Xbox 360 sells 1.5 million in Japan

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Lostplanet22 said:

BenVTrigger said:

kowenicki said:
Which is great as the xbox didnt get anywhere near that, the 360 has manged to sell 3 times the original xbox...

BUT, its also ridiculous.

100% agree on both points.

Well still horrible though.  The xbox was just an American system that had a very few Japanese games DOA 3, Ninja Gaiden,  Dino Crisis 3 and a SMT game that was a online game and who's servers went down almost immediately...

While the X360 had the first HD jrpg (enchanted Arms) then project sylpheed, time exclusive eternal sonata, Blue Dragon, Time Exclusive Tales of vesperia, Lost Odissey, The last Renmant, FFXI online, Time Exclusive Star Ocean 4, Infinite undiscovery, Magna Carta 2 (ok that is an KRPG still), Dead Rising, and a lot of other titles...

Result:  in the same time frame it managed to sell barely more than 2 times the original xbox (X360 is longer on the market now) while the effort from MS was 20 times better... It was even in the first three years of his existence the JRPG console...

To be fair, FFXI online was released on PS2 and PC several years before it was on 360 and japanese don't care about games like Dead Rising. And in Japan there are only 3 big JRPG franchises and rest are tiny compared to them. For example, SO and Tales series were never huge series in Japan, not even on PS2. None of  SO and Tales games have ever got past 1 million copies in Japan (on PS2 they only sold aroundin 0.5 million) while FF and DQ and Pokemon sell more than 4 million copies almost every time. So, MS only secured mid-sized franchises and some new IP's which are only rarely hits. Just securing FF (which was not released in Japan) or DQ would have had more effect on sales than all games you listed combined.