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This local store was celebrating their grand opening and selling 360s for about $80 less than normal.

I predict a Joystiqing.

Do you know how many unsold 360s they had at that store?

Are any of the retailers slashing the prices of games? I can't imagine anybody paying full price for a game if they wont pay full price for the console.

If it can be found for $200 (before shipping) w/ the Final Fantasy XI demo, I will beg and plead with any Nihon-residing CAGs to pick one up for me. Holy crap, what a good deal.

Are they giving away "lucky bags", like at the Apple store (Ginza)?

Originally Posted by Kaijufan Do you know how many unsold 360s they had at that store?

I'd guess a lot since the 360 sold 50K it's first week and then 8K the next week. So it's total sales for the first two weeks were less then 58K.

dude, $253.64 US, what a steal, considering its hard enough to get one for 400 here

And they sold none.

This just in, 641 copies of "Every Party" have been sold since launch. I wonder how many were printed?

Damn. Pick me one up, Cheapy! I wonder how much it costs to get those mods for import games.

Originally Posted by evilmax17 This just in, 641 copies of "Every Party" have been sold since launch. I wonder how many were printed?

OW!

Now that DOA4 is out in Japan, will these actually sell?

Unbelievable. Microsoft is foolish for trying a simultaneous worldwide 360 release. Thousands of U.S. gamers are left out in the cold, while Japanese 360s remain unsold even at discount prices. Microsoft should have concentrated on the ONLY market that supported the original Xbox, that is the U.S. market and tried a Japanese release when it had some games that catered to Japanese players available.

I wonder why breaking into the Japanese market is so tough. Its not like Bill Gates is trying to sell an American car to them...

Originally Posted by Xevious I wonder why breaking into the Japanese market is so tough. Its not like Bill Gates is trying to sell an American car to them...

Sony and Nintendo.

Originally Posted by Xevious I wonder why breaking into the Japanese market is so tough. Its not like Bill Gates is trying to sell an American car to them...

As far as I see it, Japanese people are a lot more conscious about quality hence:
PS2 > GC > Xbox
DS > PSP > GBASP > GBM

And it's probably also due to the lack of RPGs and non-sports/FPS library that the Xbox was famous for, probably didn't fare too well for the 360.

I agree though, MS was stupid to think they would penetrate the Japanese market with games PDZ and NFSMW. The biggest selling 360 game was RR and the 360's game-to-console ratio was something like .91 meaning for every 50K 360s sold, only 45.5K games were sold. Yes, some people didn't buy games even though they bought the console... most likely, they're just waiting for DOA4.

It'll be interesting to see last week's and this week's hardware numbers.

Originally Posted by Vinny As far as I see it, Japanese people are a lot more conscious about quality hence: PS2 > GC > Xbox DS > PSP > GBASP > GBM

no, its DS > GBA > PSP

Originally Posted by gunm Are they giving away "lucky bags", like at the Apple store (Ginza)?

Yes, they are! Well, not giving them away, you have to buy them. They all different kinds of video game related ones...I should have taken a picture. I was just in the store today buying a $33 DVD player.

You can find the jap versions on Ebay ... a ton of them are showing up. but they are region 2! so unless there is a hack you wont be able to play any US games on them :( plus I think the menus are in Japanese