Sep 11
Microsoft has sold 75,837 Xbox 360 units in Japan in 2006 so far, according to Enterbrain’s data. Nintendo, meanwhile, has sold 77,124 GameCubes during the same period.
That’s right! Microsoft’s new system was outsold by Nintendo’s five year old system this year in Japan. Crazy stuff!
The Japanese just know quality, or they all work for the big N.
Oh Japan, why dost thou hate thine Box of X?
Keep in mind the price drops.
360 really is a good system. It’s a shame the Japanese don’t care for it.
Oh well… WII W00t!
GO NINTENDO! U r00l.
Microsoft has no footing in Japan.
It’s not really surprising. The gamecube is way cheaper and so are the games (you can’t rent video games here so you have to buy them new or used and alot of gamecube games only go for a few dollars worth of yen), and the games that the Japanese find interesting tend to be different than what is most popular in the states, and X-Box is mostly western developers.
FPS are horribly unpopular here. It’s a pain in the ass to find a halo or half life 2 deathmatch server here, and when you do they are almost all co-op maps (with all players on the same side) or goofy maps with no point like going fishing with the gravity gun.
X-Box just doesn’t have much of anything to offer to the Japanese market, I don’t understand why they even bother trying to sell it here.