vfguy on 02 April 2013
"many stores in Japan carry neither the console or games for the console today in 2013"
This is patently not true. The number of stores that do not carry any 360 games is miniscule.
BluRay is not a major factor in Japan. Even today, in 2013, the market share of bluray is much smaller than it has been in the US.
The general feel of the console and its games is more Western than the PS3 or Wii. Of course, the entirety of the games market is shifting to a more Western flavor, and even the PS4 feels like a more Western proposition than any other Japanese console, so we'll see what happens next gen.
