PS3 final hitting a million in Japan

Yep, good news (depends if you're Phil Harrison a Sony employee or not) for Sony. The PS3 has hit 1 million unit in Japan. Famitsu reported that the PS3 as at 15 July 2007, the number of PS3 sold mount up to 1,010,492 units.

Took them long enough (8 months). Not entirely unexpected, given the Media Create numbers indicating that the PS2 has continuously outsold the PS3 week in week out.

Gundam Muso sold 280,000, while Ridge Racing 7 and Gundam: Target in Sight sold a respectable 140,000 and 138,000 respectively.

No doubt someone at Sony will make a big fuss about the milestone, how it is out-selling than the Xbox 360 in Japan, yadda, yadda, yadda. Because, you know, it's the only home console that it is outselling at the moment.

Source: Famitsu [via Kotaku]

New Final Fantasy Potion

Still on Final Fantasy. Some of you might remember Square Enix joined forces with Suntory to produce Final Fantasy XII potion drink back in 2006. Not sure how many actually drank the thing. But that's besides the point.

Now, Square Enix is at it again. "Final Fantasy VII 10th Anniversary Potion" will get a September 13th release, to coincide with the release of Crisis Core on the PSP on the same day, no doubt. The drink will set you around ¥3,980 each.

Not sure how many of us would drink that stuff... again. But if you do, that's what you'll be getting inside you: dolomite (to represent "the earth crust’s energy"), royal jelly and vitamin B1.

The question here is not whether to drink it or not, but how in the hell are you going to put it on display? As you might have noticed, there is not flat bottom.

Source: Japan News Review

Square Enix on yet another special edition. This time, it's the PSP.

After the nth million special edition on the DS, Square Enix has finally run the other direction. Still a Final Fantasy Special Edition, but this time on the PSP. It comes in Ice Silver with only 77,777 made. I guess the number just so happens to be the number 7 for FF VII. Just a guess.

Coming out on 13 Sept 2007, it will set you 25,890 yen for one, plus the game Crisis Core. Better start saving, not for the PSP, but for the trip to Japan. Yep, it's Japan only.

For those who can't afford the trip, you can of course get it from PlayAsia. But expect to pay premium price for it.

So now us DS owners can't put our FF DS Lite SE in your face any more. But what the hell, you know we'll do it anyway.

Source: GameWatch

Interview with Toriyama and Yokoyama of FFXII: Revenant Wings

IGN had a chance to catch up with Toriyama and Yokoyama, both involved in the Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings game. While the game didn't quite ignite a FF rush on the DS, it is still a success in Japan.

Read on to find out how the Western version of the game has more dungeon, more enemy and the possibility of FFF (Final Fantasy Fit).

Source: IGN

Lawsuit filed against Microsoft... again.

This time, it's the unhappy Xbox 360 owners that are suing Microsoft for scratched disc. The lawsuit claims that Xbox 360s scratch game discs, making them unusable. Thousands of people have been affected by and have complained to Microsoft about the problem.

Microsoft offers a worldwide disc replacement program for games that it authors. A user can send a damaged disc back to Microsoft plus $20 and receive a replacement. Microsoft also will examine and repair consoles that consumers believe may have scratched discs, the company said.

So what they are basically saying is that I need to pay $50 for a game, and on top of that, another $20 if it's scratched due to no fault of my own.

No wonder they are suing Microsoft.

Well done, Microsoft. Your fucked up hardware scratch disc, die while playing, 1 in 3 doesn't even bloody work and has a fault that is so general that no-one knows what it is. How the hell did you sell 11 million of these $500 paperweight?

Source: Washington Post

PSP slim colour hitting Japan.

So the DS Phat has colours, the DS lite has colours, the PSP Phat has colours, and now the PSP Slim has colours (wow, didn't see that coming there). The PSP Slim will hit Japan September 20th for ¥19,800 (US $162) and will come in six colours: Piano Black, Ceramic White, Ice Silver, Rose Pink, Lavender Purple and Felicia Blue. All six colours coming at once.

In all seriousness, PSP Slim looks no difference than the PSP Phat, except for being 33 percent lighter, 19 percent slimmer, has sped up game load times and improved battery life. The only real "new" features is a video output capability to allow you to play your PSP games on a big screen TV. At least the DS Lite has some major design change. I don't know, it just doesn't feel all that fresh for me. I was expecting something flashier.

Source: Kotaku, Engadget

60GB PS3 no more.

Kaz, the new head of SECI, has confirmed that the 60GB PS3 is no more. In an interview with a Norwegian site VGTV, US will not see any more 60GB after the current stock runs out. Instead, they will see a upped 80GB with the game MotoStorm, at a SRP of $599, same price as before.

Sometimes you just knew a price cut is too good to be true.

Source: Kotaku