Sales in Europe are 10x better than in Japan - sales in the US are 20x better than Japan.
Sales for the Wii in Japan are almost 1:1 with Europe, and less than 2:1 with the US.
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If they would have ignored Japan - they would still have sold 16.5m units worldwide. How much money would they have saved? What exclusives could they have bought with this extra cash?
If they would have *never* released the 360 in Japan - hammered their advantage in Europe/US - then gone for the mega-release with a slimline model/bundle/killer Japan software 3 years in - they could have done a lot better.
Lets face it - with approx 5% of their GLOBAL sales in Japan - I think its pretty much irrelevant to them sales-wise.
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