 2 39.6%
Wii 19.8%
PlayStation Portable 12.4%
Gameboy 12.3%
PlayStation 11.1%
Famicon, Super Famicon 9.5%
Nintendo GameCube 6.7%
Nintendo 64 6.3%
PlayStation 3 5.0%
Sega Saturn 2.6%
DreamCast 2.1%
XBox 360 1.3%
XBox 0.7%
Other 2.3%
Don’t currently use one 6.1%
Don’t have any 22.2%
No answer 1.4%

 Interesting results.



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starcraft on 11 June 2008
halil23 said:
starcraft said:
Wow.
Xbox and Xbox360 really are dead in Japan.

Fixed!


By Xbox I meant the Xbox brand.  If you think the PS3 is doing well in Japan your kidding yourselves. 

Given that though, its incredible the Xbox 360 is getting such a superior JRPG line-up compared to the PS3.



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starcraft on 11 June 2008

double post.



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starcraft on 11 June 2008
halil23 said:
 

"360 superior JRPG line-up" LMAO! now that what I call kidding yourself.

On topic : We know you're widely regard as a guy love spinning words and hoping people believe you're crap!

If you look carefully the survey shows consoles dating back to the NES days, obviously you have to be more specific when naming consoles, so what I did was fix your "MSMS" (or Played_Out awesome quote ASS MS : Anti-Sony Selective Memory Syndrome) post, and name "logical" 2 worst consoles.

And yes PS3 is doing well, just not Wii great.

You don't think the 360's library and line-up of JRPG's is superior to the PS3's?

 



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