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Xbox 360 outsells Sony PS3 in Japan
The video game console sales numbers for Japan in September are in. The underdog Xbox 360 actually beat the Sony PS3 in its home country.
This is the first time Microsoft beat Sony in Japan. According to numbers of Enterbrain Microsoft sold 53,547 Xbox 360 consoles and Sony sold only 33,071 PS3 consoles in the September time frame.
Nintendo is still on easy street having sold 109,548 Wii consoles last month in Japan.
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Posted on Fri, 3 Oct 2008 07:19:49 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Nintendo launching new DS in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd said on Thursday it
would launch its new DS handheld game console on November 1 in Japan for 18,900
yen ($179).
The new DS model will have camera and audio functions, the company said.
It will be slimmer and have a bigger display than the current model, Nintendo
said.
Nintendo sells the current DS model for 16,800 yen.
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Posted on Thu, 2 Oct 2008 04:42:42 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Zihotch Retro Phone Watch is craziest Japanese Watch ever
Our Wristwatch news site Wrist Dreams reports about a crazy watch from Japan. The Zihotch Retro Phone Watch features a working retro phone dial as the face. You have to actually dial a number to get the time told via the speaker integrated in the watch.
There is no time display to be found on this watch. When you dial 117 the watch answers in Japanese and tells the current time.
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Posted on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:30:55 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Sony PSP PSP-3000 launches in Japan next Month
Sony already announced the new PSP-3000 for Europe and the United States in August at the Leipzig Games Convention. Today Sony announced the PSP-3000 launch details for Japan.
In Japan Sony will offer the PSP-3000 in piano black, pearl white and mystic silver for 19,800 yen (~$183) starting October 16th. SCEJ will also release PSP Value Pack for the Japanese market at a RRP of 24,800 yen (including tax), comprising a new PSP system (Piano Black, Pearl White or Mystic Silver), a 4GB Memory Stick PRO Duo (Mark2), an original PSP pouch, a hand strap and a cloth to meet users’ various purposes in using the PSP systems such as playing games, watching movies, listening to music and downloading content through the network.
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Posted on Tue, 2 Sep 2008 02:29:48 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Sony to launch new PSP on Oct 16th in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp's game unit said on Tuesday it would launch
the latest model of its PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld machine on October
16 in Japan to better compete with Nintendo Co Ltd's market-leading DS.
The new PSP will sell for 19,800 yen ($182), the same price as the current PSP
model, which compares with 16,800 yen for the DS.
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Posted on Tue, 2 Sep 2008 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Microsoft to slash Xbox 360 price in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will slash the price of its Xbox 360 game
console in Japan by about 30 percent, below Nintendo Co's Wii and Sony Corp's
PlayStation 3 in a bid to boost market share, the Nikkei business daily said on
Monday.
Microsoft has been struggling to stir up demand for its Xbox 360 in Japan.
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Posted on Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:58:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Sony PSP becomes a Fonero in Japan
Sony partners with the Japanese subsidiary of Fon. Fon is the largest WiFi community in the world. It's members (Foneros) share some of there home Internet connection and get free access to the Community’s FON Spots worldwide.
In Japan PSP owners can now easily join Fon starting today. Fon has about 44,000 Wi-fi spots in downtown Tokyo alone.
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Posted on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:27:20 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Xbox 360 beats PS3 in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 beat Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 in
Japan weekly sales for the first time two weeks ago, riding robust demand for a
recent Xbox 360 title produced by Namco Bandai Holdings , a magazine publisher
said.
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Posted on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Xbox 360 beats PS3 in Japan because of Tales of Vesperia
Xbox 360 sales have been rather low since the launch in Japan. In the week ending August 10th Microsoft sold a surprising 24,962 units and outsold the Sony PS3 (9,673) by far.
The reason seems to be the release of Bandai’s Tales of Vesperia that sold over 100,000 copies in the first week according to Media Create.
Like in the United States the Wii is still on top of the Xbox 360 and PS3, but both handheld gaming systems sold more than the Wii in that week.
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Posted on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:42:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Softbank dramatically cuts monthly Fees for iPhone 3G in Japan
Softbank reduces the monthly fees for the iPhone 3G in Japan. Softbank says that they want to reach a broader customer base with the new much lower rates.
