damndl0ser said:
KichiVerde said:
Mr Puggsly said:
KichiVerde said:
Its sad. The japanese have no love for the 360. But it's MS' fault. They totally botched the launch. RROD and the failed launch release of DEAD or Alive sunk the 360 before it ever had a chance to go anywhere. Kinect wont do a thing for the 360 in Japan unless it blows up huge with big time support from all the major developers. And even then 360 will never overtake the PS3 or Wii in weekly sales.
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It totally has love in Japan. It has sold almost 1.4 million consoles there! That's almost bigger than the world wide sales of 32X and Virtual Boy combined!!!
Surpassing the Wii and PS3 in weekly sales isn't gonna happen. But Kinect will boost sales and they'll continue to have steady growth.
I still think Japan is not a very important region. Their attach rates are abysmal. According to this site, the PS3 has sold 138 million units of software in NA. But only 23 million in Japan.
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Sorry man, but the 360 does not have love in Japan. 1.4 million units is dismal when compared to how it sells overseas, and in comparison to the competition. If anything you could say Japan has a mildly, luke warm, interest in the 360.
It really is sad. The 360 deserves better.
I used to think it was the brand name. Japanese are reluctant to embrace a foreign product because they dont know or are not trusting of the name. But then the Apple Ipod, Iphone and Ipad came out which pretty much shot that theory to hell. i-macs still sell like crap though.
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Can you name anything else that is "American" that sells well in Japan? I don't think I can. So yes, they are xenophobes when it comes to foreign companies. Even though "Japanese" companies have their products made in China just like the rest of us.
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Yes I can name plenty of American of western stuff that has caught on. McDonalds, Coca Cola, KFC, Nike, Adidas, Puma, Hollywood movies, Care Bears, Elmo and on and on.
What I should have said was foreign brand name electronics. In that case Apple does seem to be the rare exception. But man does Apple know what they were doing. Personally, I think Steve Jobs is a big headed prick, but between Pixar and i-pods the man gives people what they want.
