The usual routine with porting hit titles across various seas is the outsourcing of region-publishing to local studios for efficiency. Developer Take-Two is taking the more personal road, by opening a branch office of their own in Tokyo, Japan to coincide with the region launch of the bundled Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City […]
Unsurprisingly, Square Enix’s launch of Final Fantasy XIII was a gigantic press event in Japan, and proved immensely successful once the first week’s sales figures came in. The developer-publisher announced that at least one million copies were sold during the game’s first 24 hours, not counting those bundled with the PS3 hardware. Japanese gaming magazine […]
Both Sony and Nintendo have something to celebrate this holiday season, as both of their home consoles have hit major fiscal milestones in their native land of the rising sun. According to financial monitoring firm Enterbrain, the Playstation 3 has now officially sold beyond 4 million units in the country, with the Wii pushing 9 […]
The Japanese market has been good to the PSP, picking up 12 million units of the portable hardware since its December 2004 launch. It’s this fervent support that Sony Computer Entertainment wants to maintain not only with the October 1st release of the PSP Go, but also with the cheaper, older SKUs of the system […]