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Sunday Comics: Dead Island The biggest Japanese game magazine, Famitsu, has awarded its highest score to stealth game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. In the process, the publication has shown why, as a source of objective game reviews, it cannot be trusted. Here’s why:
Famitsu Editor-in-Chief Hirokazu Hamamura has looked into his crystal ball and has opinions about how Dragon Quest IX will do in 2009. And it’ll do mega, he forecasts.
Famitsu editor Hirokazu Hamamura isn’t just an editor. He’s a pundit! And he’s got a bag full of opinions with him to share. Hamamura thinks the PS3′s “slow penetration” is improving. Nice and slow, that’s how Sony does it. According to Hamamura:
The PS3′s penetration pace has been slower than I expected. Its higher price tag and software development difficulties have been major causes for stalling the growth of its installed base. However, these problems are gradually being resolved.
If the console gets another price cut by the year-end shopping season, I believe its penetration pace will become accelerated.
Don’t blame Hamamura for the “penetration”, blame the translator.
According to Bloomberg Japan, Enterbrain (Famitsu’s parent company) honcho Hirokazu Hamamura has said that Nintendo might unveil a new DS model at E3 2008. While Ash is asleep and our Google Translate only takes us so far, there doesn’t appear to be any other information of note other than Nintendo declining to comment on the rumour.
