flame_elchemist,
You're probably correct.
Then again, I thought you could play games with her.
It reminds me of the movie "Her" with  Scarlett Johansson, as the female companion.

*vomits profusely*
just get a blow up doll, they're cheaper and don't make you look like quite the sad pathetic looser you are ... at least not quite.
You know, or you could Always use your right hand and bring out those voices in your head.
I mean everyone who buys one of these Projects should be sent to a mental correctional focility, they obviously must be suffering from some grand fucking dilusions if this robotic ... thing can substitute a girlfriend.
That, or they're simply sociopathic, or they want to shock people.
Definitely not a "girlfriend" I'd approve of if my son came home with her ... whenever I do get a son, that is.
I'd go after her with a 12 inch barrel or whatever fansy blowing-up-toys the americans use, then get a 20 year old, way too late abbortion for my son and break all Contact with him.
Seriously ...

Edit:
oh of fucking corse she likes anime, this is Japan we're talking about after all.
Did the developer say anything about her being able to make your fried eggs? Because in that case, she might be fun to buy ... urm I mean it might be fun to buy just as an expensive kitchen assistant, wow at first I typed assassin there...

Soooo, Phil, are you interested in getting one of these?

sooo ... are there any robots that'll actually make your coffee / Cook your eggs etc? Because now, that might  be something Worth investigating.
Speaking of food it's food time here, sooo ... bah crazy japanese, Always the japanese.

Sounds pretty interesting. I won't get it, but I could see a lot of people find it useful.
@LordLundin: May I ask you to watch your fucking language just a bit? Just because you don't need such a robot doesn't mean others are totally messed up because they would find the robot useful, also as a girlfriend. There are people out their who have mental issues, who simply can't have a girlfriend, or people who simply would find it safe to have such a robot rather than a normal human all the day and night. Reading your post just tells me that you properly find it difficult to understand other peoples needs, so I won't spent more time to write examples on who might need such a robot.

Moderation!

First, I am moving this topic since strictly speaking new releases room is for newly released games. I'm not sure whether you can play actual games with this,  but either way it's not available yet outside Japan, and even there I imagine it's fairly experimental as yet.

@Lord Lundin, please keep a watch on the attitude there, your dipping into being offensive. Discussion of the uses for this device and the psychology etc behind those who might want one is fine, but beware of the tone since your really getting rather offensive towards people who might have problems with finding a girlfriend.

as to my own thoughts, to be honest this sounds more a gymmic than anything serious, and I don't imagine someone who is actually looking for female companionship would find this helps much in reality.
There is a huge culture in japan of maid fantasies, which it sounds like this buys  into, likewise there is a lot of romantic fiction and indeed more extreme Hentai based around the virtual personalities of girls where people don't just ogle women but actually discuss their personalities and lives, likes and dislikes etc, (there is a very sad arc in the anime welcome to the Nhk about an agoraphobic boy who gets into this, and how he gets wrapped up with the personalities of virtual girls is just plane sad, then again nobody said Nhk was a pleasant series)..

Whether something like this program would actually provide more than just a curiosity or at most the odd thrill for someone I severely doubt, after all if someone is really! in serious need of a girlfriend, some siri like responses really won't mean much, as there is still a very wide devide between even what a computerized server can provide and interacting with a real person,as the startrek style holodeck artificial companions indistiguishable from reality are stil a loooong way off.
I don't even mean physical love or affection here , I just mean the ways people think and interact, for example my wife and I read together quite often and discuss books, likewise she reads my book reviews, we have raging arguements about George R R Martin etc, she's my best friend, and there is no way in hell something like Siri could substitute for that.

Oh and for the record I like my eggs scrambled, and it's me that does the cooking .

My wife doesn't do half of this stuff.  she doesn't call me master, doesn't make fried eggs, doesn't generally control household appliances beyond those she feels comfortable with, doesn't wear skirts, doesn't speak a ton of Japanese, and I vaguely suspect given what I have learned within the past 2 years, is going to end up costing me more than $2,526 in the longrun.  There are two little matters I take issue with concerning this device, however, and I'm fairly certain the company can't provide a solution for them.  Firstly, she's not human.  Lastly, she's not my wife! :d

@Afrim, agreed, alienation is one of the most extreme problems in society these days, with people mattering less and less and being more converted into statistics, and collective assumptions, (what I often refer to as "the collective), having actually more, rather than less power due to mass communications.
@Turtlepower, One thing I will say is that in Japan the general attitude towards maid fantasies is a little different, following the geisha traditionn, and much of it is far more harmless than say imagining a westerner wanting a woman to call him master would be.
Not that there aren't dodgy people in Japan of course, but there's also a lot of rather playful, quite innocent stuff as well that simply plays on mild traditions and stories, and is no more harmful than girls over here wanting to be princesses and play at being rescued.

Of course how dodgy vs playful the virtual companion is I don't know, likewise if it actually is! being marketed to people who either have genuine problems finding romantic partners and look for this as a substitute, or people who want to play out power or domination fantasies then it might not be psychologically not a good thing.

Then again, this won't be the first company in the world that tries to prophet from people's psychological problems .

@Slender, As everyone has said, I don't think anyone would assume such a machine could! replace real romantic interactions.
What is more worrying are those people who the company is potentially marketing too who might think it could, since someone would have to be in a pretty desperate position if they were able to assume that something programmed could actually take the place of a real human partner, or worse, try to make themselves believe it might in spite of themselves.

Then again as I said, such technology could just be a gimmic, no different to something like a virtual pet, something you play around with as a curiosity but are quite aware is completely unreal.
Indeed I find it interesting that people have such adverse reactions to this, and not to something like those virtual baby care programs, since there is just as much potential psychological harm in using those for someone who is desperate to have children.

Well, that technology highlighted on this topic doesn't even come anywhere close to pets. Pets can be so lovely that they at times can surpass the love and loyalty of humans. And by humans I mean we, those who have reason and logic.
During these 7 months I have had a dog, I have been quite amazed at how much love can they show towards their owners. For example, one day, while our dog went out of our courtyard to the street, he became a little dirty. I was trying to get him back to my house, and my mum shouted at me not to touch him. The dog, seeing her reaction towards me, growled at my mum. Also, during Monday to Friday, all of my family members need to go outside, somebody to work, anybody to school, and we need to keep him in a place where he is not able to play a lot. But when we release him, he will do anything and everything to thank you for what you did to him by tickling, licking, or jumping onto your feet. And this is amusing.

@Turtlepower, I suspect the "in a box" comment wasn't a reflection of seeing a woman inside a glass cage, it's just a reflection of the unit itself, since manifestly this doesn't actually come with a representation of a woman kept in a box, it's probably just a small box shaped device with a video display.
As with anything though, it depends upon how it's used and who uses it, though whether the potential user is some slimebag who sees it as a domination game, or some lonely man who has fallen fowl of society's ridiculously stupid practices due to the rigmorole of dating and relationships, conventions that can be truly agonising or a lot of shy men I don't know.

Either way, the stupid company wants their money and if that means propheting from loneliness, sadism or just plane desire for novelty they'll do it.

Btw, Yes, society is hateful!

@Afrim, very much agree about dogs. I love my big black furry thing as my wife calls reever.
One sad thing though you did remind us of is that my wife's guide dog died this christmas, of sudden undiscovered canser, not nice.
This is actually wy I've never been interested in virtual animal care games like firry paws, good though the design in firry paws is, since why the heck would I want a virtual dog when I have the real thing?