Sometimes we honestly do wonder if we just need to nuke Japan again to reset whatever psychological mutation took root after 1945, giving birth to a nationwide fetish for used underpants vending machines and shoe mirrors. Because let's face it: something's wrong with the Japanese. People's Exhibit A... after last week's E3, this is what the Japanese walked away most impressed with, according to Famitsu:

1. Impressions of the PS3 controller 2. Final Fantasy XIII information 3. PS3 price and release date 4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Snake playable announcment 5. PS3 menu & interface 6. PS3 online service 7. PS3 game pics 8. Polymorphic content surrounding FFXIII 9. Dragon Quest Swords 10. Square-Enix game pics

Notice that the only thing on that list not relating to the PS3 is Super Smash Bros.... and that's only you can play a PS3 character in it! God, Japan — how could you, citizens of video game Shangri-La, walk away from Sony's press conference being, at best, anything other than merely whelmed? It really doesn't take much more than another bobble-headed adventure through the Final Fantasy cliche to get you to drop 6 bills, does it?

Famitsu Post E3 Poll Reveals Interests Lie In Sony, FFXIII [1UP]

(Edit: I've made a lot of people angry here. Re-reading it, I realize the tone of this comes across as racist. This is my mistake and I completely apologize. I simply wasn't thinking. Because one of our editors lives in Japan, because we report constantly and with great fondness on Japanese culture, because our site name itself comes from a Japanese word — I thought it would be obvious that my tongue was planted firmly in cheek. Obviously, this wasn't the case - even if it was, perhaps some things shouldn't be joked about - and I'm sorry to have offended our readers. Lesson learned: you won't see anything like this in the future. - Florian Eckhardt)