You can look at it from a few points of view, thibje, and you've always been the optimist of Japan (and I've been the realist).
The X360 has underperformed this year...Badly. It's sold around 55,000 consoles YTD versus last year's cume of 100,000 in the same timeframe. Big games on the 360 this year haven't pushed hardware like they did last year, which shows that the console has reached a penetration level with current fare that shows that consumers might not be interested in buying the console en-masse for mid-tier games like Ninja Gaiden, or Idolmaster: Live4U
However, on the bright side: The 360 has bigger games coming up than ever before. A real Tales game, a Square Enix/TriAce, game in IU, and eventually Star Ocean 4 should really help hardware, as those 3 games have been unmatched in terms of 3rd party support. I think that 1, or even 2 of those games (most likely ToV and SO4) have a good shot at re-energizing 360 purchases, to some sort of decent level.
My prediction: X360 will continue to sell ~2k until boosts from ToV, and IU. ToV will push the 360 past 10k for the first time this year. The 360 will still sell well over 1m consoles in it's lifetime in Japan.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
