Xbox in Japan: 477k
Xbox360 in Japan: 1.15 million
So this worked pretty well for MS.
And what the hell did the author expect? Every "Japan exclsusive game" (what is this btw?) he mentioned has an attach-rate of a little less than 20%.. what a failure...
Just to show you how impressive this is, regarding the relations: Gears of War 2, a very successful game, has an attach rate of 16.9 % in the west. Star Ocean 4 has an attach rate of 18.1% in Japan. So for Japan X360 users, Star Ocean was bigger than Gears of War 2 for us western gamers.
You really have to see things in perspective.
Imagine not having GamePass on your console...







