Microsoft having issues meeting X-Box demand...in Japan?

[Eric]

Did Hell just freeze over?

[Tessian]

Or is it more of a "We have 1000 unit supply and 1500 unit demand" ?

[SineSwiper]

Did Hell just freeze over? :huh:

Geesh, not even a fucking link about it....

[Julius Seeker]

A Tales game was just released for the system, the first game that is really interesting to the Japanese released on the system.

[Zeus]

When you allot 3 systems per week to the country and release a game that 6 people want, you get a bit of a backlog

[SineSwiper]

A Tales game was just released for the system, the first game that is really interesting to the Japanese released on the system.

That's not completely true. There was Eternal Sonata, Katamari, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Phantasy Star Universe, Enchanted Arms, Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom.

Also, Infinite Undiscovery is coming Sept 1.

[Zeus]

Blue Dragon caused them to sell something like 150k units in a month if I'm not mistaken.

That's the issue with the 360 over there. They care about 2 or 3 games a year, max. It sells great for that first week then it DIES

[Julius Seeker]

A Tales game was just released for the system, the first game that is really interesting to the Japanese released on the system.

That's not completely true. There was Eternal Sonata, Katamari, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Phantasy Star Universe, Enchanted Arms, Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom.

Also, Infinite Undiscovery is coming Sept 1.

I don't think the interest was high surrounding any of those games. A lot of those games you mentioned (like Katamari) are actually more directed at North American fans of Japanese games rather than the Japanese themselves.

[Zeus]

A Tales game was just released for the system, the first game that is really interesting to the Japanese released on the system.

That's not completely true. There was Eternal Sonata, Katamari, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Phantasy Star Universe, Enchanted Arms, Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom.

Also, Infinite Undiscovery is coming Sept 1.

I don't think the interest was high surrounding any of those games. A lot of those games you mentioned (like Katamari) are actually more directed at North American fans of Japanese games rather than the Japanese themselves.

Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon for sure caused a huge surge in sales over there. There was even a Blue Dragon bundle with a special face-plate and stuff. PSU was actually on the PS2 as well so I don't think it affected them much. Trusty Bell, which was our Eternal Sonata if I'm not mistaken, did OK and Katamari was slow in sales all over the world. Kingdom Under Fire wasn't even released there if I'm not mistaken, that's a US-developed title, no?

[Julius Seeker]

According to Enterbrain nearly 25K sold.

[Zeus]

According to Enterbrain nearly 25K sold.

For Kingdom? That's basically being unreleased :-)

[SineSwiper]

My bad, thought it was a Japanese title.

[Julius Seeker]

According to Enterbrain nearly 25K sold.

For Kingdom? That's basically being unreleased :-)

Sorry, 25K Xbox 360's for the week.

[Zeus]

According to Enterbrain nearly 25K sold.

For Kingdom? That's basically being unreleased :-)

Sorry, 25K Xbox 360's for the week.

Yeah, which is a fuck-lot more than the usual 2 to 5k they sell in a week. You can imagine they don't bother diverting too much supply to Japan

[Julius Seeker]

For Kingdom? That's basically being unreleased :-)

Sorry, 25K Xbox 360's for the week.

Yeah, which is a fuck-lot more than the usual 2 to 5k they sell in a week. You can imagine they don't bother diverting too much supply to Japan

For most of the last 12 months it was around 1K, sales started going up in the past month or so.