24th December 2005, 11:41 PM
The launch was a success in North America, a flop in Japan. They should have allocated the Japanese Xbox 360's to North America and launched later in Japan. I don't think there's any chance of the Xbox ever being a real contender in Japan so it doesn't really make any difference over there but having more Xbox 360s would have really helped here. I think the Japanese developed games will actually help more in the west than in Japan. There's a lot of people in the west who like those types of games and one of the complaints about the original Xbox was that it didn't have many JRPG's.