The oddly famous Michael Pachter has come out with his April predictions and if he is remotely correct then we are going to see the Wii completely dominate America again with around 480 000 units sold with the 360 coming in second with 275 000 units. However the big story doing the rounds this morning is that the PS3 is …

The latest Japanese sales are out and Sony are the boys with the biggest smile out this weekend. First up is the fact that the PSP went head to head with the new Nintendo DSi and matched it in sales. Both the PSP and DSi managed to sell 36 000 units and it’s only down to the fact that the …

I am happy to admit that I really did expect the Wii to have regained it’s throne in Japan by now but apparently everyone in Japan now has a Wii and now they are turning to the PS3 for their gaming desires. The latest Japanese sales are out and even more surprising than the PS3 outselling the Wii is that …

It appears that Sony has had enough of Microsoft trying to annex Japan and the Americanised Nintendo ruling in the land of the rising sun. With a glint in it’s eye and a smile on it’s face, Sony has been marketing itself silly in Japan and it appears that it is really paying off. For the second month running now …

A 21-Year-Old Japanese man on the heavily overcrowded Psycho Saikyo Line train was asked to stop playing his cellphone games by an elderly lady. He then did what any sane, rational person would do; He peppered the air with a string of colourful expletives before repeatedly punching the old crone in the face, breaking her jaw in the process. After …

I am not sure what to make of this story to be honest. Reports are coming in that Sony has decided to stop shipping PS3’s to South Korea because of the fact that Japanese tourists were snapping them up and taking them back to Japan. Apparently Sony are very perturbed by the process of ‘reverse importing’, the process of exporting …

Three sixteen-yea- old French idiots have been arrested in Japan for stealing games and consoles to the value of 1 million Yen (about R105 000) from Sofmap, a retailer in the Japan’s Akihabara region. The teens appropriated a total of 92 games and seven consoles in 18 separate capers since November of last year. Japanese people being Japanese, nobody tried …

Okay so lets take a look at this awesome graph that Gaming Front Network has put together to show us how the Xbox 360 is dead in Japan. This graph depicts the amount of software sales in Japan and as we can easily see the pie chart on the left (2008) has a larger wedge for the Xbox 360 than …