The creator of Parapa the Rapper says the poor sales of the PS3 in Japan is do to it's size!

Dailytech.com is reporting that the Japanese market doesn't care for large consoles and that the reason the PS3 is selling so poorly in Japan. Masaya Matsuura, the creator of Parapa the Rapper says that the the size of the original XBOX was the reason it failed in Japan:

When it comes to the Japanese market, the size of your equipment matters. One of the common complaints and cited reasons for the original Xbox’s failure is the large form factor of the console. Japanese consumers complained that the machine was too large to fit in nicely inside their homes.

According to Masaya Matsuura, designer of the original PaRappa the Rapper, the PlayStation 3 is suffering from the same problem of size. “It's too big for the Japanese,” he said GamesIndustry.biz in an interview at the Nordic Game conference.

I think the Japanese need to realize that the more powerful the consoles get the larger they will get.  Microsoft and Sony would love to make a system as small as the Wii but the smaller you make it the more expensive it wil be so unless the Japanese want $1,500 consoles they are just going to have to deal with it.