Aha! The American flag won't help sell the system at all!

lmao i laugh when sony puts up a huge huge thing of playstation there

@ Words of Wisdom

L-O-FRICKIN-L

maybe now they can sell more than 520,000 systems over 2 years in japan.

doesn't Xbox basically mean "death box" or "bad box" or something like that in japan? If so, LOL @ "death box... Jump In!"

Why? Are Japanese people hard to see with the naked eye? If not, I don't see how that makes much sense.

Microsoft just can't win in the Japanese market, but they've made other strides in the East -- notably that Eastern developers are now finding the Xbox to be attractive to develop for due to their strong western sales.

It will take time for Microsoft in Japan... The Japanese culture does not adopt foreign products quickly (Especially electronics)...

They are slowly and continually increasing their average monthly sales over time in Japan... Nothing really great yet, but they will get there... Definately not this gen... Maybe next... Definately the following generation after that...

Japan has a very unique culture and that culture strongly prefers Japanese much like in the 60's and 70's with the patriotic push to continue to buy North American made vehicles. Eventually, the Japanese won because they committed to making a better product and consumers finally gave up defending domestic vehicles...

At least they're trying and we're getting closer ties to Japanese developers from it.  Compare the number of JRPGs on the 360 to the Xbox 1 for example.