The original Wii Fit was bought by millions of individuals, most of whom after two weeks of fun exergaming relegated the infernal peripherals to storage. Nintendo must be releasing some sort of mind control serum into Japanese water, because the new version of Wii Fit, suffixed with “Plus” is selling like proverbial hotcakes in the land of sake, udon noodles …

That’s it, it’s all over. The latest* Japanese sales are in and the PS3 sales have fallen of a cliff with reports coming in of a 300% drop in sales in merely a week. Unsurprisingly the Sony execs are holding emergency meetings as we speak to see if there is anyway to stop the PS3 from bringing down the entire …

Oh Japan! There is no place quite like you is there? Eroge, or Erotic games – shady and depraved as they may seem – are quite popular in the land of the rising sun and until the relatively recent RapeLay controversy seemed mostly innocuous. Enter Teatime, and their new eroge game Love Death 4. While it already contains questionable content, …

It’s not like Microsoft hasn’t tried really hard to fit in with Japan but in the end if you are a fat white dude you are going to stand out pretty badly in Japan and people aren’t going to be your friend. Despite Microsoft spending a ton of money on their Xbox 360 marketing campaign the sales in the land …

Mmnom mnom… I mean well come on now. You can’t say it comes as a surprise right? A sexy and famous gaming heroine like Bayonneta loved by men all over the world was bound to have her own photo book coming out, especially when the Japanese get involved and thats just one of the many reason we should never fault …

Star Ocean : The Last Hope, the Tri-ace developed, Square-Enix published RPG was released exclusively on the Xbox 360 earlier this year. It did pretty good business in Japan – so good in fact that it is to date the best selling 360 title in the land of the rising sun, with countless RPG fans having bought a 360 solely …

Japans PS3 Slim sales figures have been released after it’s first full week and it is doing pretty well indeed. In the last week 151 743 PS3 Slims have been taken home in the land of the rising sun. The DSi is next in line with 60,419 then comes the PSP way back with 22,184 closely followed by the Wii …

Namco’s Tales series is extremely popular amongst RPG aficionados, and Tales of Vesperia – once an Xbox 360 exclusive – is the sole reason that many Japanese gamers purchases Microsoft’s console. Namco reneged on the exclusivity, and decided the game was to go multiplatform. Not only that, but its newer, shinier PS3 port would include a myriad of fixes, tweaks …