Famitsu Readers, Japanese Game Shops Choose Top 10 News Items Of 2008
In a traditional year-end poll, Japanese hardcore gaming magazine Famitsu asked its readers and select retailers to rank the top gaming news stories of 2008. The results are printed as the top story in this week's issue of the magazine, and are as follows:
- The simultaneous announcement of Dragon Quest X for Wii and Dragon Quest IX's release date -- 12/10/2008
- The release of Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G and the social phenomenon it caused -- 3/27/2008
- Square Enix's announcement of three Xbox 360 RPGs (Infinite Undiscovery, The Last Remnant, and Star Ocean: The Last Hope) -- 6/10/2008
- Sony's discontinuation of the 60 and 20GB model PlayStation 3s (removal of backwards compatibility) -- 1/20/2008
- The announcement of Tales of Vesperia for Xbox 360 -- 2/22/2008
- Legal action by 54 game publishers against the importation and sale of Nintendo DS "backup" devices -- 7/29/2008
- The release of Metal Gear Solid 4 -- 6/12/2008
- The sub-?20000 price drop for Xbox 360 -- 9/1/2008
- The announcement of Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360 in America and Europe -- 7/15/2008
- The several hour wait at Tokyo Game Show to play Monster Hunter 3 tri~ -- 10/11/2008
Four other general questions were also asked of Famitsu's readers, beginning with: What publisher stood out the most this year? Hit the break for the choices for this question as well as the others.
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