Microsoft has announced sales figures in Japan, Europe and the US showing a surge in sales of its Xbox 360 console. In America, Microsoft has announced that on “Black Friday” (the first shopping day after Thanksgiving, and traditionally a big sales day in the US) its Xbox 360 console outsold the Sony PS3 three-to-one.

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Happy Christmas Japanese Xbox 360 owners. But Europeans, Americans and any owners of a PS3 are apparently on Santa’s naughty list – you get nothing, not even a lump of coal. Famitsu Magazine in Japan has announced that a demo of the terrifying (and “dangerous“) African zombie action game Resident Evil 5 will be going onto Xbox Live Marketplace from December 5th.

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It’s not going on sale in India, had advertising pulled from the Washington DC metro system and Internet, run into controversy over the decision to not allow you to kill kids in the game. And now, Bethesda’s post-apocalypse role-playing action game Fallout 3 has been censored before release in Japan.

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We got pretty excited by the leaked FCC sketches back in August, and while LG and Samsung have been quenching our 8 megapixel desires ever since it’s just possible the Casio W63CA might be worth a credit crunching trip to Osaka.

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Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console has enjoyed another week outselling its rival, the Sony PS3, in Japan. For the week ending October 17, the 360 outsold the PS3 by 25 per cent (4,800 PS3s versus 6,000 Xbox 360s). But other figures released show that Microsoft has a long way to go before it challenges Sony’s overall sales figures in the region.

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Well, according to Microsoft it does. The Tokyo Game Show this weekend has been a hotbed of Microsoft employee quotables, stats releases and game announcements on how well the Xbox 360 is doing over there. Here they all are in one easily digestible package:

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Nintendo has confirmed that its newly-announced DS handheld console revamp, the DSi, will not allow you to play games bought in other regions. The DSi features a camera, SD card slot, web browser and larger screens and launches in November in Japan and, according to the rumours, Spring 2009 in Europe.

The region lock, stopping Japanese DSi consoles playing European games etc. is only for DSi-specific games (cartridges or downloaded from the new “DSi Shop”), existing DS games will still be region-free. So why should gamers be up in arms about such a limited region lock?

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Downloading is dead, long live live music. Nokia might have their swanky ‘unlimited music downloads’ but Yamaha have proper(ish) instruments on their handsets. The “Band in my Pocket” range of concept phones, revealed at CEATEC in Japan, lets you clip your choice of instrument direct to your handset and play.
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