Xbox 360 sells well in Japan. Reality implodes!

Written By Dragonfly 145 days ago
News Category: Console News
Relevant Consoles: : Nintendo DS : PlayStation 2 : PlayStation 3 : PlayStation Portable : Wii : Xbox 360

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And now for the final instalment of our epic trilogy.

Regulars will recall the two recent stories concerning Tales of Vesperia, a 360 exclusive, and how the title has performed exceedingly well in a country whose adversity to the Xbox 360 is well documented.

It seems like the game's surprising popularity has had a knock-on effect to hardware sales; for probably the first time ever, the Xbox 360 has actually outside the PlayStation brand in Japan.

Data for week ending August 10. Thanks, Media Create.

* Nintendo DS - 60,434
* PSP - 58,501
* Wii - 38,506
* Xbox 360 - 24,962
* PlayStation 3 - 9,673
* PlayStation 2- 8,503

It looks like signing on an RPG exclusive wasn't the stupidest idea for Microsoft after all.

And with a number of exclusive RPGs from prolific developers due out for the 360 in the coming months, the console war in Japan just got a lot more interesting.

Tags : Hardware Sales : Japan : nintendo ds : playstation 2 : PlayStation 3 : playstation portable : Tales of Vesperia : Tales of... : Wii : Xbox 360

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Comments

By: Snake Plissken On: 02:50 Aug 15th, 2008 Offline	*Croons at the sight of PSP sales* They love their handhelds in Japan as well as their RPGs. Good move Microsoft getting some good RPGs as you say with more coming soon the 360 is def looking at a light at the end of the tunnel in Japan.
By: Kelz On: 04:23 Aug 15th, 2008 Offline	God damn you reality, imploding like that.
By: Wilhelm On: 05:57 Aug 15th, 2008 Offline	Snake Plissken;56744 They love their handhelds in Japan as well as their RPGs. I wonder how many of those PSP's were used with the camera attachment on the subways? :P
By: Dragonsoul On: 07:38 Aug 15th, 2008 Offline	Kelz;56749 God damn you reality, imploding like that. How dare it! :lol: You gotta hand it to MS right now; they've obviously made a smart move. They knew what would work and they went for it, and are being rewarded for it. Congrats for them.
By: Evren On: 08:33 Aug 15th, 2008 Offline	Hoozah for MS. =3 Nice to see it getting some well deserved respect over there,
By: ManicGamer On: 03:09 Aug 15th, 2008 Offline	Haha. WOW. Maybe their NPD figures will surpass the PS3 for the first time this year in August. If Japan has any say in it it, I'd say they will.
By: boa On: 03:49 Aug 15th, 2008 Offline	It had to happen eventually, MS are just too good at business not to break through at some point.

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