So the Xbox One launches today in Japan...

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When I told one of my coworkers that X1 has a kinectless sku, he said that if he ever bought one, that's the one he'd get, since his room is too small to use kinect.
 
Picking my preorder up tomorrow after class. :) I've been waiting so long for this to finally come out. Between this and Smash Bros next week, I'm not going to be getting much work done.

Nice! Please come back with impressions and I'll add em' to the OP.
 
Microsoft are doing what they did last gen and they've paid 5pb/Nitroplus for exclusivity (hopefully it won't last) on the new Science Adventure game. God damn I hate third party exclusivity. :(
 
Famitsu review scores for xbone games:

Crimson Dragon (XBO) – 7/7/6/7 [27/40]
Dead Rising 3 (XBO) – 8/9/7/9 [33/40]
Forza Motorsport 5 (XBO) – 7/9/8/9 [33/40]
Kinect Sports Rivals (XBO) – 6/7/7/7 [28/40]
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood (XBO) – 7/8/8/7 [30/40]
Ryse: Son of Rome (XBO) – 8/7/7/7 [29/40]
Zumba Fitness: World Party (XBO) – 7/7/7/6 [27/40]

Source: Gematsu

So are those good or bad?
 
Seriously? HAHAHA. I was hunting down a fight stick today and went into numerous stores. Xbox one wasn't getting any action.

Well it shouldnt have considering that its released tomorrow not today. Tomorrow as in the 4th of September.
 
When I told one of my coworkers that X1 has a kinectless sku, he said that if he ever bought one, that's the one he'd get, since his room is too small to use kinect.

IS the range still an issue on XB1? I thought the camera tech in Kinect 2 sorted that out?
 
Picking my preorder up tomorrow after class. :) I've been waiting so long for this to finally come out. Between this and Smash Bros next week, I'm not going to be getting much work done.
Have you seen any advertising or anything? Commercials, signs, billboards? It doesn't sound like they did anything :lol. The 360 got some advertisement (I think).
 
Picking my preorder up tomorrow after class. :) I've been waiting so long for this to finally come out. Between this and Smash Bros next week, I'm not going to be getting much work done.

The chosen one! This must be it, the prophecy!
 
It's currently ranked #8 on Amazon for the Kinect bundle and #20 for the Titanfall bundle. That's the best rank the console has ever been, except when it became available for preorder (then it was number one during two days if I remember well).

The only games having a chance to figure in the top 10 next week seems to be Dead Rising 3 and Forza Motorsport 5, and maybe Titanfall since the bundle are counted.

Hard to make a bet, but I'm not sure it will do better than 100K for the launch week. It would even be a miracle since Xbox 360 dit 60K for the first two days.
 
Have you seen any advertising or anything? Commercials, signs, billboards? It doesn't sound like they did anything :lol. The 360 got some advertisement (I think).

Absolutely no advertising at all, aside from some flyers in game stores and some demo units in Yodobashi Camera.

Honest to god, I think I'm the only one in this country excited about this thing.
 
So are those good or bad?
Quite bad for Famitsu. I figured they'd like Dead Rising at least? Maybe it got too Americanized.

Absolutely no advertising at all, aside from some flyers in game stores and some demo units in Yodobashi Camera.

Honest to god, I think I'm the only one in this country excited about this thing.
Crazy. I think this launch is a $ loss for MS. They're just launching in Japan so they can say they're in Japan. Probably the same story in some of those smaller Euro countries as well.
 
yo MS fund some Cave and/or M2 games

I mean I don't know how much good it will do you but it will do me plenty.
 
Have you seen any advertising or anything? Commercials, signs, billboards? It doesn't sound like they did anything :lol. The 360 got some advertisement (I think).
I was just at Osaka electronic superstore a month ago, the X1 display and promo vid there looked like it was targeted at Americans. It was like a slice of America.
 
sort of excited to see some good arcade shooters on the console.

the 360 is the undisputed king in this regard.

I don't see why that would continue to be the case though. Didn't they flock to 360 because Sony was a dick to Cave and refused their games or something? Wont' happen this gen plus PS4 is selling so much stronger, shmups seem like they'll be right at home on PS4. Especially with Resogun and Velocity 2X on it.


Japan loves handhelds. It would be pretty surprising if it weren't #2 really, considering the lack of JP PS4 games.
 
So, will Vita outsell it?

considering the Vita sells around 16-20k weekly in Japan, I think the XB1 will outsell it in its first week, but fall behind on the second one. By the 4th week, it should be at PS4 level (5-6k) and then sink even further.
 
I was just at Osaka electronic superstore a month ago, the X1 display and promo vid there looked like it was targeted at Americans. It was like a slice of America.

"Hey bro wanna play the sweetest of all consoles bro it's got baseball or how the cool guys call it: YAKYUU bruh."
 
I don't see why that would continue to be the case though. Didn't they flock to 360 because Sony was a dick to Cave and refused their games or something? Wont' happen this gen plus PS4 is selling so much stronger, shmups seem like they'll be right at home on PS4. Especially with Resogun and Velocity 2X on it.



Japan loves handhelds. It would be pretty surprising if it weren't #2 really, considering the lack of JP PS4 games.

MS will probably push the ID@Xbox thing for more Japanese developers. I know they have a few already but it will be interesting to see if anyone else jump onboard.
 
considering the Vita sells around 16-20k weekly in Japan, I think the XB1 will outsell it in its first week, but fall behind on the second one. By the 4th week, it should be at PS4 level (5-6k) and then sink even further.

4th week? I'd say it'll hit the current PS4 baseline in the 2nd week.
 
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