UnluckyOne
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Japan awards the 360?
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Oct 13, 2006 09:57
It' s not for what you think, but interesting (and a little funny) none the less. Kotaku
The Xbox 360 nabbed a Good Design 2006 award (yeah, it was released in 2005, so what?). The console was designed by Astro Studio and hot Japanese designer Chiaki Murata and is a tremendous step up from that awful black doormat Microsoft released a few years back. The award was given by Japan' s " Good Design Council," started back in 1957 and has the sole purpose to find " excellent design products, which encourage the contribution to the quality of life and industrial field via power of design." Okay.
The criteria for winners were three basic questions:
* 1. Is it a good design?
* 2. Is it a superior design?
* 3. Is it a design that breaks new ground for the future?
So Japan may hate the Xbox 360, but that doesn' t mean it hates the Xbox 360. It obviously likes the way the machine looks. On store shelves, for example.
I wonder how much that bribe cost?  j/k At least it' ll shut those people up who like to say that because the 360 is " American/Western made" that sales are poor (I hear this argument everywhere I go). You can have the greatest designed console in the world and still have it fail if there' s no reason to buy it.
< Message edited by UnluckyOne -- 14 Oct 06 1:30:18 >
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