Xbox One Japanese Launch Week: 23k Sold

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GamechaserBE said:

CGI-Quality said:

Ka-pi96 said:

That's actually alright

For you to consider that alright, you either a) had the lowest expectations to begin with or b) are in serious denial about the bleak situation there. Twenty-three thousand is horrendous, even for Xbox

Also we had plenty of threads where people reported that nobody was waiting in line for a Xbox one and that the situation was very dramatic....We even got articles with only one guy buying a Xbox one in a store so ofcourse people expect low numbers;...Check the Xbox empire thread and you will find no one who would even predict 20K FW....  

Honestly Xbox one did a lot better than I think everyone expected, I think I had the highest predicition with 40K sold first MONTH.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=189637&page=1#

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=189538&page=1#

Both those threads contain numerous (read majority) of predictions above 23k, so there is plenty of people right there that expected more.  

Honestly, I have no idea why MS chose to release the XB1 in Japan now instead of waiting until some more Japan-centric games were available. The PS4 isn't steaming away in sales over there, so it wasn't like they had to rush the launch to limit the PS4's momentum or anything. They've waited this long, another 6 months is unlikely to have hurt them, and might have allowed them to launch with some appealing games.