Despite all the X1 Improvements, geographical bias will be its biggest problem.

[bananaking21]

Bluray drive - welcome to 2006 MS

Standard harddrive with external HD support  - welcome to 2006 MS

Improved gamepad (D-pad and trigger) - yet it still isnt the best or near the best

No MS points - Pretty much every gaming online store has been doing this since... well.... forever

Live Gold Free Games - just on xbox 360, just for the end of the year

Dedicated servers  - this one is a cool feature, ill give you that.

Region free - welcome to 2006 MS

Smart Match > Truskill matchmaking - agin another cool feature

More reliable - how do we know this? this is no data what so ever about this since the console isnt out

Quiet

Improved 1st party Studio support with increased 3rd party deals - third party deals never last long, just ask MS with their experience with the 360. the dev will make a game exclusive, then after a while port it to other consoles/pc. then their next game will be multiplate. so really, at the start of the gen sure, the X1 will get 3rd party deals, though they will vanish as they move on into the gen. as long as microsoft keeps money hatting devs into exlusives/times exlusives their support for their console will never be as strong Sony or Nintendo do, because when those 3rd party devs move on who will fill the hole they left? just look at the list of exlusives for the 360 the past 2 years and you will see for yourself. 

so really, why would japan be interested in a console that gives them stuff they already had for years? is japan baised towards PS and nintendo yes. but dont go along saying USA is baised towards xbox either