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Advent Children Complete sells over 100k copies in Japan {Joystiq Playstation}
Apr 25th 2009 3:07AM Humberto from AnimeNews here, just wanted to add that another reason for the high sales volume for the movie has to do with pricing.
The regular edition of the movie without the demo is priced at around US $38 for retail in Japan, with the Limited Edition demo bundle going for around $80, so it makes sense that the majority of the volume would be from the gamers going for the higher profit margin demo, with the rest of the volume being made up of sales from people who want the movie on Blu-Ray for the new footage.
I appreciate the link love and I'm a big fan of the site as well.
Data tethering is a go on Palm Pre {Engadget Mobile}
Feb 11th 2009 10:29PM It's been possible to add PAM on top of Simply Everything for awhile now. You can even add unlimited international CDMA data roaming for $40 a month with included domestic access.
This isn't that big of a deal.
Palm's Treo Pro now on sale at Sprint for $249.99 {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 22nd 2009 1:13PM The device is supposed to launch this Sunday.
LG Wine now available on US Cellular for $29.95 on contract {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 21st 2009 1:10AM Heads up, the read link points to Hyundai entering mobile phone manufacturing and not the US Cellular LG Wine page.
Mobile market grinding to a halt in first half, year uncertain overall; Nokia could win {Engadget Mobile}
Jan 5th 2009 2:25PM Just thought I'd let you know that you have a typo in the headline, Chris. Other than that, nice job on the AT&T network write up.
A closer look at Japan's latest handsets {Engadget Mobile}
Dec 3rd 2008 11:59AM @Jamar: Are you sure about SE Japan ending dedicated Japanese R&D? I've got some friends that work in the Japanese branch that haven't said anything about SE consolidating R&D operations.
One of the major reasons SE ended American CDMA R&D was because of the idea that Japan would serve as the incubator for their ideas, and they saw no profit potential in the US (thanks in part to CDMA carriers rejecting the T608). They didn't want to overshadow their high-end GSM models with much higher spec CDMA models that had 3G, high resolution displays, and multiple megapixel cameras years before the GSM side did.
A closer look at Japan's latest handsets {Engadget Mobile}
Dec 1st 2008 3:12PM The Japanese value R&D to a fault, which is why Sony Ericsson uses its CDMA division in Japan as a test bed for future designs and feature sets. It would be impossible for a Japanese cellphone to sell here without a carrier subsidy in the 70-95% range simply due to the cost of engineering. As an example the retail cost of a W44S before contract was ~$750.
It's also important to emphasize that the Japanese manufacturers intentionally sabotage a particular feature for each carrier in order to maintain increasingly shorter and more expensive production cycles that only reinforce the constant R&D spending cycle that leads to a false appearance of innovation.
I'll leave the DRM discussion for another time as that is a discussion unto itself.
Japanese anime studio Production Reed opens Blu-ray doors {Engadget HD}
Nov 14th 2008 11:31PM You guys also got the studio information wrong.
Production Reed is an old studio which was folded into Sunrise back in the 70's, and since Sunrise is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bandai Visual Japan, the above titles are being reissued on Blu-Ray for the enthusiast collector, which explains the high price for the first boxsets.
Blu-Ray adoption in Japan is also grater by a factor of four compared to the US since the major anime production houses get a break on fees for Blu-Ray production in order to spur sales to collectors.
Joyswag: Gears of War 2 Limited Edition + 120GB Zune + bag + hoodie + MORE {Joystiq}
Nov 12th 2008 11:57PM Do want Zune to go with my Gamestop swag and new laptop.
Fanswag: Win Gears of War 2 and a pile of swag! {Joystiq Xbox}
Nov 7th 2008 3:20PM I'd love to see some sort of concussion-type energy weapon that combines the longshot with the torquebow.
Yeah it'd tear your arm off, but that's the price of development.
