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Well kind of, if you happen to be catching the public transport system in Japan, you'll now be able to download one minute snippet of news when you're travelling on the Tsukuba Express train line, you'll have access to 8, count 'em - 8...
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The PSP absolutely reigned for the month of April in Japan with sales nearly doubling the DS. Figures for the PSP equate to 380,000 units while the DS came in with 170,000, that's a ratio of 2 to 1 in the PSP's favour according to Japanese magazine...
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For what seems to be a reoccurring theme in Japan lately, the Sony PSP has beaten out all other competitors in sales charts in Japan for the past week. It managed to sell 85,000 units which is a drop in sales on past weeks but still nearly doubles that...
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Just when you thought the Nintendo DS had done all it could do, news has come out of Japan that the humble little portable has surpassed the 100 million units of software sold since going on sale. The amazing accomplishment was achieved in only 3 years...
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More wacky news from Japan, a surver recently was conducted to determine what percentage of males and females used Sony's PSP and Nintendo's DS as their portable hardware of choice. Interesting results below with the pie graph. It appears that...
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Reported lately in this fine publication was the news that the PSP was doing great business in Japan due to Monster Hunter being released bunping up sales. Well, the Blu-ray behemoth, the PS3 has now finally passed the 2 million mark in Japan making it...
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From the Crazy Land of the Rising Sun, comes the latest Sega franchise to make a unique and at the same time strange impact. New DS title, English of the Dead, is aimed at teaching the humble Japanese folk the finer art of the English language by using...
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Funnily enough, gangster title, Yakuza, has sold big in Japan on Sony's behemoth, the PS3. It managed to sell 181,189 in it's first week alone but it still couldn't topple the record set by Devil May Cry 4. Despite the release of a new colour...
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One of the biggest RPG's released in Japan for the Nintendo DS is receiving a Western release. Titled Soma Bringer, it's in the style of the classic dungeon crawlers of past and hack and slash adventures. Words don't do it justice, check out...
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Holy Toledo, what next? Now it's being revealed that the Tokyo-based Hitachi Display and Osaka-based Sharp Corp. have been investigated by the Japan Fair Trade Commission over allegations that both parties have been indulging in a little antitrust...