Like I've been saying since the beginning of this year: 50,000+ units of X360s will sell during Lost Odyssey week. That's only 15k more than Blue Dragon moved, and no game moved over 7,000/wk before Blue Dragon came out.
I don't think "critical mass" has happened in Japan. More than anything, Japanese hardcore gamers are starting to realize that the Xbox 360 has tons of old PS2 IPs, and offers a better lineup than the more costly, less attractive PS3. Because of this, I think we'll see better sales for the rest of the year vs. last year (currently 100% better than last year, trending toward 400k this year).
And best case scenario, we see X360 sales hover around 3.5k-5k at the worst points next year.
And FYI, as the charts I've made have shown: the Japanese buy X360s when decent software comes out. Every game that has sold over 50,000 units has made X360 hardware increase by various measures. However, true spikes have occured with Halo 3, Trusty Bell, AC6, Blue Dragon, DOA4 and DOAX2. Each of those games have atleast doubled X360 hardware sales.
But I think the question is how well X360 hardware sells next week: if it stays above 10k (which I doubt), it's certainly going to be a monster (atleast compared to any other Microsoft in Christmas) for the rest of the year.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
