Um... 25K is a lot for the 360... and if they like, SOLD OUT... then like, there weren't anymore for them to sell... so like, they couldn't sell more than that. But no, seriously, I'm certainly glad the 2/3rds of the Sony Squad showed up in this thread. Always nice to have balance or something.
Like I said before bollocks, Kotaku went to Akihabara and looked in a few shops, I mean it's not like OTHER SHOPS IN JAPAN SELL THE XBOX 360 AND YOU COULD BUY THE STUPID MACHINE... and 25K wow! Still nice to break 5 figures at least once a year. :clap: :lol:
No the point I was making that there is no way they are sold out unless there were no 360 in japan to begin with. Secondly if they were sold out, how the hell did they find 7k more to sell the following week (the 25k figure was the week that Tales came out, 7k was just last week). Kotaku is a shit fanboy site and sorry if you don't like us showing that they are wrong about things. If kotaku or some site had an article stating the ps2 was selling out all over last week, I would have posted the same information. :noooo: -- edit -- Just to add, i had a jpn 360 for a long time (i only sold it since It was collecting dust, I barely tough my ps3 at all, I do actualy happen to have an xbox 1 still which I would never sell, I also have no ps2. Stop pulling the fanboy card when things don't go your way).
Because they want to believe the Xbox will sell well in Japan and not just for one game, and most fan boys seem to think that Japan = akihabara...
Apparently it was on the evening news yesterday (not on NHK though, of course) that the Xbox is sold out, that is. My wife told me about it, and she's not interested in games at all. Microsoft is sure pushing it's PR activities. I kind of like it, seeing the underdog sticking out his head. Of course here in Hiroshima I can go out an get a new or used one anytime.
Wow, did you get the GameFAQs boards to help you with that one? :lol: Or does the truth hurt so much that you've got to try to get personal? Seriously, I would expect more from an Assembler poster. That was rather pathetic. Of course, if we compare post counts and join dates.... hmmmmm... which one of us is sitting around a message board more often? As for sir subbie: If Microsoft issues a LETTER apologizing for selling out of their systems... Hmmm... logic would dictate that this isn't just Kotaku checking some shop and running back screaming. If Microsoft is saying that they are currently running out of supplies... and Microsoft is the supplier... Of course, if you had actually read the original post, I was actually wondering why Microsoft had so few consoles out (to where Microsoft would announce a brief shortage) for something like Tales of Vesperia. It isn't me going, "Oh wow! The the PS3 is in trouble now!" so much as its me going, "How could MS drop the ball like that?" Also, IGN reported it as well: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/899/899130p1.html And they got confirmation from Media Create analysts pertaining to the shortage. So... it seems fairly clear to me, that this isn't Kotaku making some stuff up based off of one store.
I can't say anything for Tokyo but where I live I can go in to ANY of the 8 real game shops in this city and buy a 360 new or used without a problem. Plus you've got the likes of the chain stores and Toys R Us who all have stock as well. Same with the next city and the one after than. Personally I wouldn't believe a single thing that Kotaku post on their site. Pretty much anything they post about Japan turns out to be bull shit. My wife's friend works in Microsoft Japan up in Tokyo so if you want an official answer I'll get her to ask him. By the way, my wife went to his wedding a few months back and had the change of getting the Elite 360 is a special transparent gift case or an aroma set. The stupid woman got the aroma set thinking that I never liked Microsoft plus the aroma set would be easier to carry home from Tokyo. man, it's Sony I don't like, I told her. :crying: You should have seen my face when she was telling me about it. yakumo
That's hilarious, but chances are she can get one again if she is good friends with the guy. That is quite a contact you have Yakumo. Lucky you.
