Sun Tzu
Bandito
Sentite cosa dice la rivista straniera "OXM": "The outlook for the Xbox in Japan in on the up. A series of upbeat announcements and statistics has shed a rosier glow on the system's (so far) weakest territory. While enjoying a second place worldwide overall and a very distant lead over Nintendo in Europe and the US, the system has languished in the doldrums in Japan,until now.
Not one, not two, but three Xbox products placed in the recent Japanese top 20, including Project Gotham Racing 2 at No.7,closely followed by Microsoft's own Magatama at No.8. Add to that confirmation that True Fantasy Live Online would ship in June of 2004, and a recent survey indicating that 17% of Japanese gamers polled wanted an Xbox, and the picture looks far from grim.
One other neat statistic is Sega's announcement that Phantasy Star Online is now the number one online RPG for consoles with an epic 500,000 registered users-although that figure represents all formats and not just the Xbox version. And perhaps more compellingly, Yoshihiro Maruyama,the general manager of Microsoft's Xbox division in Japan,recently set the rumor mill turning when he stated that Microsoft was interested in,"making an environment where they will want to do buisness on our platform"when quizzed on the possibility of a Square/Enix RPG for Xbox. Mr. Maruyama,we should note was previously a vice president at the US division of Squaresoft. So he probably has a good idea Square/Enix wants."
Bravo zio Bill, tra poco avremo anche Square/Enix!
Not one, not two, but three Xbox products placed in the recent Japanese top 20, including Project Gotham Racing 2 at No.7,closely followed by Microsoft's own Magatama at No.8. Add to that confirmation that True Fantasy Live Online would ship in June of 2004, and a recent survey indicating that 17% of Japanese gamers polled wanted an Xbox, and the picture looks far from grim.
One other neat statistic is Sega's announcement that Phantasy Star Online is now the number one online RPG for consoles with an epic 500,000 registered users-although that figure represents all formats and not just the Xbox version. And perhaps more compellingly, Yoshihiro Maruyama,the general manager of Microsoft's Xbox division in Japan,recently set the rumor mill turning when he stated that Microsoft was interested in,"making an environment where they will want to do buisness on our platform"when quizzed on the possibility of a Square/Enix RPG for Xbox. Mr. Maruyama,we should note was previously a vice president at the US division of Squaresoft. So he probably has a good idea Square/Enix wants."
Bravo zio Bill, tra poco avremo anche Square/Enix!
"Il leone usa tutta la sua forza anche per uccidere un coniglio"
:-O 
