^Why would it not?

Yes the Military makes a very small dent in the Japanese market, but seeing that the 360 only has 510000 sold it could be as much as 10%, I also beleive that a lot of the 360's sold in Japan are American Citizens living there or going to school. I personally know of 3 people who went to study over there(Computer Engineering Majors and Japanese majors)

Like I said, it counts because the troops simply go to a Japanese store and buy a 360 off the shelf.

Like I said, it counts because the troops simply go to a Japanese store and buy a 360 off the shelf.

One of my friends is a marine. I may have to ask him about this when I see him. He'd be able to tell me if the PX stocked American 360's or not. I just don't see the PX stocking Japanese 360s. As soon as the soldier came home, it would be useless to him.

Personally I have always felt that the Japanease are so uninterested in the 360 , that the majority of sales are to people with American ties. Students, businessmen, military, etc. Other people with some American relation or american obsession pick up the system for that reason.

This is evident to me because no matter how juicy the games get, it never hits mass appeal.

I think tokilamockingbrd has a point here.

^dark r

I know that they would have american 360's, but I do believe that sales in a PX that is in Japan would be track as a Japanese sale. The only way that it would be tracked as an American sale is if it was imported from america(they ordered it of Ebgames.com or something)

I've always wondered about the Halo 3 sales, because that game was not region locked. I bet it was over 50% US people in Japan that bought it.

dschumm - if the X360 only sold to Americans living in Japan, why are the #1 games there for the X360 games like Dead or Alive 4, Blue Dragon, Ridge Racer, and Ace Combat 6?

Why did Blue Dragon sell more in Japan than in the US (thus far) if only Americans bought the system(s)?

Wouldn't there be an inordinately large population of Japanese X360 buying more games like Halo, GRAW, Call of Duty, and such? GRAW, COD, RSV, and the like, all million sellers here, have sold under 25,000 there on the X360.

Yet they've sold 2m+ copies here.

Very, very, few of the top X360 games are western - Only Halo 3 is in the X360's Japanese top 10 (save maybe Gears of War).

^ I did not say all owners are non-japanese, I am just saying non-japanese gamers are inflating the sales a bit

@ Tokillamockingbird

If I recall correctly from when my father was in the Air Force, the bases are treated more as American soil than as native soil. Essentially, they are little islands of the United States all over the world.

Seriously though, they would be American sales because the bases are just an extension of the American market (APO and FPO addresses, still use NTSC televisions for Armed Forces Networks, etc.).

Mike from Morgantown

PS -- TKaMB's logic would also apply in Europe or anywhere else there are American bases. And most of that is PAL land. So it would be a very different console.

PPS -- What probably happens is undertracking of base-based purchases.