Castef
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About 15.000.
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So the Xbox One launches today in Japan...
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About 15.000.
sturgboski
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Holographix
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Most successful Xbox launch yet?
They all seem to have staff passes.
Most successful Xbox launch yet?
They are advertising the Surface Pro 3 also it seems....
Maybe 900 units at around 45 hours or so?
Dead Prince
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Most successful Xbox launch yet?
seeing as no xbox ones on the floor? no. will wait for PR
https://twitter.com/kojima_pro/status/507181295164596224/photo/1
Harada of Tekken fame there (with sunglasses and wearing the exact same Iori t-shirt I have).
EDIT: Beaten
This picture, all I can hear when looking at it is them all screaming:
WAHN!!
Most successful Xbox launch yet?
Are those people waiting for the Xbox One corner to open or are they just there? That kinda looks like a cinema foyer.
Zombie James
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DustyVonEric
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I'm thinking five figures, like 25,000. And then a major drop to 2,000 the next week.
These numbers are based on zero market research and have been pulled from deep within my buttocks.
WhiskerFrisker
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I assumed we were talking about week 1, not lifetime.
The last bit of iDOLM@STER MS will ever see.
Hison Yohannas
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Either they launched early to get momentum or Xbox Japan has been tricking us with these release dates.
Clearly the demand is astronomically high, and hundreds of k will be sold, hundreds of k.
Clearly the demand is astronomically high, and hundreds of k will be sold, hundreds of k.
*bows*
foxuzamaki
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I seriously didnt know this, I knew microsft wouldnt really try too hard but I wondering if they even bought shelf space
Hison Yohannas
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Fans wrote it off, MS are still launching in Japan. Japan just ain't the massive zone that developers need to capture. They have to throw their nets much wider now.
Nightengale
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Joke, bro.
Most successful Xbox launch yet?
Microsoft is really cornering that Microsoft employee market.
Banjo-Kazooie
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Picking my preorder up tomorrow after class.I've been waiting so long for this to finally come out. Between this and Smash Bros next week, I'm not going to be getting much work done.
Don't they also have a Karoke app or something on launch? Maybe that will be popular?
Jimmyfenix
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Harada is every where. Pokken , SCEJ Press Conference and Xbone Launch. Seems like a cool guy.
I hear 4k is the new hotness in sales.
Why should anyone there buy an Xone?
Multiplatform games are available (in better quality) for the PS4 and there are/will be more and higher quality exclusives for tbe PS4 (expecially japanese games).
People in Japan are interested in great exclusives and love games from their own country and I wish MS best of luck but they seem to not really be prepared for Japan.
It will probably sell less than the 360 (which sold under 2 million in his entire life cycle).
Multiplatform games are available (in better quality) for the PS4 and there are/will be more and higher quality exclusives for tbe PS4 (expecially japanese games).
People in Japan are interested in great exclusives and love games from their own country and I wish MS best of luck but they seem to not really be prepared for Japan.
It will probably sell less than the 360 (which sold under 2 million in his entire life cycle).
Hison Yohannas
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Apple destroys your theory. Heck Ouya was imported for awhile to, has nothing to do with brand loyalty (outside possibly Nintendo.)
WhiskerFrisker
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I read in another thread that TitanFall preorders are up. So perhaps it will be doing the heavy lifting.Yeah:
Nightengale
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Brings his waifu with him everywhere he goes.
launching a system during summer. worst thing you could ever do.
poor ms, they should just avoid japan. its clearly a waste of money, if they are hardly accepting any foreign brands except apple.
sad to see, that the xbox and the best system of ms, the 360 clearly failed there.
i still hope, its going to change and they are able to change the market there a bit, but i guess home consoles are a thing of the past.... mobile is the new buzz word there...
poor ms, they should just avoid japan. its clearly a waste of money, if they are hardly accepting any foreign brands except apple.
sad to see, that the xbox and the best system of ms, the 360 clearly failed there.
i still hope, its going to change and they are able to change the market there a bit, but i guess home consoles are a thing of the past.... mobile is the new buzz word there...
I have a feeling MS invested maybe 1% in XBO of what they did with 360 in Japan, no big exclusives (sans Scalebound) or JRPGs, not even a TGS conference... makes me kinda nostalgic about first few years of 360 in Japan, number of japanese exclusives system got back then seem so surreal now.
Anyway if anyone cares looks like Chaos;Child got demo released on japanese gamestore, new site also http://chaoschild.jp/
Anyway if anyone cares looks like Chaos;Child got demo released on japanese gamestore, new site also http://chaoschild.jp/
Amory
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Right but that's my point.
They're launching there but obviously they're not pushing it very hard, it's more like "well here you go, buy it if you want". And then the response in this thread is basically "yeah right MS! No way you'll sell any of your console in Japan!" But that's their feeling too. They know they're not going to sell very many.
There is always China...
Seriously? 6 posts in....
I really hope the xbox does really well today.
For all the shit people may give it I thoroughly enjoy mine.
Think it's a great system with a great bunch of exclusives as does the PS4.
Kinectless version will probably have 10% more sales.
Hison Yohannas
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So any news on why they are releasing like 2 or 3 days early?
I'll throw around 400-500k just for the lols. With my more realistic guess being 200-300k............ Just for the lols.
I'll throw around 400-500k just for the lols. With my more realistic guess being 200-300k............ Just for the lols.
Thanks, added some photos to the OP and cleaned it up a bit.
Lifetime?
I think it is more of a case that no one shows up at the launch event, so they don't even get to see if they like it or not. A product like the iPhone (which by the way has a proper marketing team behind it) is one of those things that are so good people get to know if they like it without actively being curious.
Afaik the Surface Pro is good there. The problem with the MS side is that in all of the stores everything looks like it is just subtitled for the Japanese market.
I don't know where gamers there to their shopping, but one thing you can see in Tokyo is that word of mouth pretty much dominates the advertisement there. They should have had a deal with Hello Project to release exclusive AKB48 drama or something packaged with the event.
There wouldn't be any death threats or people being disappointed because it would only be tied to the event itself, possibly one where people simply play a game of Titanfall or DR3 with the zombie AKB48 girls as DLC (hilarious TV show I saw there).