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Xbox One sold 23k during launch week in Japan, TitanFall best-selling title
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aspiegamer
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Legitimately not worth the most basic text translation, QA and certification/publishing costs at some point. And that's incredibly sad. When niche groups bring stuff to the West an English localization is at least a product that far more consumers can play than going the opposite direction into the smaller market.
This is why a ton of big third-party stuff is Sony exclusive in Japan. No one wants to spend a single dime localizing to JP. Sony doesn't even need to pay for the rights to a bonus PR tag and bragging rights. Honestly quite interested in seeing how many units Destiny sells, however, and we'll know that in 10-12 days.
For ...one week, yes, probably, though 3DS and Vita are likely the two top spots overall. We're probably looking at Vita TV-level weekly sales once things are settled.
Really?
Those are some pretty bad numbers. I wonder what the drop-off in sales will be for the 2nd week.
SwiftDeath
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No worries.
I severely doubt we'll hear any PR from MS specific to the Japan launch
What?
It's horrible! Doesn't matter what the first shipment was.
Aquamarine
Member
"Better than the NeoGeo Pocket!"
I have a feeling it's going to be hard to find out about those. They are probably as bad as Japan.
SwiftDeath
Member
When your PR can't in good conscious use the phrase "well it could always be worse", you know there's a problem.
yeah. even though the xbox 360 launched lower than the original xbox, it did fairly well for itself in comparison to its predecessor. more than a couple games managed to crack 100k on the platform.
1st Course
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Probably will be doing 3 digit numbers few weeks from now.
Katana_Strikes
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Dayum girl!!
Honestly terrible even if you don't compare with other systems. But maybe a little more than I was expecting going off the launch indications which looked poor. Though expectations were super low. So well done MS for beating those
Honestly terrible even if you don't compare with other systems. But maybe a little more than I was expecting going off the launch indications which looked poor. Though expectations were super low. So well done MS for beating those
shacklesmcgee
Member
Everything outsold it.
Worst launch ever...
That's so weird to think about...no game system has ever sold worse in Japan, hunh
FinalStageBoss
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Wait did someone call 23k decent? Lmao
Ps4 did like 300k launch week and went on to bomba.
Ps4 did like 300k launch week and went on to bomba.
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Deleted member 125677
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It's Xbox and Japan. I don't know what people expected. The 360 has been selling in the hundreds like forever
RoadHazard
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How are people saying "not too bad" about this? In 4 days they managed 7% of what the PS4 did in 2 days. Or in other words, the PS4 sold 14 times as much in half the time.
Ok, so we already knew MS struggles in Japan. But this is still much worse than previous launches. The XBO, in 4 days, did 23% of what the original Xbox did in 3 days, or 37% of what the 360 did in 2 days.
It's terrible. By far the worst Japanese Xbox launch ever.
Ok, so we already knew MS struggles in Japan. But this is still much worse than previous launches. The XBO, in 4 days, did 23% of what the original Xbox did in 3 days, or 37% of what the 360 did in 2 days.
It's terrible. By far the worst Japanese Xbox launch ever.
It's currently the best selling console in Japan (on average). Not that that says anything...
Oh, ye of little faith.
"Xbox continues to be the coolest console with the coolest launch in Japan amidst the outbreak of heatwaves."
this is a joke right, on both accounts?
aspiegamer
Member
Some research on "things that happen to 23k Japanese citizens every week" might be fun. For example, "more Japanese caught an STD at love hotels this week than people who bought a console at launch", or "more Japanese were victims of upskirting perverts than there were people who bought Microsoft's newest hardware". Or "more Japanese walk past the Microsoft store in [fill in the name of a major train station] in one hour than bought a new Xbox nationwide in the first week. ((Statistics are Tales From My Ass))
And to anyone calling it a solid launch, I really want to know how low your original expectations were. They had 15 months of pre-order time before launch. 15 months. Plus it includes the "mech effect" Microsoft was hoping to gain out of Titanfall.
Katana_Strikes
Member
Xbox 1 outsells Xbox One in Japan.
Phoenician_Viking
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Amazing debut. I bet the Xbone has outsold all the other consoles combine
this week
I wonder what XB1 will stabilise at?
Wii U and PS4 seem to hover between 6k and 15k. 3DS and Vita seem to hover between 20k and 40k.
XB1 - 1k - 3k would be my guess.
KainXVIII
Member
lol
RoadHazard
Gold Member
I think it will drop below 1k per week before too long.
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
Brilliant.
I could argue that I typed in "minus 1k to 3k" in my post.
FinalStageBoss
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Wouldn't surprise me at all if it drops below 1k tbh.
Eolz
Member
What the hell...
This is worse than the worst predictions
What was the 360 doing in the months after launch, as I think I'll be half that at least.
TheXfactor
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that launch line
Rhazer Fusion
Member
That is much better than I expected which was like 1200 units, especially considering the lines were practically empty. This is Xbox in Japan. Xbox has never been remotely popular in Japan.
Nightengale
Member
You do realise that Japan is ultimately, a country of 125+ million?
Never being remotely popular doesn't mean it has no niche. Terrible stuff have sold thousands.
A niche in a country like Japan still has potential of several hundred thousand lifetime.
Maybe they are people, dressed as cones? It's possible.
that launch line
HeWhoWalks
Gold Member
No way to spin it. The numbers are BAD!
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