Why Did Xbox 360 Fail in Japan?

[ShadowSoldier]

Deyon said:

Found this on another site. I'm posting it because it has some very good points and reasons to why Xbox360 failed in japan.

Issue of trust due to Microsoft's lack of and how fast it stopped support for Japan on the original Xbox;
Failure rate, RROD added to the untrustworthiness of the already bad Xbox brand;
360 was also known for scratching up disks and bad support;
Having to constantly pay for online for something that is free on PS3, yet support on content is lacking compared to the west;
Constantly paying for online does not suit the majority of the gaming audience in Japan ie students;
Having to over pay for expensive proprietary add-ons like harddrives and HD-DVD drive;
Lack of games of interest;
A few RPG's were good but the support soon stopped just like the original Xbox, as predicted;
Bonus of Blu-ray and future proofing;
All the exclusives eventually went to PS3 and had more content;
Kinect doesn't work in 90% of Japanese homes; XXXX
Don't blame this on patriotism at a country full of iphones and foreign products, you simply made a worse product XXX

IGN can suck my left nut

This makes quite a bit of sense...