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So the 360 isn’t hot at all in Japan. In fact its sales are worse than the GameCube launch! After its second week out it has only sold 8623 units, not even coming up to par with the GameCube. What is with Japan, do they not like the next gen consoles anymore apart from their own? The Xbox 360 is sold out in nearly every other country except for Japan. Maybe they are anti Microsoft and they just want to wait for the Revolution.

This is a performance so far in Japan beneath even the low standards of the original Xbox’s launch - in large part thanks to the continued non-appearance of Dead or Alive 4 or any other prominent Japanese-developed titles.
The PlayStation 2 was the third best selling console this week in Japan, with a 8.92 percent market share and 55,342 units sold. The Game Boy Advance family of consoles was next with a 5.48 percent overall share (Game Boy Advance SP: 19,098, Game Boy Micro: 14,432, Game Boy Advance: 416), followed by the GameCube at 2.88 percent and 17,849 units sold. Despite plenty of stock the Xbox 360, as mentioned, could manage only a 1.39 percent market share and 8,623 units sold, beating only the original Xbox on 0.03 percent and 182 units sold.

Well the stats speak for themselves. We’ll just have to wait for the 360’s to keep on coming to the rest of the world while Japan has plenty.

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BTW: I did get a 360, so it looks like Santa thought I was good. This is the reason for the lack of posts, I will try to have more coming. I’ll have some pictures up in a post with my mini review soon.