Despite the PS2's dominance in the Land of the Rising Sun, developers and retailers in Japan have had plenty of positive things to say about the Gamecube. Here's a few of the quotes from the developers and retailers:

''It's best when two or three console makers co-exist,'' said Keiji Tanaka, a managing director at Namco Ltd., the company behind Pac-Man. ''GameCube and (Microsoft's) Xbox can compete against PlayStation 2 and expand the video-game market.'

''We received many orders for video-game software for the newly launched console,'' said Jiro Sakaguchi, director of Tose Co., a Kyoto-based maker of versions of popular game software for other companies. As a result ''earnings for the fiscal year to August may exceed our initial forecast.''

''The Nintendo Gamecube is more developer-friendly than the PlayStation 2,'' said Yoichi Wada, president of Square Co., developer of the 'Final Fantasy' series of PlayStation games.

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