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@Jason

You're completely wrong. Wait for Sunday when there are none left to be had.

Buncha fucknut retard fanboy morons.

Goddamn you 360 morons are rabid today.

Hey JackOff, you never did say how much they're paying your sorry ass.

@Myke

They're all going to sell out all over Europe.

There was a ton of bad press surrounding the US launch and they sold out here too. All you fanboys continue with the same mantra and it makes zero difference regardless of what you want to believe.

@Myke

Your experiences and points are valid and I am not denying them. I hope that you see and understand the linkage I am making though.

It's a scary situation and it can easily turn into something very ugly.

As for the "anti-American" position that appears to permeate Japanese society in regards to gaming, I don't think that they're wrong, regardless of the motivation. Sony uses Microsoft as a defacto standard for their computing hardware, so the gaming console wars are a very interesting situation. Theirs is a very complex and sometimes un-graspable society. While some things appear very simple, they are truly complex.

@Myke

Ignorance doesn't cover you here. Your statement was racist regardless of how non-racist you believe yourself to be. Xenophobia falls under the guise of racism too. Your statement has nothing to do with the honor/caste system of the Japanese culture it has to do with ignorance of a culture. An interpretive lack of honor does not equate to your comment, your comment is ignorant of a culture and demonstrates xenophobia and thereby racism. Get over it and expand your horizons. The Japanese people do not refer to Americans as "capitalist pigs", communists used to. The Japanese have never been communists, as I pointed out before, that would be the Chinese and the Soviets. It's also questionable how many of those people would have ever said such a thing, it's more along the lines of what Americans claimed they said about the Americans in order to demonize the communists. Accept your mistakes, have the balls to apologize for those insensitive comments and move on. Trying to defend yourself by counting the people you are friends with as a justification as to why you are not a racist disrespects them just as much as your initial poorly chosen remarks.

I get your point, but demonstrate some consideration. You're better than that.

@Myke

"(capitalist pigs, blah blah blah I'm guessing)"

Wow, you are either a racist or completely ignorant of the Japanese culture. You do realize that the Japanese are also capitalists and your off-hand remark is against the Chinese right? China is the last stronghold of communism, not Japan. So you're either ignorant or racist, or perhaps both.

People had also become used to multi-disc games back then, when the capacity maxed out at 700 MB. Today people don't want multi-disc games.

Take Blue Dragon for example. It was supposed to be the turning point for the 360 in Japan and didn't sell nearly as well as MS had hoped. I conclude this had to do with the fact that it is on multiple discs to begin with.

@JackOffNoTrades

Thank you for confirming you work for MS as nobody else has access to that kind of information unless they are being paid to spread the FUD, uh, word.

@Neal

My 1080p set tells me that the 360 is putting out 1080i, not 1080p regardless of what the menu in the 360 says.

@Vidikron

I'm sure that you are right, but that doesn't change the fact that there are now, and will most likely be, titles that take away from my expected user experience.