| FilaBrasileiro said: Microsoft is being pretty fucking dumb. They have these great JRPGs back to back to back and they don't have enough units to sell? 24k on Tales week was enough? 30k this week? C'mon MS. |
To be fair, some of this may be on the retailers end. The X360 has sold very poorly up until late June, when it started trending upwards from the normally bad numbers. Retailers aren't going to magically buy 100,000 consoles when that may entail months of product, when it could be better invested in other products (like the Wii).
Because of that, distribution networks, and retailer attitude to the X360 may not have been enough to say "hey Microsoft! We need 50,000 Xbox 360's in Japan this week!" - That would of entained more units sold than any other MONTH the X360 has had outside of holidays and launch - a tough pill for business people to swallow.
I am sure that Microsoft has been, and is working out, ways to ensure the X360 gets properly stocked in Japan. I would think that the X360 has a chance to sell 10,000-20,000 units/wk for some time IF the demand was there to sustain such sales (and time will tell if that ends up being the case).
At any rate, the sell-out status seems to not be hurting the X360: Who would of thought that the X360 would have 2 weeks where it sells more than 20,000 units within a short timespan of eachother?
Oh and finally: This is GREAT news for ToV fans. It's continuing to crawl upwards, and if the demand is there, it could hit 200,000 by the time everything is said and done. Blue Dragon may be in danger!
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
