CGI-Quality said:
Ka-pi96 said:
CGI-Quality said:
For you to consider that alright, you either a) had the lowest expectations to begin with or b) are in serious denial about the bleak situation there. Twenty-three thousand is horrendous, even for Xbox.
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It's Xbox in Japan. After the Tsutaya charts came out with no Xbox games on them people were saying figures like 4 or 5k. It isn't really good, but it could be so much worse.
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As I said, even for Xbox, it's bad. Yes, the situation doesn't look good for any home console there (right now), but the 360 nearly trippled it (and in less time) and I won't even bring up the original Xbox. By comparison, the PS4 had the third highest console launch there (coming off of Sony's worst generation) and the WiiU wasn't too far behind the Wii.
I'm generally not so pessimistic, but there's just no way to spin it. Out of the gate, it is horrendous.
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When talking sales theres always a context though, compared to expectations, both from us and MS, its really not that bad. What were you expecting? For a japanese hardware launch 20k is obviously terrible but so has all of their other launches (120k, 60k)... in which case gauging it by general japan hardware standards is pointless, because xbox's have ever only had bad launches, so that goes without saying.
If you're looking at the actual context of Xbox, this number is still on the lower side but not too distant from expectations or targets. The same same way a western game enters the japanese charts in the top 10 and we say "oh thats impressive" when infact it only sold 16k. We're obviously not talking in context of general Japanese software sales.
The orginal Xbox was an entirely new piece of hardware with no proven track record and a completely unknowable future, but a lot of exlcusives. Its sales at launch was respresentative of consumers willingness to try something new. Lets not forget that microsoft invested a lot into making this a system suitable in Japan at launch with Dead or Alive 3 and Jet Set Radio future being launch titles and exclusives, alongside Halo. We cannot simply ignore how seperate from the competition the Xbox was.
Xbox360: as things panned out out, the OG xbox obviously wasn't a hugely favoured system and inevitably this was reflected in sales at Xbox 360's launch. So with the arrival of the 360, we no longer had a new player in the game. We were looking at something that was quanitifiable and very western. Its almost inevitable that it sold barely half of the original xbox.
It obviously wasn't going sell more then the 360 that would be like berating the PS4 for not even approaching ps2 sales. The Xbox One is just continuing in the 360's legacy. Tie that in with a lower interest in home consoles and even less investment in Japanese games this time and strikes me that anyone would find these numbers shocking or out of characters.
