
A survey asking 1.5 million respondents whether their console had suffered a hardware failure has revealed that the Xbox 360 may well have the shameful distinction of being the least reliable console ever made, with a staggering 42% experiencing hardware failures, against 8% for the PS3 and a mere 1% for the Wii.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 9, 2010 05:50 JST
- Tags: 3D CG, Comparison, Fail, Nintendo, PS2, RPG, Video Gallery, Wii, Xenosaga



The latest title in the much esteemed Xenosaga/Xenogears line of games, Xenoblade, is a causing a stir for all the wrong reasons.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 3, 2010 15:07 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Marketing, Nintendo, PS3, Rankings, Sony, Statistics, Wii, Xbox 360


The latest sales figures for the first quarter of 2010 show the PS3 rising to total ascendancy over the Japanese gaming market.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Mar 26, 2010 00:08 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Dating, DS, Konami, Love Plus, Nintendo, Otaku, Ronery, Video Gallery

Love Plus+ has been officially dated, and the planned additions probably spell pleasant doom for thousands more Japanese men as they find themselves courting Nene rather than having a wife take all their money.
Even Nintendo’s ads now tout the DSi LL as the perfect system for “communicating” with the girls of Love Plus…
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Sony’s PS3 motion controller, officially dubbed PlayStation Move, is to be available this autumn for about $100.
Previously it has garnered much attention both for its sex toy styling and its obvious similarity to the Wiimote, but alpha play-testing now reveals it also possesses the rather more dubious distinction of being “discernibly inferior” to the Wii in terms of lag and accuracy.
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Insipid gaming rag Famitsu has quizzed its readership on who they think the “coolest” video game characters to be, with the list displaying all the taste and discernment that could reasonably be expected of a mob of impressionable schoolboys.
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The results of a market survey of Japanese Wii users seems to indicate the Wii is very much the console of little boys and older women, the two largest groupings.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Jan 23, 2010 23:26 JST
- Tags: Microsoft, Nintendo, Parody, PS3, Sony, Wii, Xbox 360, Yaoi

The battle between the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 has been reconstructed in yaoi manga form, visible below.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 16, 2010 16:12 JST
- Tags: Christmas, DS, Microsoft, Nintendo, PS3, PSP, USA, Wii, Xbox 360

Sony’s PS3 has outsold the Xbox 360 in the core market of the US this Christmas, a major coup for Sony as it tussles with Microsoft for the much coveted status of being the losers in second place.
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Capcom has expressed its disappointment with the Wii’s increasing inability to appeal to traditional gamers, blaming it for poor sales of some of its recent titles.
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Nintendo has conspicuously shut down a Zelda fan film on copyright grounds, disappointing fans who held the work in high regard.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Dec 28, 2009 18:16 JST
- Tags: Dragon Quest, DS, Nintendo, Pokemon, PS3, PSP, Rankings, RPG, Wii

The 30 top selling games of 2009 amply demonstrate the Japanese market continues to revolve around Nintendo, RPGs and the occasional dash of Sony, with precious little in the way of originality or novelty on display, not that these games are necessarily bad.
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