Here's the results of a survey taken in Japan re: games and such. I'm not terribly surprised by the results. Gasp. RPG's are popular? Action games aren't? The Xbox has tanked? Gasp...

"According to complete CESA statistics, ownership of Microsoft's game machine ranked lower than five consoles that aren't even in production. Each of the following systems are owned by a portion of respondents numbering greater than 10 percent: Super NES, GameBoy Color, N64, Dreamcast, and Saturn."

And the Japanese don't seem terribly interested in even trying out non-Nippon software.

"Figures like these make Japan's game market look like a tough nut to crack for overseas software developers. The statistics for ownership of overseas games are even more discouraging: The percentage of respondents currently own non-Japanese software? Just over 1 percent. And only 4 percent expressed interest in buying such software in the future."