Demo: Burnout Paradise (Japan)

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JohnnyDethmatch — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Stupid question, but how many people from Japan visit your site? I mean, on average?

Just curious. :)

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Rocky2000 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Good to see Japan getting one of the best demos on marketplace!

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drewjube — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:21:10 GMT

@Runway 360: Thank you very much for the info. I wish MS Korea would do as much.

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NeshyD — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:37:43 GMT

hahah yeah troyBORG, that's Katakana, it's used for foreign words (such as Burnout Paradise) So the word is still the same, but of course in Japanese characters.. while Hiragana is used for native Japanese words.

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troyBORG — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:05:08 GMT

@Valkysas

Did anyone babelfish what he said? Thats not very nice!

Whats funny is how you say the game is the same as english!

バーンアウトパラダイス

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MACPH1ST0 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:43:10 GMT

Uhm Shamrock, you do NOT need the first three blades to load to play a single-player game on disc. Just go to the Media blade and you can access the game disc from there. Or if it really bothers you that much, just change your Console Settings to load from the disc on startup instead of the dashboard.

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NeshyD — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:55:52 GMT

yay! Thanks for the update! I'll tell my friends, so I can finally play an awesome demo with them tonight!

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NeshyD — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:51:38 GMT

yay! Thanks for the update! I'll let my Japanese friends know about it, so they can enjoy a great demo with me tonight!

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Runway 360 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:52:45 GMT

@drewjube

"Not available in Japan" has become a wide-spread buzzword among the 360 users in the online community.

Yes, we have recently received explanations about this. Recently the Website "Ascii.jp" interviewed Japanese Xbox's PR manager and asked him if the occurrence of "Not available in Japan" could be decreased.

As the background, he cited decisions by the third party companies, ethics standards in different regions, and issues of music copyright.

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NSK Inv4d3r G1R — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:35:09 GMT

I hope I get to see people from Japan in the games I play.

If not, that's okay.

As long as they're playing it. =]

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drewjube — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:12:42 GMT

@Runway 360: Japan, like Korea (although not as much) is also often excluded from Live Arcade title releases. Have you guys ever received any explanation for that? I've been trying for months to get "Major Nelson" or "Gamerscoreblog" to explain, but they're obviously preoccupied with other things.

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I Lynch012 I — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:54:09 GMT

I'm pretty sick of every game but Halo 3 not working. Conspiracy? <_<

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Snacman — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:22:15 GMT

適切な非常に熱いタイヤ車についてのすばらしい極度の幸福 ! !

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Runway 360 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:32:07 GMT

Major Nelson, thank you for the info.

I greatly enjoyed the demo even though I am not sure if I'm buying the game (no money!).

Any way, Japan is watching you. The Xbox 360 General Discussion thread in the famous bulletin board "2Chan" always has the link to MajorNelson.com in the first post. Also, one of the Japanese forum members in the Xbox.com Forums kept translating your posts into Japanese when we were experiencing the serious Live outage.

So, please continue giving us information.

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AnEternalEnigma — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:11:27 GMT

Major Nelson can no longer make status updates due to the class action lawsuit that was filed by a lawyer in Texas. Once that happens, they are prohibited by law from talking about the status of Live. If you want to get bent about no more status updates, yell at the lawyer who filed the lawsuit, not Microsoft.

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drewjube — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:42:26 GMT

"We actually get quite a large amount of traffic from Japan, even if not many of the comments here are written by our Japanese visitors.

Also, if you want to find out why Major isn't mentioning Xbox Live as of late wait for his cast later today.

-lith"

Do you get any traffic from Korea? Would you consider explaining to your Korean visitors why you've withheld over three dozen Live Arcade titles from Korea? And if you are going to say it's licensing, please explain why you can license and sell us gamer pics and themes from games, but not the games themselves.

TIA