Hollywood movies are pretty popular in Japan as well, so is Disney and even Marvel comics. It seems to be western games specifically they have a problem with, I believe that some people from Square-enix recently mentioned there has been a long standing stigma about western games dating back to the NES games where western games were of poor quality compared  to Japanese games, and that is so ingrained that the slang term for western games basically means bad game, I think this has carried over to the 360. It's not really that they hate western brands totally, but they do prefer their own brands, but not to the point where western brands aren't popular.

Haha, unfalsifiable like I said. I could just keep listing them and you'd still call them "exceptions to the rule".

American cigarette brands, Disney, Warhammer, Magic: the Gathering, Star Wars.

Obviously Japanese are soo nationalistic that they won't buy an XBox but that ends as soon as they want to watch a Disney movie or smoke an American cigarette.

You haven't explained ANYTHING. You made a statement that had nothing to do with my argument. This isn't a "myth". Japanese people support Japanese products more so than another country's. This isn't rocket science, maybe you've been under a rock(?)

Let's save time.  The Japanese simply love many exports from both US and Europe and they love many aspects of our culture, films, music, etc.  All the while retaining their own local culture.

The 360 is the exception, not the other way round.  They just don't like the bulk of the titles on it, I suspect the idea of paying for Live simply doesn't work well in the region and for various historic reasons the Xbox brand is simply poor in the region overall.

You are going to get nowhere arguing the Japanese don't like or invest in external products/culture because they absolutely do, sometimes to a fairly crazy degree.

But, locally, no matter how hard it is for you to accept it, the 360 and it's titles, the Xbox brand itself and most popular western genres just ain't that attractive and there's nothing to say they have to like it so far as I can see.

You might as well argue we should all like JRPGs and Sushi and stop playing online FPS.

For the record I do like Sushi but am ambivalent to JRPGs but do enjoy online FPS, but mainly on a PC.

Ah variety.

Such denial...

Stick to one liners...it works for you when you have no valid argument.

Several posters in this thread have already proven you wrong by citing several American products that are successful in Japan.  But simply put, "Such denial..."  You're just going to do it again regardless of reasoning.  If you are not going to believe that Japanese do support American products because it's what they want, then what's the pont to trying to reason with you?

The DS is dominating as usual

Hrm maybe Japanese people don't like what the 360 offers them over the PS3 in terms of exclusives which is mainly a few failing JRPGs, shooters, Fable and Alan Wake.  I'm not saying the 360 doesn't have exclusives, but maybe those exclusives don't appeal to the Japanese gamer, just maybe?

The PS3 exclusives of FF13 (in Japan), Yakuza series, and Demon Souls may fare better with that audience.  Throw in the blu ray thing (might not be a big deal to them) and the DVR add-on (which seems to be selling pretty well) and the only thing that the 360 has over the PS3 to the Japanese gamer are a few exclusives that they don't care too much about, XBL and entry level price.

Contrast that to USA where the exclusives do matter more (Netflix exclusivity for a while, Halo, Gears, Fable) and PS3 add-ons like the DVR don't exist and you have a much more level playing field.

I will admit that nationalism might come in to play, all other things equal between the two systems but the two systems are NOT equal in anyone's eyes and thus I don't think nationalism would come into play much.

Nicely  put, and if only certain people would realize that FPS and online isn't popular everywhere, nor that all features a console might offer in one country are available everywhere, and that it is perfectly plausible (without any nationalistic bias) that which console seems to have the best library/feature set really can vary by region.