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Xbox Japan Boss Is Wasted On Japan

The best thing to come out of Microsoft's Japanese XNA awards night weren't the games themselves. Not even close. No, the best part was the arrival of Xbox Japan boss Takashi Sensui, who didn't just walk onto the stage. He didn't use steps, like mortal men. No, the dude descended in a gondola. And not just any gondola, a gondola called "THE CANDY HOUSE". Look at him wave! He's loving it. In these cold, unexciting times, when the industry's most colourful platform executives have either moved on or moved away (Allard, Kutaragi, Moore, Harrison), Sensui is the sole bastion of corporate good times. If only Microsoft had left Don "Who?" Mattrick where he was and made this guy Xbox boss.
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6:20 AM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Luke Plunkett
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dunetiger reads... at 06:25 AM on 03/03/08
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What on earth does that have to do with the Xbox? There's nothing obnoxiously green on that Candy House! BOO-URNS!
meandering_drivel at 06:27 AM on 03/03/08
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is it edible?
Silverwolf at 06:27 AM on 03/03/08
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What a candy ass freak.
Snake726 at 06:27 AM on 03/03/08
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This guy rides in style.
sUKi at 06:27 AM on 03/03/08
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@dunetiger : apples are red:

He's melting it when it decided to have the 360 power it.
baked ham at 06:28 AM on 03/03/08
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I don't get it.
Witzbold at 06:29 AM on 03/03/08
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I saw him at the TGS forgot to ask him a few questions though, since was being stupid and messing with a 360 booth instead. :x
njhardcoreguy at 06:30 AM on 03/03/08
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But then the gondola's green lights turned red and it immediately shut down.
Komrade_Kayce at 06:32 AM on 03/03/08
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I think this proves that you'd have to be legally insane to run anything Microsoft related in Japan.
Brian Ashcraft at 06:44 AM on 03/03/08
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Sensui 2008.
Let's make this happen, DAMMIT!!
cebukid(im rick james,... at 06:52 AM on 03/03/08
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I think his waving to Hansel & Gretel.
Kuro at 06:53 AM on 03/03/08
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おかしのいえ!? The Crazy House? Pure genius ^^
muu at 07:03 AM on 03/03/08
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The guy riding the panda seemed much much worse, though I guess he probably wasn't as important.

And holy shit, Kotaku's site's not fubared from the workplace for the first time in a while.

@Kuro: Candy Shack.
DaiMacculate at 07:08 AM on 03/03/08
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Hey I like it, at least MS has gone and hired some hardcore dudes, it may not mean much this generation but assuming they're in it for the long haul guys like this are gonna be there as well.

Of course MS' long term prospects bring up mixed feelings for me, especially in the wake of my 360 console failing to turn on at all last night. Combined with trying to talk to MS tech support while having laryngitis, it was a down evening. They told me to take it to "EB Games" today and make sure its not just my power brick thats screwed up...we'll see I guess :(
karmakid at 08:42 AM on 03/03/08
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wonder if he takes it out drifting....driftoooohhh
BenignMuffin at 08:42 AM on 03/03/08
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KAWAI!!!
okenny :) at 08:52 AM on 03/03/08
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And this is why, Luke, you don't make these kinds of decisions ;). BTW, the thought of the likes of Jeff Bell riding a candy-cane pony onto a press stage scares the hell out of me!
DiscipleofJamzy at 10:50 AM on 03/03/08
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I'm thinking this should be the default picture for any story about the Xbox division in Japan.
HobbaHobba at 11:25 AM on 03/03/08
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Hm... I love sweets....
Purple Dave at 12:03 PM on 03/03/08
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*coughREGGIEcough* What's that? Oh, I though we were talking about how all the interesting console execs had moved on from their jobs.
Bakeroo at 12:10 PM on 03/03/08
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I assume we mean that he's to good for the land of the rising sun, not that Japan has an intoxicating effect.
DaveKap at 12:49 PM on 03/03/08
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They see him floatin'... they hatin'...
Sailorcancer at 01:27 PM on 03/03/08
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He has an AMAZING house!
Luke Plunkett at 02:23 PM on 03/03/08
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@Purple Dave: Reggie's gone BORING. No more ass-kicking, he's all about counting money and staying on-message these days. BORING.
DaiMacculate at 02:40 PM on 03/03/08
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@Luke Plunkett: Heh just wait, I'm sure when/if Nintendo gets back into an "underdog" position he'll be back in Crazy Reggie form ;)
Spartan1308™ at 03:30 PM on 03/03/08
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@Brian Ashcraft: Yes, can we vote?

"If only Microsoft had left Don "Who?" Mattrick where he was and made this guy Xbox boss."

I was asking for this last year when Moore left. Sensui has personality and it showed in a couple of videos that were posted here back at the time of TGS. I guess they want to put their best efforts towards their worst market. Maybe he's being held back by his inability to miraculously make the Japanese buy 360s. Someone should realize that isn't his fault.
polarenvy at 04:40 PM on 03/03/08
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Fuck that, who's the guy riding on the Panda?
yeahblah at 07:37 PM on 03/03/08
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It says he's the 'senior manager' of MS's XNA Group, so Sensui's underlings are apparently as insane as him.

Good for them.
antaeusX at 07:37 AM on 03/04/08
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Sensui is kinda sexy too!