PC's in Japan: Are they needed?

[Elven6]

MSNBC has this really good article up on the future of PC's in Japan.

TOKYO - Masaya Igarashi wants $200 headphones for his new iPod Touch, and he’s torn between Nintendo Co.’s Wii and Sony’s PlayStation 3 game consoles. When he has saved up again, he plans to splurge on a digital camera or flat-screen TV.

There’s one conspicuous omission from the college student’s shopping list: a new computer.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21624720/

[JKKDARK]

Well they were always ahead with online stuff for consoles.

[JPJunkie]

Well they were always ahead with online stuff for consoles.

Thats true. Don't the actual consoles come out a year before everywhere else as well.