Xbox 360 manages to briefly outsell PS3 in Japan

At first I thought I was at joystick and the news was in trollish, but what you know it is a interesting lil bit of info.

It can't be! Lots of Xbox fans have claimed that Japan is the bias against Xbox ...
See? This just proves the point that as long as you adapt your product to the Japanese market (in this case, get games Japanese gamers are actually interested in), foreign brands CAN sell in Japan.

Of course, it'll take more than one game to keep up this trend but it does disprove the assumption that Japanese don't buy the console purely out of a bias against foreign brands.

Originally posted by kyo28:

---

It can't be! Lots of Xbox fans have claimed that Japan is the bias against Xbox ...
See? This just proves the point that as long as you adapt your product to the Japanese market (in this case, get games Japanese gamers are actually interested in), foreign brands CAN sell in Japan.

Of course, it'll take more than one game to keep up this trend but it does disprove the assumption that Japanese don't buy the console purely out of a bias against foreign brands.

---

Its always been games on the Xbox brand the JP consuemrs would want keeping it from selling well, and in the end that will what keep the unit sells down, it might have outsold for a month or a week but it can't keep it up.

Yea surprised me, I figured half those Japs where all Sony fanboys.

Originally posted by goodswipe:

---

Yea surprised me, I figured half those Japs where all Sony fanboys.

---

Games+price always win, the PS2 had both the PS3 dosent really have either yet.

I really doubt there's any bias against US branded hardware. I game with a number of Japanese gamers, and they all say that they're just waiting for the right games to come out for XBOX. Many of them say that they would not be surprised if Sony falls from the limelight soon, as many people are getting increasingly upset with Sony's latest business practices.

See, in Japan, copying and distributing media is generally regarded as a compliment to the artist/company by the general public, and they are very unhappy with the whole BD+ protection method.

Originally posted by Hardwyre:

---

I really doubt there's any bias against US branded hardware. I game with a number of Japanese gamers, and they all say that they're just waiting for the right games to come out for XBOX. Many of them say that they would not be surprised if Sony falls from the limelight soon, as many people are getting increasingly upset with Sony's latest business practices.

See, in Japan, copying and distributing media is generally regarded as a compliment to the artist/company by the general public, and they are very unhappy with the whole BD+ protection method.

---

Tell that to the anime studios and Nintendo ^_~

But really MS has a more or less solid platform what they lack is games, they really should drop another 20Mill into the pot and get JP devs aboard and then do basic translations (no dubing) and ship them to the US/UK focus on delivering fresh games lines with no heavy localization raping to destroy the nuance of the game, its WIN,WIN they gain ground in the JP market and gain a niche market in the US/UK for translated but not locolized.

MS could make it cheap for devs to dev and trans for the 360 and then sell their games in the US bolstering their line up 2 fold.

MS is missing a big opportunity here as much if not more than PS3s dcking around with the PS3.

to me this is just like a spike that goes up and then goes back down like the stock market.

Originally posted by borhan9:

---

to me this is just like a spike that goes up and then goes back down like the stock market.

---

Same for the PS3 sells really.