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[Jonnyram]

Launch date: 2002.02.22
Sales so far: 473,122

Still showing lots of spunk, with The King of Fighters Neowave and Sonic Riders due out this week.
Here's to four years of 360, perhaps! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

 

[AndriaSang]

KOF and Sonic Riders should be the last Xbox games in Japan. The Dreamcast outlived its spiritual successor in Japan

 

[Beezy]

She's doing a good job of hiding it with that smile, but she's really struggling to hold it like that.

 

[Kuroyume]

One day (hopefully) FPS games will reign supreme over there.

/me raises glass to the XBOX in Japan

Cheers!

 

[imastalker co.]

KOF and Sonic Riders should be the last Xbox games in Japan. The Dreamcast outlived its spiritual successor in Japan

a handful of great sega games doesn't make you the spirtual successor to Dreamcast got that?

 

[fse]

less than half a million in four years?

 

[BudokaiMR2]

It was a sad sad day.

I mean to think, being born physically and mentally handicapped. It must have been hard to live through the early years, being bullied by bigger kids...

You just can't help but feel sympathetic.

 

[Beezy]

less than half a million in four years?

Sad to know that the DS did that in a week.

 

[samusx]

Isn't this more like an anniversary wake?

 

[monkeyrun]

xbox got teh MOMENTUM in japan

 

[BlueTsunami]

Sad to know that the DS did that in a week.

Shit, putting it that way is like twisting the knife while its in your eye

 

[jooey]

Isn't this more like an anniversary wake?

I will remember you
Will you remember me?
(no)

 

[gjb-sensei]

less than half a million in four years?

What a joke.

 

[Striek]

This time 4years ago expectations for the Xbox in Japan were high, MS went to work with a spring in their step, their heads held high....
*sob*

a handful of great sega games doesn't make you the spirtual successor to Dreamcast got that?

A fanbase built on ex-Sega fans does though

 

[Howard Alan Treesong]

It must have been hard to live through the early years, being bullied by bigger kids...

Though the Xbox has certainly been bullied in Japan for many reasons, being smaller than the "other kids" is not one of them!

I shall play a funereal dirge using...Elec Org 2! in honor of Microsoft's fallen console.

 

[Oblivion]

Quick, somebody post the pic with Blinx standing in line for an Xbox360.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

:lol :lol :lol

 

[imastalker co.]

A fanbase built on ex-Sega fans does though

how do Sega xbox game sales compare to PS2 or GameCube?

 

[mj1108]

how do Sega xbox game sales compare to PS2 or GameCube?

You can't count PS2 and GameCube game sales on one hand.

 

[PolyGone]

She's doing a good job of hiding it with that smile, but she's really struggling to hold it like that.

surely its empty, there's no way she could hold a real one like that for any length of time. Neither could I.

 

[n-off]

She's doing a good job of hiding it with that smile, but she's really struggling to hold it like that.

Which one do you mean?

 

[Striek]

how do Sega xbox game sales compare to PS2 or GameCube?

Hey they assimilated with the XBOX agenda©. SPIRITUAL!

Don't poke holes through the generalisation plz

 

[Cold-Steel]

KOF and Sonic Riders should be the last Xbox games in Japan. The Dreamcast outlived its spiritual successor in Japan

No it didn't, the PS2 is still alive and kicking.

Virtua Figher, Gungrave, etc. - more SEGA content than the Xbox ever saw.

 

[Jonnyram]

Most of you seem to be missing the point that the hardcore Sega fans hate the crap out of Sony and will not touch their products. DC and I know someone who still doesn't own a PS2 but owns an Xbox and 360 now. He borrowed DC's PS2 to play Monster Hunter, though.

 

[Troidal]

[crying mother]

The Xbox would have been 4 years old if he were alive today....
He just couldn't blend in with the environment, poor baby....ohohohohoooo

[/crying mother]

 

[cvxfreak]

Sad to know that the DS did that in a week.

3 times.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

Western marketing needs more rubber sluts!

 

[junkwaffle]

 

[PolyGone]

do you write for vgcats?

 

[kurisu_1974]

One day (hopefully) FPS games will reign supreme over there.

/me raises glass to the XBOX in Japan

i'm missing the irony tags here?

 

[M3wThr33]

do you write for vgcats?

That's a horrible fucking insult.
At least junkwaffle doesn't take 30 panels to do it.

 

[Beezy]

More like we don't have legs!

Lol am i rite?

 

[Fishie flop oog]

Though the Xbox has certainly been bullied in Japan for many reasons, being smaller than the "other kids" is not one of them!

I shall play a funereal dirge using...Elec Org 2! in honor of Microsoft's fallen console.

Dammit man, every single one of your posts is a minor work of art.
You rock in a cool electronic way.

 

[Shaheed79]

If the hardcore Sega fans went to Microsoft how come the Sega games flopped so badly? Just doesn't make sense. Even Sonic did poorly. Did MS turn them into Halo fanboys and they stopped giving a crap about Sega games?

 

[Chrono]

less than half a million in four years?

 

[PolyGone]

damn, was Itagaki horribly burned at some point in his life?

 

[Battersea Power Station]

damn, was Itagaki horribly burned at some point in his life?

Yeah, but then he burned the perpetrators times 100.

 

[Blackace]

Launch date: 2002.02.22
Sales so far: 473,122

Still showing lots of spunk, with The King of Fighters Neowave and Sonic Riders due out this week.
Here's to four years of 360, perhaps! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

where can I get the xbox girl battlr armor?

 

[DCharlie]

damn, was Itagaki horribly burned at some point in his life?

yeah, he bought a PSX.

 

[M3wThr33]

How many PSXs were sold in Japan?

 

[Reilly]

damn, was Itagaki horribly burned at some point in his life?

he just has really bad acne. He's tries to act like a badass so no one picks on him.

 

[Servizio]

Oh Xbox.

Hey, offtopic: Junk, what kind of tablet/software do you use for your pics?

 

[dose]

damn, was Itagaki horribly burned at some point in his life?

No, that's displacement mapping.

 

[belgurdo]

"Ugh. Holding this gaijin controller is just so...disgusting. At least I don't have to get both my hands dirty holding the console like Mayumi..."

"...I think my back is breaking..."

 

[cybamerc]

Look at the bright side... at least Xbox 360 is doing a lot worse

 

[Furoba]

If the hardcore Sega fans went to Microsoft how come the Sega games flopped so badly? Just doesn't make sense. Even Sonic did poorly. Did MS turn them into Halo fanboys and they stopped giving a crap about Sega games?

Sega's fanbase is either spread out on all platforms, or stopped caring and moved on.

If Xbox didn't have Team Ninja, would Xbox have sold considerably worse in Japan?

 

[M3wThr33]

Sega's fanbase is either spread out on all platforms, or stopped caring and moved on.

If Xbox didn't have Team Ninja, would Xbox have sold considerably worse in Japan?

Yes. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

 

[VanMardigan]

Look at the bright side... at least Xbox 360 is doing a lot worse

Frickin ouch. I've never seen a high profile console rejected in such a manner.

 

[solarplexus]

damn, was Itagaki horribly burned at some point in his life?

He fought against Mace Windu

 

[Cheebs]

Sega fanboys did NOT go to Xbox. Sega's Xbox games did horribly. Anyone who says they went to Xbox is blinded by their fanboyism. They were split between PS2 and GCN. The Sonic fans went to GCN and the rest to PS2.