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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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In Japan, Mario Kart had enjoyed top spot on the charts until Monster Hunter for the PSP took the top spot after MK spent 5 weeks at the top. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G managed to sell 53,000 units in Japan while Mario Kart sold 42,000, still a very...
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Quick and important lesson for everyone out there thinking about building their stock portfolio for when they retire...buy shares in Nintendo!! Former Nintendo President and Chairman, Hiroshi Yamauchi, is laughing all the way to retirement after having...
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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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Reports today from Nintendo that they have forecasted selling another 25 million Wiis over the next 12 months bringing the total up to 50 million. Absolutely staggering. Their profits have already gone up 50% to $2.5 billion for the Japanese fiscal year...
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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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After what seems like an eternity and having to purchase exclusive goodies from Ebay, Club Nintendo is going to be launched in Australia. Japan have had it for years with some absolutely mind blowing goodies and extras which we've had to go without...
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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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Following a short sales burst of thre Sony PSP in Japan due the release of new mint green edition, the Nintendo Wii relaims the top spot for most units shifted for the past week. For the week, the Wii sold 57,000 units, The PSP was in second place with...
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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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Figures from the Land of the Rising Sun show that from Jan 28th to Feb 24th, Sony managed to shift 89,131 PS3 units and 38,648 PS2s with the surprising dark horse being the handheld, the PSP which somehow managed to push out 223,570 units. This was only...