xbox dead in japan? yes or no? reasoning plz

[jhlennon1]

Yojimbo said:

HappySqurriel said:

Yes/No ...

The XBox 360 has almost no chance of becomming a system that will ever have reasonable sales in Japan; this is (in a large part) because Microsoft really doesn't understand the Japaneese market and has failed to deliver and market a product that people in Japan want.

At the same time, the XBox 360 has outsold the original XBox and has been building a respectable userbase at a rate of about 5,000 users per week; at this rate they're likely to pass 1 Million units sold by the time they launch their next system (possibly 2 Million if they can get ports of some MAJOR Japaneese games) which is a very good userbase for a system which is ignored in the region.

2 million seems way to optimistic, PS3 maybe will hit 5m and it is selling much better.  It took 2 years for 360 to hit 500k.

 

The PS3 will sell more then 5mil after GT5 and the two Final Fantasy XIII games hit Japan.

As for the 360 in Japan... it is dead, deader then dead. No sales there from the 360 will ever be relevant no matter how much the 360 fans want it to sell. November was the worst possible thing that could have happened to the 360.