The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Dead or Alive 3 (Tecmo) - 142,148
Halo (Microsoft) - 57,250
Genma Onimusha (Capcom) - 35,043
Project Gotham Racing (Microsoft) - 30,655
Jet Set Radio Future (Sega) - 27,432
Shikigami No Shiro (Mediaquest) - 22,705
Gun Valkyrie (Sega) - 20,072
Air Force Delta II (Konami) - 9,459
Nobunaga's Ambition Ranseiki (Koei) - 9,329
Double S.T.E.A.L. (Bunkasha) - 9,041
Rallisports Challenge (Microsoft) - 7,884
Nezmix (Microsoft) - 7,114
2002 FIFA World Cup Korea Japan (EA Square) - 6,836
UFC: Tapout (Capcom) - 5,724
Metal Dungeon (Panther Soft) - 5,605
Bistro Cupid (Success) - 5,579
Myst III: Exiles (Ubi Soft) - 4,785
Jikkyou World Soccer 2002 (Konami) - 4,422
F1 2002 (EA Square) - 3,049
Knockout Kings 2002 (EA Square) 798
Mad Dash Racing (Eidos) - 779</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Courier New"; text-align: left; '>Ooh... Well, you have to understand the Japanese market. They see buying domestic goods as supporting the collective, even at incredibly inflated prices. To them, buying foreign goods is kind of like letting their country down.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>They make nice cubicle heaters at least. =8^)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It's not really Microsofts fault, they're the Gaijin Console. Bill Gates just didn't do his research well enough.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Besides which, Microsoft stated from the beginning that they expected a difficult time penetrating the japanese market...

*shrug*

What I'd really like to see are the European numbers...I usually rely on you bias bastards to post that info...but I haven't seen it in a while...

Good riddance...I hate the jap influence on videogames anyway.

Split the markets! Split the markets!</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>US market is now substantially bigger than the Jap market. Nintendo figured that out when its ass was saved with the N64 here, and Sony and Microshaft are putting as much effort here - or more - as they are overseas. In Europe, I believe the 'Box and 'Cube are doing fairly decent, but Sony rules</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Still.....that's a pasting. I mean, the Wonderswan Color is crushing it right now</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I stopped caring about Japanese game except the RPG since they make the RPG I want to play, though recently there hasn't been anything innovative... or even halfway decent RPG except FF10.</div>