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Anyone been to Japan? I have, and I have never visited a country so obsessed with western products and brands, American included. Japanese only buying their own brand is a myth. It's a pretty persistent stereotype too.

Wake up lads. It's comfortable blaming their supposed nationalism as it allows us to avoid confronting the real reasons why Xbox line failed i.e. games. But if we wanted any Xbox to do well there in the future, it would be in OUR best interest to wake up to this fact.

It seems they're digging in for a long fight. I think that's right too. I don't think at their price they can model their business like a normal console. Instead, they have to model it more like selling TVs and cars. They obviously know that.

The rest is down to how solid they can make the software support for PS3 in around 2007/2008. If they can get 4+ exclusive world beaters, I reckon they will survive.

It's a deadly line to walk though.

John: "Hey guys, they are using a kinda similar idea as ours!"

Luke: "Heh... but they got theirs to work."

Mark: "Actually, can't we sue them for some cash?"

Mathew: "You're right...! But we should wait till Wii lauches and see them sell out. That way we can max out the fees."

John: "Hmm... but Wiimote is quite different, push comes to shove."

Luke: "Yeah I know... but who knows, Nintendo is rich and it might work."

Mark: "I know. We could sue them for the trigger! It's our most likely path to a fortune."

Mathew: "Alright then guys, we'll sue them when they've sold enough units."

John Luke Mathew Mark: "ALRIGHT!!"

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And so it all began...

They Whinge Whinge Whinge Whinge Whinge Whinge Whinge Whinge Whinge Whinge Whinge Whinge Whinge Whinge Away.

Oh, incidentally the sharp edges of Wii is looking dangerous and giving me sleepless nights. C'mon, Nintendo, you are better than this.

It's just a USB stick that happens to come bundled with a 3rd party software which does fortune reading.

This articles takes that news and reinvents it by skewing it. It's a little misleading really.

You know, I have no love for Sony personally, but the anti-Sony spin in this article reads so horribly... to the point that it's almost like a propaganda masquerading as an article. That sort of article has been pretty frequent too in recent weeks.

I like Joystiq overall, but it's at times like this that I think the site would benefit from having one chief editor to do the quality control. I know it's a blog, but enough people read it, surely Joystiq itself would benefit from having such standards.

I have my doubts over PS3 as many others, but articles like this ridicule Joystiq.

These days I don't know what the "standard" is for Joystiq articles. While back it was very anti-Nintendo. Then things changed a bit, and now it's often anti-Sony.

From journalism standpoint, this article is poor. I've been leaning towards 360 and Wii for months now, but this seems like an unnecessary cheap shot at PS3, likely seen more often in school play grounds.

I don't think it would hurt Joystiq to bring in a bit more rationale and discipline in some of the articles. It's one thing to present facts and statistics, something else to put a childish spin.

Probably because of years of sitting down at gamepad and doing nothing else.

No doubt EA is ultimately in for crossplatform for profit, but wasn't it them who setup British-Columbia department to specifically look into how they can transform their games into wii control scheme?

I don't know how robust that is though, but seems like a good start.

Gaming has become multi-dimensional thanks to Nintendo. Are there enough rocks out there for the critiques of DS/Wii to hide under? They were out in droves a year ago... where are they now?