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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shard O'Glase" data-source="post: 536483" data-attributes="member: 1134">I actualy meant the former in the at release they better have both or at least the smaller controller.  I didn't know the small controler was standard now though I knew it shipped to Japan that way.And why for timing.  Because while some people are gameing freaks like me and just buy all the sytems that are easily avialable to them, many others buy just one.  A jump on the competition is a big thing in console wars because 1. people are impatient and 2(and more importantly)# of games a system has is also very important.  If you let some one launch there system in advance they will have more games and that frequently determins which system people will buy.  X-Box would be wise in this time frame to also work on landing some games company contracts with the comapanies that sell the most games in Japan, there Japan launch should likely have a decent number of games which will never be seen here in america where the assumption would be for that type of game that it would fail.And even with Live I don't think there will be a huge X-Box buying spree in Japan.  It might happen but I think 2 things will stop it. 1 both X-Box and PS2 have been announcing the next gen systems enough that I can see people looking to PS3 and X-Box2 before they pick up another current gen console, and 2 I'm surprised at how much Sony is flubbing the online thing up to now, I just can't see it continuing for much longer if the X-Box live thing takes off at all, there just too savy for that.</blockquote>

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