The new monthly fee is 2,990 yen (~$27). It was 7,280 yen (~$67) before, which means Softbank cut the price by over 50%. The price-cut stems mostly from a reduced price of the data flat rate.
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Posted on Tue, 5 Aug 2008 03:43:21 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Space Invaders Worldwar Pits USA Against Japan
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Space Invaders an online battle between the US and Japan is brewing in a new game called Space Invaders Worldwar. The game is very different from what you may have played on your Atari back in the day.
Rather than a triangle, you move left and right across the bottom of the screen, the new online version of the game has invaders flying at you from different locations around the screen. You use the mouse to place a crosshair on the invaders and blow them up. The goal is to reach a specific amount of kills in 30 seconds to progress. Read more
Posted on Fri, 1 Aug 2008 08:44:33 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Sony PSP outsells Nintendo DS in Japan
According to the sales analysis of Enterbrain the Sony PSP outsold the Nintendo DS last month.
Sony sold 256,765 PSP consoles and Nintendo sold 217,639 units.
This is not the first time the PSP has outsold the Nintendo DS. Sony said in July that they already sold 10 million PSP consoles in Japan alone.
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Posted on Fri, 1 Aug 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Nintendo Wii outsells PS3 3-to-1 in Japan in July
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii video game console outsold Sony Corp's
PlayStation 3 by more than 3-to-1 in Japan in July, a game magazine publisher
said.
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Posted on Fri, 1 Aug 2008 02:55:29 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Nintendo sues 5 Japan Firms over Game Equipment
Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd said on Tuesday it had filed a lawsuit against five
Japanese firms for importing and selling equipment that enables illegal game
programs to be played on Nintendo's popular DS portable video game player.
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Posted on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:36:25 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Japan Firms to work out next-gen car Battery Norms
TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp , Nissan Motor Co , Matsushita Electric
Industrial Co and other Japanese companies will work together to set up common
standards for lithium-ion batteries being developed to power next-generation
cars, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday.
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Posted on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:32:43 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Sony sold 10 million Sony PSP Consoles in Japan
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that the cumulative sell-in units of PSP handheld entertainment system (PSP-1000 and 2000 series) reached a total of 10 million units in Japan as of July 15, 2008.
The Sony PSP was launched in Japan on December 12th 2004 in Japan. The slim and light PSP (PSP-2000) made its debut on September 20th 2007 and in the first half of 2008(according to Enterbrain), it has become the best selling system in the game console market in Japan.
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Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:25:46 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Sony Playstation Home Site available in Japan
The last thing we reported about the Sony Playstation Home 3D world was that the open beta for Playstation Home is to start this fall.
I just stumbled over a website Sony has setup for Playstation Home in Japan. I am not sure how long the site has been online, but it has lots of screenshots and explains on a high level Playstation Home and its main components.
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Posted on Mon, 7 Jul 2008 04:43:28 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
PSP hotter than Wii in Japan
According to the latest sales numbers of video game consoles in Japan the Sony PSP outsells the Nintendo Wii. Of course it is not a fair comparison as the PSP is a portable console and the Wii is a home console, but the Wii outsells the PSP in the U.S. by a huge margin.
According to the Enterbrain sales data the PSP sold 274,131 units in June and the Wii sold 235,990 units. The PSP also outsold the Nintendo DS.
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Posted on Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:47:16 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Sony PS3 gains on Nintendo Wii Sales in Japan
The Sony PS3 console sales are getting closer to the still leading Wii console according to June sales numbers in Japan
Enterbrain reports that Nintendo sold 235,990 Wii consoles in the five weeks ended June 29th, while sales of the Sony PS3 reached 139,494 units.
The Xbox 360 does not count in the Japanese console race in Japan with only 10,964 consoles.
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Posted on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 06:46:53 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Japanese Students schooled with Nintendo
By Dan Sloan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo is banned everywhere but the classroom at Tokyo Joshi
Gakuen school in Japan as the ubiquitous DS consoles become the latest tool in
English instruction.
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Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:34:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Nokia plays catch up in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Nokia Corp will add public wireless LAN access to its handsets
in Japan in a bid to keep pace with smaller Japanese rivals that already provide
such network connections.
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Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
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