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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:05 pm

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The 360 just lost some more potential Japanese players with some weird territorial dispute thing... I don't even know what's going on... Something about Microsoft banning names containing words with regards to the Takeshima... place... thing... I have no idea what it is... A piece of land that Korea and Japan is fighting over for no real reason I guess... (It's uninhabited, and holds little to no value...)

And supposedly the demographic that plays the 360 in Japan are mainly Hardcore gamers who are all supposedly ultra-conservative nationalist...

So... yeah... I know... It's ridiculous...

Here's a video demonstrating the banned usage of the word, some wacky comments from people, a screenshot, and a report from a news site (Note : it's in Japanese. Hopefully one of the major news outlet will pick this news up later, and report it in English.) that I rarely use...

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=LxWb8W-_Cwc
http://i12.tinypic.com/6x9va89.jpg
http://www.excite.co.jp/News/society/20071206191214/JCast_14245.html

Another nail in the coffin for the 360 in Japan?

Weird news days...

Discuss...

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:31 pm

They're screwed.
Not just the fans, but M$ as well.

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Arvis_Jaggamar
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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:55 pm

I don't even understand any of this. Microsoft banned a word? Can it do that?

Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 4:55 pm

tangocat777

They're screwed.
Not just the fans, but M$ as well.

MS/Fans aren't really screwed because we don't have Japan. It's not like America is boycotting Microsoft... it'd be different if we lost an ally. The Xbox has never really been tight in Japan.

Daxel pretty much summed it up:

Daxelman

So basically, Microsoft doesn't want to get caught in a War by labling a piece of useless undecided land, and Korea and Japan are shunning em for it?

First, the teddy bear thing, then, some chic get's raped, and SHE goes to jail for it, now this.
Oh Great One, what the hell is next.......

The more I think about it, the more I hope things like Cloverfield and Year Zero come true, only on a mass world scale.

~Daxelman~

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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:05 pm

I'm starting not to like the, "quote" option. Unfortunately, I kept thinking if the 360 doesn't do better in other countries it won't be what MS is aiming for.

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