So what an article dated the 15th which barely touches on the subject validates this when I post sales data that includes the 15th which shows low sales of 360 units means that the 360 is selling like crazy? Added on top of that, people in japan saying there is no trouble finding a 360 in japan. So all this together means somehow 360 are sold out IN JAPAN? So then sucess is that microsoft has pretty much not shipped units at all to japan? Shortages also does not instantly equate sold out. :banghead: Also if I were to buy every spoon feed bullshit companies like nintendo, microsoft and sony were to feed me, I would have to assume alot of shit that ends up not being true. Hell back in the hayday nintendo use to make them selfs look like they were commanding the entire console market because they would combind GBA sales data into the gamecube sales data and then diff that against single consoles by the comeditor. Oh yeah totaly the gamecube was the best selling system of all time man. :thumbsup:
Subbie, Where did anyone say Microsoft is being "successful"? Where? Did you not read the other post I made either? Are you reading an alternate reality thread? The entire point of this thread, which you have completely missed, is that I find it odd that Microsoft would have so few 360s out in Japan when something like Tales of Vesperia came out. There is a shortage, because there weren't many 360s out there, and this has been reported by Media Create or whoever and Microsoft has apologized (not hyped it up to other people, they apologized to the consumer) for not being able to meet demand. No one has said the 360 is successful or is going to be successful in Japan. No one subbie. Its OK. No one thinks the PS3 is going to get outsold soon. There's no reason to get riled up. Also, the numbers for the second week were already predicted by that Media Create company, as they said the 360s sales would be hurt for awhile due to the shortage. Or did you not actually the article either? :shrug:
Why is that a bad thing? MGS4 shifted PS3s in the west... Thing is, surely it's a good idea to get a console because of the games...
Personally, I just find MS's struggle in Japan fascinating. Its a brand that has recieved nothing but borderline hostility from the consumers in the region since its creation, and now we see Microsoft desperately struggling to make SOME headway there. And they're doing all the things that should move consoles like crazy, and yet the Japanese are still just turning a blind eye to it in general. And I think all of us know that MS will never... EVER... get too far in Japan, no matter how many JRPGs they buy. Of course, now I think it has more to do with the Japanese just not being interested in next-gen systems and in general being somewhat frugal (which, good for them). But I swear, Microsoft should've just bought Sega when they had the chance and just slapped the Sega logo on their machine in the east.
for me as a sega fan its somehow disgusting. but yeah, i think that MIGHT have worked out. :thumbsup:
That's just the problem, they're not. Now Nintendo, they know how to advertise where as Microsoft only seem to crawl out of the woodwork once they have a big title to push. That is NOT going to impress the general public in to buying your system. Nintendo on the other hand are always advertising shite like how you can exercise on the Wii, or shoot with the Wii (They use that crappy Zelda game to show that) or how you can have Family fun playing one of the million Mario games. It's crap like this that make it sell. Of course to you and me we couldn't care less but the sad fact is that we are a minority in the world of gaming now. The "Family" image is the bigger picture or at least it is in Japan. Sad, but true. This is something Microsoft need to understand. Same goes with the PS3. Sales of that are pathetic. In fact there are more 360 adds on TV recently than PS3. Yakumo Hey, nice to see Tenchu 4 coming on the Wii and not the PS3 :thumbsup: Looks really good as well.
Microsoft in the 141 weeks of selling the Xbox 360 have sold more then 10,000 units on just 10 of those weeks. More then 20,000? a pathetic 3 and 1 of those was the launch when they sold around 55,000 units. The only games to cause peaks are Blue Dragon, Ace Combat 6 and the current RPG. Going back to Microsoft apologising, still sounds like a publicity stunt, mainly as... 1) Except for a few shops in Akihabara the machine was still easy to pick up everywhere. Still reporting "Microsoft have sold out of a pathetic number of machines at wholesale level in Japan, Kotaku reporter can't be arsed going down the road to see if he can buy an Xbox 360" isn't punchy enough. 2) I know they normally only sell barely 2 to 4 thousand units a week but they knew that this game might shift a few more units so they could have easily ordered a few more. 3) Microsoft have made a half arsed effort in Japan, the quicker they admit defeat the better.
