The Shrine

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Ouch for Xbox first week sales "According to the sales report from Japan, the launch of XBox in Japan has not created an impact on the sale of both PlayStation 2 and GameCube, game retailers from Osaka and Tokyo mentioned that they have sold about 12 - 20% of their initial shipment of XBox."</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>But honestly, do you really think the world is supposed to turn upside down when XBox is released in Japan? It'd be weird if it did have a noticeable effect.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.dengekionline.com/soft/ranki ... ing.htm</a>

Xbox had the no.1 title for the week and total sales of 124,000. Compare to that the GC sales from Dengeki of about 170,000 and the numbers match up decent enough. Furthermore factor in that the Xbox is competing in a foreign territory which despises American products and you have a decent launch. However, the Xbox won't keep up the decent sales of the launch due to it having no decent selling title beyond DOA3.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The sources you were referring to earlier Seeker are pretty old, keep with the times ;0.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>My Source is www.the-magicbox.com Febuary 28th news, which is today</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Bet you they'll release my Dengeki post a week from now. You should just check out forums such as the IGN or the gaming-age forums, people usually post up articles as soon as they are off the wires.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Errr, that requires becoming an IGNInsider, I'll pass.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Actually, the Magic Box numbers match yours...</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>I knew it.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>But I got them before they did, that's the point :).</div>