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Xbox Japan Boss Is Wasted On Japan
Posted by Luke Plunkett at 12:20 AM on March 4, 2008
The best thing to come out of Microsoft's Japanese XNA awards night weren't the games themselves. Not even close. No, the best part was the arrival of Xbox Japan boss Takashi Sensui, who didn't just walk onto the stage. He didn't use steps, like mortal men. No, the dude descended in a gondola. And not just any gondola, a gondola called "THE CANDY HOUSE". Look at him wave! He's loving it. In these cold, unexciting times, when the industry's most colourful platform executives have either moved on or moved away (Allard, Kutaragi, Moore, Harrison), Sensui is the sole bastion of corporate good times. If only Microsoft had left Don "Who?" Mattrick where he was and made this guy Xbox boss.
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antaeusX
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
Sensui is kinda sexy too!
antaeusX
yeahblah
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
It says he's the 'senior manager' of MS's XNA Group, so Sensui's underlings are apparently as insane as him.
Good for them.
yeahblah
polarenvy
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
Fuck that, who's the guy riding on the Panda?
polarenvy
Spartan1308
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
@Brian Ashcraft: Yes, can we vote?
"If only Microsoft had left Don "Who?" Mattrick where he was and made this guy Xbox boss."
I was asking for this last year when Moore left. Sensui has personality and it showed in a couple of videos that were posted here back at the time of TGS. I guess they want to put their best efforts towards their worst market. Maybe he's being held back by his inability to miraculously make the Japanese buy 360s. Someone should realize that isn't his fault.
Spartan1308
DaiMacculate
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
@Luke Plunkett: Heh just wait, I'm sure when/if Nintendo gets back into an "underdog" position he'll be back in Crazy Reggie form ;)
DaiMacculate
Luke Plunkett
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
@Purple Dave: Reggie's gone BORING. No more ass-kicking, he's all about counting money and staying on-message these days. BORING.
Luke Plunkett
Sailorcancer
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
He has an AMAZING house!
Sailorcancer
DaveKap
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
They see him floatin'... they hatin'...
DaveKap
Bakeroo
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
I assume we mean that he's to good for the land of the rising sun, not that Japan has an intoxicating effect.
Bakeroo
Purple Dave
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
*coughREGGIEcough* What's that? Oh, I though we were talking about how all the interesting console execs had moved on from their jobs.
Purple Dave
HobbaHobba
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
Hm... I love sweets....
HobbaHobba
DiscipleofJamzy
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
I'm thinking this should be the default picture for any story about the Xbox division in Japan.
DiscipleofJamzy
okenny :)
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
And this is why, Luke, you don't make these kinds of decisions ;). BTW, the thought of the likes of Jeff Bell riding a candy-cane pony onto a press stage scares the hell out of me!
okenny :)
BenignMuffin
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
KAWAI!!!
BenignMuffin
karmakid
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
wonder if he takes it out drifting....driftoooohhh
karmakid
DaiMacculate
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
Hey I like it, at least MS has gone and hired some hardcore dudes, it may not mean much this generation but assuming they're in it for the long haul guys like this are gonna be there as well.
Of course MS' long term prospects bring up mixed feelings for me, especially in the wake of my 360 console failing to turn on at all last night. Combined with trying to talk to MS tech support while having laryngitis, it was a down evening. They told me to take it to "EB Games" today and make sure its not just my power brick thats screwed up...we'll see I guess :(
DaiMacculate
muu
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
The guy riding the panda seemed much much worse, though I guess he probably wasn't as important.
And holy shit, Kotaku's site's not fubared from the workplace for the first time in a while.
@Kuro: Candy Shack.
muu
Kuro
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
おかしのいえ!? The Crazy House? Pure genius ^^
Kuro
cebukid
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
I think his waving to Hansel & Gretel.
cebukid
Brian Ashcraft
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
Sensui 2008.
Let's make this happen, DAMMIT!!
Brian Ashcraft
Komrade_Kayce
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
I think this proves that you'd have to be legally insane to run anything Microsoft related in Japan.
Komrade_Kayce
njhardcoreguy
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
But then the gondola's green lights turned red and it immediately shut down.
njhardcoreguy
Witzbold
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
I saw him at the TGS forgot to ask him a few questions though, since was being stupid and messing with a 360 booth instead. :x
Witzbold
baked ham
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
I don't get it.
baked ham
sUKi
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
@dunetiger : apples are red:
He's melting it when it decided to have the 360 power it.
sUKi
Snake726
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
This guy rides in style.
Snake726
Silverwolf
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
What a candy ass freak.
Silverwolf
meandering_drivel
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
is it edible?
meandering_drivel
dunetiger : apples are red
Posted 5:29 AM 6/3/08
What on earth does that have to do with the Xbox? There's nothing obnoxiously green on that Candy House! BOO-URNS!
dunetiger : apples are red