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The land of the rising sun has been a forbidding and inhospitable place for Microsoft’s gaming console. Despite solid sales elsewhere around the world, the Xbox 360 never really caught on in Japan, and both Sony and Nintendo crushed the gaijin console. To put it in perspective, the Wii has sold 11.74 million units in Japan and the PS3 has sold 6.85–compared to the American totals for each system, those numbers might seem low, but they are… Read More

Microsoft Japan has demonstrated the Xbox Live Video Chat system, revealing that the new video-conferencing package will support up to five simultaneous users and will launch in the Far East at the end of the year – with no US or European date mentioned as yet. The Video Chat system was originally unveiled at E3 last month, but this is the first time that it's been shown in operation – with the hardware (thought to be a… Read More

A Microsoft US spokesperson highlighted “considerations” including “the game's progression to date and the remaining development time needed to complete such an ambitious project,” while Microsoft Japan's press release said the game had been cancelled due to an inability to deliver a level of quality that would be acceptable to the consumer. “The MMORPG genre, across all platforms, has become an… Read More