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Cracking the Myth – A Tale of Two SKUs

It’s been a while since the last Cracking the Myth column, so it’s due time for me to get something else off my chest – the two Xbox 360 SKUs available at launch. I don’t know if we can call it debate, since the argument has been largely one-sided coming from the mouthpieces of the [...]

Cracking the Myth – Mario 128

Mario 128 Mario 128 debuted at E3 2000 to much fanfare. After all, Super Mario 64 was a huge system seller for the N64 and a ground-breaking 3D platformer, long considered one of the best, if not the best, platformer ever created. Since that infamous day on September 29, 1996, a day long remembered for [...]

Cracking the Myth – It’s not the size of the Xbox…

The Japanese Xbox Market It is no secret the Xbox is lagging in the Japanese market. And that’s putting it kindly. There are all sorts of thoughts behind this poor performance. One is that the Xbox catalog is heavy with first person shooter titles, a genre not especially strong in the land of the rising [...]