Which one is the "design blunder"? The 5C? The 5S? iOS 7's terribad Safari icon?

The $15 plastic bit looks better than a piece of cardboard. Just saying.

Sorry if I came across rude, that was not my intention.

I assumed that to be familiar with the country's market you'd need to be able to understand the language. Anyway, December is a key month for sales in Japan.

Sorry, I thought you were familiar with the Japanese market. In romaji that would be something like "nenmatsu shousen."

Allow me to disagree.

Nope. Christmas -or at the very least the last 2 weeks of December- is a peak season for businesses in Japan. There's a reason it's called 年末商戦.

Just because a game use subtitles instead of dubbed audio doesn't mean that it's not localized. They still need to localize the entire in-game text, package and manual.

Christmas is a big holiday in Japan, at least as far as sales are concerned.

I don't think we've played the same game. JC2 is not a racing sim by any stretch of the imagination, but all 140 vehicles are perfectly drivable, with a minimum of practice to get used to the physics.

Thanks for clearing that out; I thought that you meant low graphical details.

Interestingly, I've never really missed the "lack of details" in Just Cause 2. I love both games (although JC2 is in my Top 3) but sometimes I wonder why other sandbox games have such small maps compared with JC2.

Meanwhile, Just Cause 2...

Because Nintendo/Sony's rigid business model is getting obsolete by the day; new developers are turned away by all the bureaucracy and costs incurred by developing for console manufacturers, and flock to iOS and Steam instead.

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He should have made an Xbone and walked away.

Now imagine the same conversation with someone from Japan.

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It's safe to say that the game bombed like hell: it sold about 5000 units on its first week in Japan, and about 7000 units in Europe. There's only about 1.5 million Wii U in the US, so unless they buy this game like crazy, this will probably end up one of the worst selling game of this generation.

I don't think so. The Nintendo BS was released about 20 years ago with titles such as BS Legend of Zelda, BS Dragon Quest, and BS Fire Emblem.