These days walking in Denden town and Akiba the buzz around MSG4 is way less than I expected... I'm sure the MediaCreate will clear this (and MSG4 will move 500.000 pieces in its first week)  but right now I don't feel the huge promotional efforts made by Konami are giving the effect expected in Japan so I wonder if, after a couple of weks from now, MSG4 will still be a system seller for PS3 or just a great game... anyway the MSG4 Famitsu cover is the best Famitsu cover in the last years!!

UPDATE: Konami cancelled the MSG4 launch event... seems that the image of Solid Snake overlooking the stabbing rampage in Akiba has touched other people than me...

During the sixities Manson never killed anyone (almost personally), the good thing in this case is the fact that we don't have an "otaku guru" telling people to kill everyone... that guru in a certain way has been Shoko Asahara. He has never been an otaku guru but, before the sarin terrorist attack, he was in synch with the otaku subculture... Now the akiba killer is just a crazy guy who choosed Akiba since on Sunday there isn't a more "media dense" area in the World. There isn't a group behind him, nor a subculture supporting his hate/killer instincts, he just wanted his 15 minutes of fames, so it's pretty impossibile to stop this kind of tragedies...

20 years have passed since Tsutomu Miyazaki. In all these years the otaku culture permeated the Japanese society (and jpop culture) so, this time, I think the "Otaku is  socially dangerous" meme will not get grip in the Japanese mediasphere almost not as before... I feel this bloody sunday is more the otaku "September 11" than anything else...

WTF: I'm on N4G with the most popular story of this weekend?!
Of course no, a user ripped my news just after I digged it...


I make this blog for fun and I actually I started it just for an article I'm writing about memetics applied to the blogosphere.
Yesterday I posted the news about Kojima complaining about the capacity of BD and I    digged it  (I got first time stamp) then...  other blog like this, this, this and some others sites took my news and repost without any credit...

But maybe it's just me and of course all these bloggers read Japanese and browse "famous" Japanese blogs like Hatimaki hunting for news... anyway the editor of   Playstation Beyond even credited the original blog for making the interview and he (like N4G site) also reposted the one year old Xbox360 18 discs box set prank)! Funny that no one understood that the Japanese title in the scan  reads clearly that  this interview comes from the Japanese magazine Weekly Famitsu that in these weeks is celebrating the 1000th issue  released (I didn't point this in the post since I tough it was pretty obvious...)!
At the end memes spread with or without proper credits! This is good!


  (image fcourtesy of http://transtechsociety.org/blog/)

In this Japanese interview Hideo Kojima complains about the Blu Ray discs. The Metal Gear Solid producer considers the Blu Ray disc too small. Seems that the complete game couldn't fit in the disc and the Konami programmers had to compress some parts to save some space. This means that we will have to download something to complete the game install?!  DIGG THIS!