Geez people sure have short memories, Resident Evil 4 GC "exclusive" anyone? Mikami promising, even went so far to publically state that he will "kubikiri" (fire himself/resign) if RE4 goes anywhere else other than the GC?
Kojima has no say in where the game goes/stays and can deny it all he wants, but in the end it's up to the company, and if Konami thinks it's non-profitable for MGS to stay exclusive, then it won't be exclusive. I'm not saying this rumor is true and I'll believe it when I see it officially announced, but it's not impossible as some fanboys are claiming.
He will not make hundreds of thousands. Considering that the current markup for PS3 in Japan is only 20,000yen of RRP and still *dropping* because demand is so weak and the market is already flooded with resellers (PS3 prices at Akihabara saw a net in price from the peak 140k yen to 90k yen in 2 days due to oversupply and no demand), even selling all 100 he will only make 2mil yen net profit, which is only US$17k. Hardly enough to even buy the body of a Porsche Turbo, let alone making it into Forbes :rolls eyes:
Japanese phones are great entertainment devices, but they fail by a long shot at being serious business devices in today's information age, and the Blackberry will fill that void. Afterall this device is going to be marketed squarely as a business solution phone. There's a reason that the W-Zero3 for Willcom sold 150k units in about 6 months time, because there is a demand for this and currently no other carrier actually bothered to satisfy this demand.
Japanese teenagers can type emails on their phone fast only because they, like every other countries' youth, type in shorthands and broken speech patterns (think "wat r u up 2?" type of speech), and if you do that in a business situation you sure won't impress many clients. Polite and honorific speech patterns in Japanese is long and tedious, heck I even hate typing up a Japanese email on a full-size keyboard on my PC, and I can't for the life of me imagine doing it on a mobile phone even with predictive input.
Most Japanese phones don't actually support global roaming, especially not DoCoMo phones. Only Vodafone (now Softbank) actually has a decent line-up of quadband GSM/WCDMA phones. DoCoMo's GSM-capable lineup can be counted in one hand, and frankly they are all cheaply made and horribly designed.
That's not the W41T in the photo though but the W41H, which is made by Hitachi, as you can clearly see the words "Hitachi" at the bottom of the phone screen in the last photo in the link.
I've hold the W41T and it's a fat phone that's about 3cm thick when closed. Somehow I doubt it will be well recieved by the Japanese public.
Heightened Rumor: Metal Gear Solid 4 not a PS3 exclusive
Dec 17th 2006 11:05PM (Joystiq)Kojima has no say in where the game goes/stays and can deny it all he wants, but in the end it's up to the company, and if Konami thinks it's non-profitable for MGS to stay exclusive, then it won't be exclusive. I'm not saying this rumor is true and I'll believe it when I see it officially announced, but it's not impossible as some fanboys are claiming.
Some dude is reselling 100 PS3s, gonna get paid
Nov 14th 2006 9:29PM (Joystiq)Considering that the current markup for PS3 in Japan is only 20,000yen of RRP and still *dropping* because demand is so weak and the market is already flooded with resellers (PS3 prices at Akihabara saw a net in price from the peak 140k yen to 90k yen in 2 days due to oversupply and no demand), even selling all 100 he will only make 2mil yen net profit, which is only US$17k. Hardly enough to even buy the body of a Porsche Turbo, let alone making it into Forbes :rolls eyes:
Nice sum of cash yes, but hardly big MONEY.
DoCoMo bringing BlackBerry to Japan
Jun 9th 2006 12:17AM (Engadget)Japanese teenagers can type emails on their phone fast only because they, like every other countries' youth, type in shorthands and broken speech patterns (think "wat r u up 2?" type of speech), and if you do that in a business situation you sure won't impress many clients. Polite and honorific speech patterns in Japanese is long and tedious, heck I even hate typing up a Japanese email on a full-size keyboard on my PC, and I can't for the life of me imagine doing it on a mobile phone even with predictive input.
Most Japanese phones don't actually support global roaming, especially not DoCoMo phones. Only Vodafone (now Softbank) actually has a decent line-up of quadband GSM/WCDMA phones. DoCoMo's GSM-capable lineup can be counted in one hand, and frankly they are all cheaply made and horribly designed.
Toshiba's upcoming W41T "MUSIC-HDD"
Jan 17th 2006 11:34AM (Engadget)I've hold the W41T and it's a fat phone that's about 3cm thick when closed. Somehow I doubt it will be well recieved by the Japanese public.