"Microsoft Corp.'s Japan unit aims to double the number of game titles for the Xbox 360 console in Japan to 500 by the end of 2008, a senior official said in a recent interview with Jiji Press.

New titles may include a sequel to the blockbuster Blue Dragon, said Takashi Sensui, executive officer and chief of the home and entertainment division of Tokyo-based Microsoft Co.

The Xbox 360 has been struggling in Japan as cumulative sales have totaled about 500,000 units since it was released in December 2005. But Senui said the console can win over hard-core gamers and that reaching one million units in sales is not far."

http://www.japancorp.net/Article.Asp?Art_ID=16369

This says two things - #1 Microsoft isn't giving up on Japan and #2 it's targeting the japanese hardcore gamers.

I like the fact that they have two different strategies for NA and Japan, one targets NA casuals and the other Japan Hardcore and it makes sense since there's no way it could touch the Wii in the Japanese casual market.

good news

It's time for Microsoft to get John Cusack to stand in Japan's front yard and play In your eyes on his boom box.:)

or maybe a plain waste of time...

this.. wont effect anything.. at all... but make them lose een more money in unsold games... person who thought up this idea needs to be fired...

Next year we're expecting many sequels Blue Dragon 2 , Ninja Gaiden 2 , Dead or Alive 5 ? , Devil May Cry 4 , Idolm@ster 2 ...

* Double Post

Nintendo=Blue Ocean
Sony=Red Ocean
MS=Yellow Ocean

Please stop pissing in the ocean, Microsoft. It's actually kinda cute how hard they keep trying in Japan. It's like a retarded child who can't reach a spoon on the counter yet keeps jumping at it for hours on end.

I think x360 will be increase in japan
every year is better than the year before it ..
not surprise if it sell 600K in 2010 only

"the BLOCKBUSTER Blue dragon"

gimme a break...lol

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I admire M$ for all their effort in Japan, it's a like a dog going back to a home where it's kicked out of....