Steve Johnson

Just some interesting tidbit I found out of this week’s Famitsu magazine. Not fore sure how many people they polled, or which software makers they talked with, but anyway, here you go…

Which system are you most looking forward to at E3?

Users:
Wii........45.3%
PS3........44.8%
XBOX360.....4.4%

Software Makers:
Wii........47.4%
PS3........36.8%
XBOX360....None

I'm kind of impartial to the name personally, but one thing for sure, Nintendo has really done a good job of stirring up a lot of commotion with their “wii” announcement. Pretty much everywhere you look there a thread discussing what people think about it, might not be getting the best responses, but you’ve got a lot of people from all over the world talking about it, which is what Nintendo wants.

If they would have just left things as Revolution, I doubt you would have seen 1/10th of the response compared to what we're seeing now. There’s no such thing as bad PR.

>A friend of ours fluent in Japanese took a gander
>at the Japanese news site News 19...

Not to be a stickler or anything, but I'm guessing what your friend there was looking at was actually not some "News 19" site, but rather the conglomerate of Japanese forums known as 2ch.net. Just trying to keep things accurate, as if you look around, you’ll see there’s no Japanese site called News 19. There ARE some prefixes to 2ch where you might see something like news19.2ch.net or something, but it’s still all just part of 2ch.

@Balls

What #6 had to say there was an actual valid piece of information (lack of Japanese support for the 360 doesn't really help Microsoft out). Maybe it didn't really need to be brought up here, but at least he wasn't being as ass like you bringing up Hiroshima and Nagasaki, implying how dominate the US is compared to Japan because they killed thousands of innocent people with some nukes. That to me, is just you being a dick and throwing gas on the fire.

What the hell is with all this crap about bringing up Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a news clip about an HD-DVD addon for the 360, pure stupidity.

That, and what is so "sneaky" about those "Japs" owning some music labels and movie studios idude135, it's all fair business man, nothing sneaky about it all. That is, unless you're still some racist redneck with a grudge against the Japanese.

This is getting real old here with everyone complaining about how slow 2x Blue-Ray, I mean come on, is 72Mbps really that bad?