22nd December 2005, 2:39 PM
Nintendo, 459,000... Sony, 150,000... Microsoft, 8,805. Poor Microsoft, you'll never win in Japan... the Japanese like Western technology, but only so that they can then go and make copies of the stuff and buy those products instead. :) (which, of course, eventually end up better on average than the original products are by that point...)
... though I do think that the X360 will do better than Xbox in Japan. Just give it time for the Japanese-developed games to come out... the launch lineup there is unbelievably weak. And Microsoft is going to make sure that Japanese-developed games come out, even if they have to pay for them themself... (Sounds kind of like how Nintendo gets third parties to actually support the Gamecube, sadly enough...) :)
... though I do think that the X360 will do better than Xbox in Japan. Just give it time for the Japanese-developed games to come out... the launch lineup there is unbelievably weak. And Microsoft is going to make sure that Japanese-developed games come out, even if they have to pay for them themself... (Sounds kind of like how Nintendo gets third parties to actually support the Gamecube, sadly enough...) :)