This is so fucking awesome. They sold out, 100%!!!!

THAT MEANS THEY WON JAPAN!!!

One photo means the whole country is sold out?

They have them at my local Bik Camera..

They must have a really low target ....
That's very poor planning to have a big title like Tales come out and not have enough xbox in stock. It's not like they were selling like hotcake in Japan.

When I realized this was a repost, I was gonna let it die, but it appears everyone wants to discuss this, so here goes.


@*bleu-ocelot*

What, do you think you're cute?


@HanzoTheRazor

You're using anecdotal evidence. Kotaku and a lot of other sources have presented pictures, reports, and press releases from Microsoft, that say the console is sold out across Japan. Therefore, for our purposes, we must assume that is is, no matter how much some of us wish it weren't true.

I also wish it weren't true, but for entirely different reasons than yourself, I fear.


@STAGE

I believe the outlaw was referring to JRPGs as MS' biggest releases in Japan only.


@outlaw and bbsin

Yes, MS performed poorly by failing to capitalize on momentum.


@kber81

Yes, maybe. I'd feel safer with a couple hundred thousand though.


@obieslut

I wouldn't work for Microsoft. Hate the company. If I did, their NPD press releases would be a lot more convincing.

Love the console though, to my surprise. I judged a book by its cover



@stick

That begs the question. Did MS not print up any extra units for IU that they coulda shuffled out the door early? I think it's a fair assumption to say that MS didn't expect nearly this sort of hardware bump from Tales. Classic underestimation of the Japanese core audience, seen commonly in today's market.

Looks like MS is trying to pull a Nintendo in Japan , if we're hearing about it then it's likely that it's in the newspapers , magazines and possibly even the T.V. Microsoft is basicaly creating false demand for a real product in order to create real demand.

Dought it'll work though.

Great MS is setting a foothold in Japan, they have loads to offer to Japanese Gamers.

Frankly, I think that's an unfair and baseless assumption about Nintendo and Microsoft, with no evidence to back it up.

I could say the same thing about the PS3 in Others and America, frankly, but I think it's fairly obvious that it's not true.

To continue to be frank, I think this is a case of marginalization in form of conspiracy theory. When the facts don't support your hopeful reasoning, someone must have covered the "real" facts up.

There is more evidence to support the existance of a ghost-alien hybrid roaming the Scottish highlands, because at least you might be able to find some sort of crazy hermit witness to such a thing.

I mean, obviously MS realizes that the best business decision they could make is to wait until there is tenative interest in its console for the first time, and immediately proceed to stop selling it for a couple of weeks. Evidence? We have it right here: A Playstation fanboy, claims that he saw a plethora of the consoles at Circuit City in Tokyo. My God! Air F'N tight.

Better for the japanese that won't buy a 20gb unit.. ho waits will get an 60gb jasper model (and mabe cheapper).

Well it's clearly false because it would be largely irrational for Microsoft to do so, in the same way that it would've been irrational for Nintendo to do it as well. Quite simply you cannot create artificial demand - there is simply excessive demand or supply at a given price point.

But possibly the greatest reason why this is false is that both Nintendo and Microsoft are hugely successful firms and you don't get that way by intentionally making decisions that cost you money with no upside.

Preorders for IU suggest less than 50K week 1... I don't think it's going to be a problem.

@Hanzo don't make baseless accusations without evidence.