I was hoping to see the list of 25 million sellers, but I had to look it up for myself:
http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=&console=X360&publisher=&sort=Total
GRAW is listed twice:
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=5890
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=6501
So that's 1.98 million for GRAW, not 1.34 million, and there are only 24 million sellers, not 25. Someone inform ioi.
So the 24 million sellers have sold a total of 40.4 million, a 1,683,000 average.
Only 800,000 of that 40.4 million was in Japan. Obviously Microsoft shouldn't abandon Japan, but they should probably find better ways to spend their money than on expensive games for the Japanese market.
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