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Cover of Famitsu Wave DVD, April 2005, featuring Reiko Hinomoto and Dixie Clemets from Rumble Roses.
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Cover of Famitsu Wave DVD, April 2005, featuring Reiko Hinomoto and Dixie Clemets from Rumble Roses.

Famitsu (ファミ通, commonly abbreviated in Japanese kana to Fami), is a Japanese video game magazine published by Enterbrain, Inc. Currently, there are five versions of Famitsu. Weekly Famitsu, Famitsu PS2, Famitsu Xbox, Famitsu Cube and Advance, and Famitsu Wave DVD.

Contents

[edit] Weekly Famitsu

Weekly Famitsu (週刊ファミ通 Shukan Famitsū?) is considered the most respected video game news magazine in Japan.[1][2] [3] Weekly Famitsu concentrates on video game reviews, as well as video game industry news. The magazine was originally called Famicom Tsuushin (ファミコン通信?). Family Computer is the name of Nintendo's eight-bit video game console in Japan (the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the Europe, the U.S. and most other western countries), and tsūshin is the Japanese word for "news". The first issue was published in 1986 (Today, Famitsu Cube and Advance concentrates on Nintendo games). Weekly Famitsu is sold every Friday with a circulation of 800,000 per issue.[citation needed]

[edit] Others

Famitsu publishes other magazines dedicated to particular consoles - Famitsu PS reports on PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable news. Famitsu DS, Famitsu Cube and Famitsu Advance report on Nintendo DS, Wii, Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance, respectively. Famitsu Xbox, the least popular, reports on Xbox and Xbox 360 news.

Famitsu Wave DVD (ファミ通 Wave DVD) is published monthly. Each magazine includes a DVD disc (NTSC Region 2) with video game footage. The magazine was originally called GameWave DVD.

At the debut of the PlayStation, PlayStation Tsushin was published, but later the magazine changed its name to Famitsu PS.

[edit] Scoring

Famitsu is known worldwide for its extremely harsh grading of current videogames.[4][5] Video games are graded in Famitsu by a panel of four video game reviewers. Each reviewer gives a score from one to ten (ten being best). The scores of the four reviewers are then added up with a possible score of forty. Famitsu reviewers have long been considered unmercifully tough, though in recent years their average review scores have generally taken an upswing. Several recent Famitsu scores have been subject to controversy, and the magazine has been accused of "selling out" to appease advertisers and the larger entities in the industry, such as with its score for Dirge of Cerberus (1up.com news link). However, it is still extremely difficult for a game to receive a perfect score of forty from Famitsu's reviewers. Famitsu Wave DVD does not grade video games.

[edit] Perfect scores

Only six games so far have received perfect scores. They are listed in chronological order:

  1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo, for Nintendo 64)
  2. Soul Calibur (Namco, for Dreamcast)
  3. Vagrant Story (Squaresoft, for PlayStation)
  4. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Nintendo, for Nintendo GameCube)
  5. Nintendogs (Nintendo, for Nintendo DS)
  6. Final Fantasy XII (Square Enix, for PlayStation 2)

Games that received a near-perfect score of 39 include:

  1. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Nintendo, for Super Famicom)
  2. Virtua Fighter 2 (Sega, for Saturn)
  3. Ridge Racer Revolution (Namco, for PlayStation)
  4. Super Mario 64 (Nintendo, for Nintendo 64)
  5. Tekken 3 (Namco, for PlayStation)
  6. Cyber Troopers Virtual On Oratorio Tangram (Sega, for Dreamcast)
  7. Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (Sony Computer Entertainment, for PlayStation 2)
  8. Final Fantasy X (Square Co., Ltd., for PlayStation 2)
  9. Resident Evil (Capcom, for Nintendo GameCube)
  10. Dragon Quest VIII (Square Enix, for PlayStation 2)
  11. Gran Turismo 4 (Sony Computer Entertainment, for PlayStation 2)
  12. Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (Konami, for PlayStation 2)
  13. Kingdom Hearts II (Square Enix and Buena Vista Games, for PlayStation 2)
  14. Dead or Alive 4 (Tecmo, for Xbox 360)
  15. Ōkami (Capcom, for PlayStation 2)

[edit] All Time Top 100 by the readers

In March of 2006 Japanese Famitsu magazine readers voted on their 100 all-time favorite games. (Full list). The top ten games picked by fans were:

  1. Final Fantasy X (2001)
  2. Final Fantasy VII (1997)
  3. Dragon Quest III (1988)
  4. Dragon Quest VIII (2004)
  5. Machi (1998)
  6. Final Fantasy IV (1991)
  7. Tactics Ogre (1995)
  8. Final Fantasy III (1990)
  9. Dragon Quest VII (2000)
  10. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Thorsen, Tor (2006-03-08). FFXII gets perfect score from Famitsu. GameSpot. Retrieved on 2006-06-09.
  2. ^ Kalpaxidis, Steve (2005-07-01). PS3 To Come Without Bundled HDD?. Advanced Media Network. Retrieved on 2006-06-09.
  3. ^ Quinn, Rodney (2006-03-09). Final Fantasy XII scores perfect 40/40 in Famitsu reviews. Ars Technica. Retrieved on 2006-06-09.
  4. ^ Carless, Simon (1999-08-06). Litigation Time. Gamasutra. Retrieved on 2006-06-09.
  5. ^ Staff, GamePro (2006-03-08). Final Fantasy XII Earns Perfect Score From Famitsu. GamePro. Retrieved on 2006-06-09.

[edit] External links

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