XBox 360 launched in Japan

[dukmahsik]

man they shouldnt have launched with those sucky launch games

 

[Slay]

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

or even worse, and so far it sell significaly worse than xbox.
This is stolen from GAF.

Xbox launch weeks:
123,929
37,147
10,930
7,924
5,005
5,157
3,188
2,532

195,812 in first 8 weeks.

VS

360 launch weaks:
43,970
8,623
5,674
12,300
7,477
6,107
3,616
1,976

89,743 in first 8 weeks

 

[mckmas8808]

or even worse, and so far it sell significaly worse than xbox.
This is stolen from GAF.

It's bad that they sold 100% less 360's compared to the Xbox at the same period of time. I wonder if MS will lose focus in Japan and stop caring after the PS3 and Revolution are released in Japan?

 

[drpepper]

It's bad that they sold 100% less 360's compared to the Xbox at the same period of time. I wonder if MS will lose focus in Japan and stop caring after the PS3 and Revolution are released in Japan?

Don't you mean 50% less? 100% would entail no 360s moved from the shelves.

 

[mckmas8808]

Don't you mean 50% less? 100% would entail no 360s moved from the shelves.

NO. Hold on a minute... *thinking*


50% less would mean they would have sold, ugh I think you are right. No, I know you are right. I was thinking the oppisite (i.e. increases)

 

[Bobbler]

Don't you mean 50% less? 100% would entail no 360s moved from the shelves.

In the grand scheme of numbers 0 is a pretty close approximation to 90k!

 

[Lysander]

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.

This is stolen from GAF.
360 launch weaks:
89,743 in first 8 weeks

 

[avaya]

GAF numbers are from Media Create

 

[drpepper]

NO. Hold on a minute... *thinking*


50% less would mean they would have sold, ugh I think you are right. No, I know you are right. I was thinking the oppisite (i.e. increases)

Yeah, increases it would have been right.

@Bobbler
0? 90k? You definitely are an engineer with those approximations.

 

[Sis]

@Bobbler
0? 90k? You definitely are an engineer with those approximations.

Well, comparing PS2's lifetime sales with Xbox 360's lifetime sales in Japan, you basically have a rounding error. And I always round down to zero.

In all seriousness, this downward trend is a bad omen. Does Xbox Live Arcade have any mindshare in Japan? If I were Microsoft, I would hit that hard, given the Japanese public's love affair with portable gaming. (I'm making a leap that the love affair is with simple games, not their portable aspect.)

 

[V3]

Well, comparing PS2's lifetime sales with Xbox 360's lifetime sales in Japan, you basically have a rounding error. And I always round down to zero.

In all seriousness, this downward trend is a bad omen. Does Xbox Live Arcade have any mindshare in Japan? If I were Microsoft, I would hit that hard, given the Japanese public's love affair with portable gaming. (I'm making a leap that the love affair is with simple games, not their portable aspect.)

Simple games surely, but don't underestimate the portable aspect of it.

MS needs to repackage X360 perhaps with HDDVD or Blu-Ray but integrates that external Power Supply, redesign the case, just for the sake of being different from current one. Remove the MS and Xbox badge from the console and game, partner a Japanese company maybe Toshiba and sell it under Toshiba with a different name. Don't ever use Xbox brand name again.

 

[one]

or even worse, and so far it sell significaly worse than xbox.

I suspect the original Xbox could get support by SEGA fans at the launch day. These days things are different...

 

[expletive]

New 360 commercial in JP:

http://www.xboxyde.com/news_2607_en.html

Yay.

 

[drpepper]

Neato, the first footage of Blue Dragon that I saw.

What I don't understand is, at the end, why do they have the slogan "Jump in" in english? Should they not use something more suited to the Japanese, and have it in the Japanese language?

 

[AlNom]

What I don't understand is, at the end, why do they have the slogan "Jump in" in english? Should they not use something more suited to the Japanese, and have it in the Japanese language?

Direct translation probably wouldn't work too well, and a proper translation could have been...long.

Katakana is just fine.

 

[PeterT]

What I don't understand is, at the end, why do they have the slogan "Jump in" in english? Should they not use something more suited to the Japanese, and have it in the Japanese language?

Oh, don't worry about that, interspersing a few engrish words is cool among the japanese youth.

 

[Dr. Nick]

The slogan isn't a big deal it's the rest of the stuff that needs to be fully understood by the people they are advertising to.

 

[pipo]

Neato, the first footage of Blue Dragon that I saw.

Search the same site for two BD commercials...

 

[mckmas8808]

Japan's Latest Numbers

1. DS: 47462 (451363)
2. PSP: 31742 (369424)
3. PS2: 24104 (265377)
4. GBASP: 4964 (62854)
5. GBM: 3175 (38704)
6. GC: 1836 (34228)
7. Xbox 360: 1203 (25174)
8. GBA: 113 (1697)
9. Xbox: 61 (824)


The numbers in parenthesis are for the full year of 2006. The Xbox 360 is begging for a hit game in Japan right now.

 

[Dr. Nick]

I got these numbers from the media create web site

DS 52,099
PSP 27,430
PS2 23,433
GBASP 5,553
GBM 2,941
GC 1,814
Xbox360 1,314
GBA 105
Xbox 92