As Xbox One Launches in Japan, Akihabara Gamers Really Aren’t Standing in Line

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grannamir on 04 September 2014

HAHAHAHA...
MS delusions finnally over. Time to face the cruel reality.

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WebmasterX on 04 September 2014

It is bleak. But in Japan is buying more online. And on amazon and other stores has been in the top15 for weeks in pre orders

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Aerys on 04 September 2014

Shadow1980 said:
For reference, the 360 sold only 44k its first week in Japan. I suspect the XBO will do worse than that.

It will be lucky to do half of that

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highwayuni on 04 September 2014

Let's be honest here.

Other than the one or two hardcore Xbox fans on this site, did anyone have any expectations at all for the XBO to do well in Japan?

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AZWification on 04 September 2014

Shadow1980 said:
For reference, the 360 sold only 44k its first week in Japan. I suspect the XBO will do worse than that.

Well, I certainly overpredicted the X1's first week in Japan if that's the case... I predicted 40k by the way.. :S

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etking on 04 September 2014

Why should there be a line, it's Japan and MS will loose money with the system anyway. But the worldwide release could be enough to overtake Wii-U in global weekly sales from now on.

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Nicklesbe on 04 September 2014

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Wait..why would they have cones up? Were there a bunch of pre-orders? Or is this a joke?

Think of it like visual marketing. like "if you build it, they will come" Basically people see it empty and much like on the internet where people want to be the first reply, they think they see it empty and people might want to be first in it. Or something like that. Just a theory.

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Nate4Drake on 04 September 2014

Well, one at least bought XOne...

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