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"Microsoft's Best Friends??"

Its official Japan aren't taking to the Microsoft console and would prefer to spend thousands of Yen on Pokemon rather then on the XBox?

Why? Well Japan are mainly a tertiary and secondary industry country, they like to export excellent electronics and hate to import items from abraod, especially when it competes with one of there main industries which is gaming. Products which have gone on sale from America have never been sucessful and although Microsoft have spent millions of dollars in trying to create a firm hold still only a minority of people have heard of what the XBox is...

..so what is the next step for Microsoft, normally anything that happens in Japan is like a rough sketch of what is going to happen when its launched in Europe and America. I feel that a delay in the Xbox launch looks set, maybe not in America but definetly in this country and Japan, as yet no companies have received a final development kit for there games, now with a launch six months away any game which could be finished now will be rushed? I personally don't know what Microsoft are playing at, they don't seem to understand that its better to have good games, then lots of games.

With this news of Japan not taking change the way Microsoft launch or promote the Xbox, they can't move the launch forward, not now they have released it as three days after the Gamecube, maybe Nintendo knew, maybe it was seen in one of Shigeru's dreams, but the true is Microsoft are now into unknown territory, they can't manage to conquer the Japanese, and they don't seem to be bothered about the games...

I think its time for a re-think Bill. Don't You?

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er-no

If I totally ignored the fact that I'm one of the biggest Nintendo fans ever, I'd've probably chosen the megadrive over the SNES.

The Megadrive, although it's controllers were about as good quality as the budget Competition Pro range (Actualy Competition Pro SNES pads were alright....) I'd say was the better machine. It had much more colours, better quality sound effects (but not much better), and without any extra accessories it could play 32Bit games.

I even preferred the first Sonic game to some of Mario's games!

However if I did get a megadrive, I'd've missed out on a quality controller, The brilliant game which is Zelda 3: A Link to the Past, and the Super Gameboy which was excellent for playing the black and white Gameboy games on the TV, some games in full colour! (e.g. Donkey Kong)

Damn Yankees.

Sonic that was in Japan, in Europe the SNES was about equal to the MD, but in America the Plumber ruled the roost, and dominated the American market to the point that the N64 is still actually selling?

What is with those people?

Hmm. I had every Sonic game for the MD.

I just liked Sonic better than Mario, though. Also, it was more colourful.

er-no wrote:
> The SNES was more sucessful than the Mega Drive, just thought I
> would let you know!

the snes was a lot mor popular! It was only a year after it's release that the Mega Drive began to pick up big sales.

U know the original sonic the hedgehog wasn't a great success. The sequal was the one that made it big

Sonic

I thought the Mega Drive looked cooler.

The SNES was more sucessful than the Mega Drive, just thought I would let you know!

I think that Fighting Force is the closest modern game to Streets of Rage.

It'll be nice to be able to go around as a group of 4, beating up street scum.

I also think the Streets of Rage series had something to do with the Mega Drive's success, and there should be a next generation version of Streets of Rage.

Dan uk wrote:
> We love Bill Gates really. We just like to poke fun at him that's
> all :-)

Note to self:

1) Kill Bill Gates
2) Ditto to Dan uk


(Just joking, I'm not really gonna kill anyone )