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The Christian Science Monitor has a good piece up on the 360 in Japan. It covers some familiar territory, but fleshes out the situation nicely, including this nugget:
Indeed, Microsoft has produced games geared toward Americans, such as the WWII combat simulator Call of Duty II, currently the bestselling Xbox 360 game in the US."It caters to a Western audience," says Ben Hourigan, a PhD candidate at Australia's University of Melbourne who is in Japan researching the political aspects of role-playing video games. "The countries that were once the allied powers [such as the US] have a very polarized view of WWII ... 'we were the good guys, they were the bad guys' kind of thing. And that comes out in their video games."
Food for thought. Discuss.
Full Story Here [CS Monitor]
