XBox 360 launched in Japan

[expletive]

Interesting
Enchant Arm ($66) at #13
and PGR3 ($61) at #18
That's not too bad...

This is interesting too. The #5 game is a ps2 game which costs $111 USD
Gunparade Orchestra: White Chapter (incl. Limited Edition)

But probably most interesting is that DOA4, the game that was going to save the 360, did not even make it to the top50.

I agree that eM and PGR is not bad.

With DOA4, i htink that the userbase is so small now and their game library is so limited, theyre probably getting these games ASAP the first week and then everyone who wants it has it. THere isnt really a 'long tail' to games on a console with such a small userbase and library. IIRC though, it did sell well when it was released.

 

[mckmas8808]

I agree that eM and PGR is not bad.

With DOA4, i htink that the userbase is so small now and their game library is so limited, theyre probably getting these games ASAP the first week and then everyone who wants it has it. THere isnt really a 'long tail' to games on a console with such a small userbase and library. IIRC though, it did sell well when it was released.

So couldn't that be a problem with most if not all games that come out for the X360 in Japan?

 

[expletive]

So couldn't that be a problem with most if not all games that come out for the X360 in Japan?

Yep, until they sell more systems.

 

[mckmas8808]

New numbers from Japan!!

Hardware

DS: 64,515 (210,177, total since January 1st 2006)
PSP: 38,271 (228,714)
PS2: 26,271 (146,097)
GBASP: 7,912 (35,338)
GBM: 4,653 (22,813)
GC: 4,490 (23,378)
X360: 3,616 (17,200)
GBA: 236 (1,033)
Xbox: 83 (358)

Link

 

[Bobbler]

Sales slowed down heavily it seems. Kind of strange to see sales being nearly an order of magnitude greater just a month earlier.

 

[seismologist]

I Can't believe DOA4 didn't make the top 50. Maybe time for Tecmo to rethink their priorities..

 

[Carl B]

It's doing pretty well here though. I think Team Ninja already views Japan as their secondary market, and NA as their primary.

 

[speng]

Sales slowed down heavily it seems. Kind of strange to see sales being nearly an order of magnitude greater just a month earlier.

Most likely due to the month earlier being holiday season.

Speng.

 

[Carl B]

Most likely due to the month earlier being holiday season.

Speng.

Not in Japan though. Their big holiday season is yet to come.

 

[Lysander]

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-02-01T094931Z_01_T336906_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-JAPAN-MICROSOFT.XML

Microsoft had sold 112,657 units as of January 29 in Japan, according to a survey by Enterbrain, the publisher of leading Japanese game magazine Famitsu.

 

[Mmmkay]

So we finally have a detailed list of numbers as reported by Famitsu (sadly only up until Jan 15th). Given that these numbers line up very closely with Microsoft's reported figures in their financial review, it suggests that Famitsu [nee Enterbrain] are their tracker of choice (I do wonder why Moore would discredit them though)

12/10-12/12
RR6 29891
PDZ 14897
NFS 6842
FIFA 2494
Tetris 1531
---
HW 62135

12/12-12/18
RR6 6268
PDZ 4051
NFS 3790
FIFA 1383
Tetris 979
---
HW 12320

12/19-12/25
DW5s 5747
RR6 2606
NFS 2186
PDZ 1812
Wrestle K 1370
---
HW 7315

12/26-01/01
DOA4 62603
RR6 2280
DW5s 2059
PDZ 1757
NFS 1396
---
HW 12755

01/02-01/08
DOA4 6264
RR6 1122
PDZ 1095
NFS 1062
DW5s 906
---
HW 8655

01/09-01/15
[eM] 12858
PGR3 10623
DOA4 2875
RR6 703
NFS 541
---
HW 4620

Totals:
DOA4 71742
Ridge 42870
PDZ 24125
NFS 15817
[eM] 12858
PGR3 10623
DW5s 9169
FIFA 6382
Tetris 4657
King Kong 1526
Wrestle K 1370
---
HW 107800

Yes the numbers we've been previously discussing were Media Create, who generally track lower than Famitsu as a rule of thumb. I cannot give you an exact reason why this is, but I believe it is down to their differences in how they extrapolate data. Hopefully, someone who follows the Japanese market more closely could offer some guidance here.

Regardless though, either can be used to observe trends in sales but neither are very good for saying "Yes this is how many units have sold" with the truth probably somewhere inbetween.

 

[Lysander]

Odd that Kameo is not out in Japan yet, considering it`s the most anime of all.

 

[one]

Odd that Kameo is not out in Japan yet, considering it`s the most anime of all.

It's in Disney style but not Disney, which is a big letdown. The same thing can be said for PDZ, its art style is very different from that of Japanese anime if you know what today's anime are like. Besides Kameo gets sometimes grotesque like Conker. It was released in Japan yesterday, but I expect subpar sales. It's said that one of the big mistakes of Microsoft Japan was they put nothing but Kameo on kiosks at the launch in Japan.

 

[Slay]

Media Create Hardware Sales 23-29 January

DS 106,081
PSP 30,657
PS2 24,580
GBASP 5,946
GBM 3,042
GC 3,036
Xbox360 1,976
GBA 179
Xbox 128

 

[Mr. Hanky]

Ouch!!!

 

[Hardknock]

Media Create Hardware Sales 23-29 January

DS 106,081
PSP 30,657
PS2 24,580
GBASP 5,946
GBM 3,042
GC 3,036
Xbox360 1,976
GBA 179
Xbox 128

Fixed.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Fixed.

Yes, I'm sure that's something very relevant to thread labelled "XB360 launched in Japan"...

If you want to talk about how well DS is doing, take it to it's own thread.

 

[Mr. Hanky]

Maybe he was inferring that the X360 number isn't so bad once you see how much DS is beating PSP- about 3.3:1. Of course, that then brings attention to the fact that "last gen" PS2 is beating "current gen" X360 by a whopping 12:1! Of lesser note , PS2 is also beating GC by 8:1.

 

[mckmas8808]

Man the Xbox 360 seems like it's going to do numbers comparable to the Xbox.

 

[Bobbler]

There is only one thing to say about this week's Japan X360 numbers:

"Solid, if not spectacular."