There is a good chance this could happen if enough software that the Japanese audience wants is released for the system exclusively. But there is no denying that M$ has broken the market a little more this Gen than the last. You never know they might end up being a player in Japan in a couple of Gen(If they are still in the video game console business at that time.)

But then again foreign companies always have a hard time breaking the Japanese market. Very few do. Though Apple has done well there with their IPod.

The 360 hitting 1 Mill is now a dead cert in Japan!! =) whoever would have thought it could reach 30k one week even with a big game release.

The 360 is currently at 715k, it has 2 more big games to hit, SO4 & TLR + Christmas boost + Price drop.

It wouldn't be too far fetched to say it could reach 800k by the years end.

Even if it sells 5k a week from now on thats another 75k (15 weeks to go) and thats an average number sales might settle into.

Optimistically it coudl do 850 if those two big games boost sales like TOV & IU

this is an old thread >_>

I remember posting in this, seems I didn't

Still, 360 will certainly see 1 million in Japan, I think it might end it's life around 1.3 million.

Whenever people bring this up, they seem to forget how Microsoft lost $4 billion in the process. $4 billion can essentially buy 20mil GC's, so it isn't exactly impressive...

OT: The OP's reasoning is no good, but regardless, it should be known by now that the 360 will go beyond 1mil.

Interesting how things change. Right now, depending on the if the price cut and the stable of games have managed an increase in the baseline sales, plus Last Remnant and Christmas boost (plus some minor boosts from games like GTA4 and Gears of War 2 - very minor but still it'll be a small percentage increase), it has a long shot at 1 million by the end of January 2009.

Has this been revived for Crow Eating purposes? o_O

Is he the second coming of mrstickball?

I could actually see it hit the million mark sometime next year with games like "Last Remnant" and "Star Ocean" coming on it.

Price cuts and more JRPGs will help sell consoles in Japan
They need Mistwalker and Square to dev games

Lot's of dumb posts in the first half of this thread.

Johnsobas and Tremble at the top of that list.  Congrats on having zero foresight.