I love my 360 for its games not its sales, it has no chance of beating the Wii and a very slim chance of beating the PS3, but I still think it will be seen as a success in the long run, why ??? Better hardware and software sales than the original Xbox and better 3rd party support, sure the Wii is the big winner but at least Microsoft is doing a decent job of batteling Sony in the HD sector,  I think the 360 will prove than Microsoft is a force to be recond with in the console market and that lots of 3rd parties will ceep supporting it.

You don´t need to win to be a success... 

The more threads you make, Leo-j, the closer 360 will come to winning. Why don't you start making more?

OT: I don't think it will. It will do well enough for a next get x box, but won't win this gen.

Japan loves America and American products. I lived there for 3 years and besides their women being with them, they love us Americans. "Local Only" bars are everywhere though.

But they LOVE American products. Its so hilarious seeing "gangster" Japanese kids with American jerseys of sports teams they probably have never even heard of.

The reason why Xbox fails in Japan is because Microsoft did a bad job catering to their tastes last generation. That distaste extended into this generation. And while there are a few titles for their tastes, most are simple not.

no this generation belongs to nintendo

 http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/rpg/finalfantasy12/review.html?mode=web&tag=hotslot;theysay

If a 9.1 is bad, there are a lot of terrible games out there. 

http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/launchreview.asp?reviewid=811196

 if a 4 out of 10 is good then i guess there must be a lot of great games out there.

 wasnt that fun ;)

anyways, have you played the game?

it was junk and extremely forgettable. 

ratings dont matter if they only get good ratings because of the title.

I'll fight that Bubbles,

http://www.rpgfan.com/reviews/finalfantasy12/index.html

97% from a site dedicated to RPG's

and it's a 92% on Metacritic

Boosh!

Whilst remaining profitable, Microsoft cannot win this generation with the Xbox 360.
They could comfortably come second if they act with intelligence and determination.

was that a joke?  If not, then you missed my point.

Everyone i know believes the game was shit as well.   The only thing decent in the game was graphics.  

the story sucked.  the side quests sucked.  the characters sucked.  the battles sucked.  the audio sucked(mostly).  the ending was atrocious.  no replayability (hard enough forcing yourself though it once).    and so forgetable when someone mentioned the game to me the other day, i couldnt remember one thing about it(other than my sense of disgust with it).... had to go look it up before i remembered why it was so crappy.