As far as MS is concerned, Japan is more successful than last time. So, they could argue that the extra effort they put into acquiring Japan RPG and other types of games has helped.
As an overall picture though, no, xbox in Japan is a dismal failure. They probably have 0 profits in Japanese versions.
But, NA makes up for it.
The 360 is doing very poorly in Japan considering the efforts in its promotion that Microsoft has put there. I don't see why they don't give up in Japan and focus on the other territories because they have been behind in Europe for a while and are third place in North America right now. Something needs to be done very soon, and if 360 were to be competitive in the Japanese market, it would have been already.
optimistic view=success
realistic view=failure
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| damkira said: The 360 is doing very poorly in Japan considering the efforts in its promotion that Microsoft has put there. I don't see why they don't give up in Japan and focus on the other territories because they have been behind in Europe for a while and are third place in North America right now. Something needs to be done very soon, and if 360 were to be competitive in the Japanese market, it would have been already.
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I can tell you why they don't give up on Japan. It would be a stupid decision. Even if you are faltering in a market you never concede it to your competitor. Sometimes a company does things to hurt their competitors. If the exclusives and time exclusives that were hitting the 360 hit the PS3 instead, I can guarantee you that the PS3 would be doing better in Japan than it is now. Not only that when you concede a market, you competitors don't have to spend money defending that market. It gives them more capital to focus on the markets that you are succeeding in.
It's doing pretty bad in Japan by almost any scale it's looked.
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i don't really care if t sells bad over there.. its not like i'm a professional that works for microsoft...
It was the only HD console for an entire year. All of the hardcore graphics tarts went and bought one before the PS3. Now the PS3 is out the 360 is doing worse.
End of 2009 Predictions (Set, January 1st 2009)
Wii- 72 million 3rd Year Peak, better slate of releases
360- 37 million Should trend down slightly after 3rd year peak
PS3- 29 million Sales should pick up next year, 3rd year peak and price cut
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Yes. It will probably take 5 years to get there though, so as long as MS don't replace the 360 before then it should make it. |
Very off topic now but our predictions for 2008 consoles sales a extremely similar to each other :)
Predictions for December 31st 2008:
Wii 38,000,000
DS 84,500,000
PS3 17,000,000
PSP 41,000,000
X360 23,000,000
| Ari_Gold said: i don't really care if t sells bad over there.. its not like i'm a professional that works for microsoft... |
The 360 is doing better you slant eye bastard.
PREDICTIONS:
360 will outsell PS3 YTD for 2008. (CHECK!)
360 will have the best showing at E3 & TGS in 2009
2009 will be another year for the 360 over PS3
End OF 2009 SALES :: 360 - 40M; PS3 - 30M; Wii - 70M
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