This question is mainly aimed to the lovely people of america.

 Japan has spent countless years rejecting your products with no regard to whether it being they are good or not. ( look at the past 7 years of game sales. )

They only buy products which are made in their own country. Which effectively is a big 2 fingers to the american industry.

So could someone please tell me why some americans do the same and support japanese consoles more than those made in there own backyard?

ive always questioned this myself.....

The Japanese prefer a very specific styling of game that the US companies typically do not create.   They also prefer tight play control over graphics.  And of course things insanely cute to the point of nauseating.

With consoles, it's a similar issue.  Most games on the 'American console' are not catered to the Japanese audience. 

American gamers are more diverse overall and there's 3 times as many of us as theire are Japanese too.   Given that, we're willing to play a game sconsole that provides that diversity which the 'Japanese consoles' do very well.

Its called loyalty.

Do you think Lexus comes even close th BMW sales in Germany ?

Because America is more free market and buys the best and cheapest regardless of where it's made. When MS can make as good and cheap a product as Japanese companies it'll win America as it should. Until then we'll stick with Nintendo and Sony for the most part.

As for Japan, they care a lot more about quality while we care more about price in the US. Being somewhat obsessive about the quality of electronics myself I fully understand why they would reject the 360 (same reason I have). The Xbox was a different case. In addition to marketing gaffes, MS made the console way too large for the typical Japanese consumer (who is also obsessed with tiny electronics). Not to mention there are next to no games for it Japanese wanted.

Yes I know the 360 is the current market leader in the US but only because of the 1 year head start and it will change soon.

just face it, the Japanese are better engineers then the American's. Look at the American cars against the Japanese cars for example. :P

But even though at the time this is posted the 360 has much more diverse games available over a multitude of genres than the PS3 people still back the japanese industry and cuss there own?

It all comes down to price and whats popular, if its cheap it sells, if its popular it sells just like the ipod. But most of all it comes down to price, most people shop at Wal-mart the biggest company in the world and all they sell is cheap goods.

@selnor
2 acronyms for you, RRoD and FPS-itis.

As much as Xbox is struggling in Japan, the same applies for American cars among many other products. American cars don't sell well in Japan for a lot of reasons. One of which is price, and maybe that American quality is unacceptabel to Japan. And they think the same about XBox, which I don't blame them for; its failure rate is ridiculous. I personally drive a Japanese car, which is very reliabe, unlike my brother's American made car.