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360 Sold out or not

i have been to Shinjuku yesterday (Dec 10) about noon
i came across some chain store (e.g. biccamera, sakuraya) and found that xbox360 was not sold out

yesterday night (Dec 10) i went out to Ginza to do some shopping. I visited biccamera and sofmap (at Yurakucho) at around 08:30PM Japan time and found that they still had plenty of xbox360 on stock.

now is Dec 11 11:30AM Japan time, some chain store web sites still accept xbox360 online order. so xbox360 was not sold out in japan on the launch day (Dec 10)

Sofmap
http://www.sofmap.com/shop/topics/topics_02.asp?TPC_CD=3840

Bic Camera
http://www.biccamera.com/bicbic/jsp/w/catalog/detail.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=0010103946

Yodobashi
http://www.yodobashi.com/enjoy/more/i/45515380.html

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was xbox360 sold out in US on the launch day (Nov 22)?


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suggest to change the title to "360 Sold out or not in Japan"
 
Amir0x said:
Let's see just some of your more recent COMPELLING threads:

360 Sold out or not
So does NPD count walmart or not? (aka maybe 360 numbers aren't accurately reflected in NPD because Wal-Mart isn't tracked! That'd add like, what, at least 100,000!)
So when 360 doesn't fail in Japan
Is it true 360 sold 400,000 consoles day 1
Nerdy and possibly bad reasons why 360 is going to do better in Japan
Team Xbox getting a lot of mentions lately. 360 glitches?
Most people on forums lying about broke 360s?
Now that the 360 had been a Success
Top sellers by store and 360 begins its reign
Pick up your 360 jacket here
Kameo already climbing charts
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best poster ever
 
Amir0x said:
Let's see just some of your more recent COMPELLING threads:

360 Sold out or not
So does NPD count walmart or not? (aka maybe 360 numbers aren't accurately reflected in NPD because Wal-Mart isn't tracked! That'd add like, what, at least 100,000!)
So when 360 doesn't fail in Japan
Is it true 360 sold 400,000 consoles day 1
Nerdy and possibly bad reasons why 360 is going to do better in Japan
Team Xbox getting a lot of mentions lately. 360 glitches?
Most people on forums lying about broke 360s?
Now that the 360 had been a Success
Top sellers by store and 360 begins its reign
Pick up your 360 jacket here
Kameo already climbing charts

I HAVE NO IDEA WHY VERY FEW PEOPLE TAKE YOU SERIOUSLY.

BLINK



Please feel free to file a complaint when you feel a thread that is "bashing" the 360 is out of hand! I'm sure whatever you do send me will be total bullshit and worth laughing about, but be my guest!
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Actually, from that post list, I'm wondering if this guy is a PR mouthpiece for Microsoft given he made sure 360 was in nearly every post topic.
 
januswon said:
i have been to Shinjuku yesterday (Dec 10) about noon
i came across some chain store (e.g. biccamera, sakuraya) and found that xbox360 was not sold out

yesterday night (Dec 10) i went out to Ginza to do some shopping. I visited biccamera and sofmap (at Yurakucho) at around 08:30PM Japan time and found that they still had plenty of xbox360 on stock.

now is Dec 11 11:30AM Japan time, some chain store web sites still accept xbox360 online order. so xbox360 was not sold out in japan on the launch day (Dec 10)

Sofmap
http://www.sofmap.com/shop/topics/topics_02.asp?TPC_CD=3840

Bic Camera
http://www.biccamera.com/bicbic/jsp/w/catalog/detail.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=0010103946

Yodobashi
http://www.yodobashi.com/enjoy/more/i/45515380.html

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was xbox360 sold out in US on the launch day (Nov 22)?


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suggest to change the title to "360 Sold out or not in Japan"
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THESE REPORTS ARE CONFLICTING WE NEED A MORE RELIABLE SOURCE
 
ghostface said:
THESE REPORTS ARE CONFLICTING WE NEED A MORE RELIABLE SOURCE
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the fact is that at least several largest chain stores still have xbox360 on sale

Sofmap
http://www.sofmap.com/shop/topics/t...asp?TPC_CD=3840

Bic Camera
http://www.biccamera.com/bicbic/jsp...T_ID=0010103946

Yodobashi
http://www.yodobashi.com/enjoy/more/i/45515380.html

you can still buy xbox360 at the chain store or at web site
look at the xbox360 shopping web site yourself by your eyes (sorry japanese only)

you are not living in japan, i am
 
januswon said:
look at the xbox360 shopping web site yourself by your eyes (sorry japanese only)

you are not living in japan, i am
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Read my post again and take it into the context of the rest of the thread. :)
 
ghostface said:
Read my post again and take it into the context of the rest of the thread. :)
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you said you need a more reliable source

those large chain stores in japan still offer xbox360 even by online order right now (Dec 11 Japan time)
so xbox360 is still available in Japan on the 2nd day
and xbox360 was not sold out on the launch day (Dec 10 Japan time)

is this clear enough?
are the xbox360 online order web pages not reliable enough?
 
januswon: he's being sarcastic--it's obvious that Xbox 360 isn't sold out in Japan, yet SOME Xbots keep trying to insist that it is, it MUST be, it's Xbox 360!
 
januswon said:
you said you need a more reliable source

those large chain stores in japan still offer xbox360 even by online order right now (Dec 11 Japan time)
so xbox360 is still available in Japan on the 2nd day
and xbox360 was not sold out on the launch day (Dec 10 Japan time)

is this clear enough?
are the xbox360 online order web pages not reliable enough?
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It was a freaking sarcastic comment, dude. I actually take your word over some "other" reports.

p.s Usually when someone uses caps on this board they're probably not being serious.
 
Aika'svyse said:
Or you could have done what a mod does and combined it with the other thread . Sheeesh

I bow out of GAF I've had enough
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Yes, go to TXB, where objectivity reigns supreme :lol :lol :lol
 
ghostface said:
It was a freaking sarcastic comment, dude. I actually take your word over some "other" reports.
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(I get the feeling English might not be januswon's first language ;) )

The Take Out Bandit said:
From the sound of it, Japan got a lifetime supply of them. :X
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Well, the first shipment of Xbox 1 to Japan literally never sold out--lots of people bought Xboxes several years after the fact to find one with a pre-launch manufacture date. Xbox 360 will probably do much better, in the long run...but Japan has a history of not selling out with a vengeance!
 
ghostface said:
It was a freaking sarcastic comment, dude. I actually take your word over some "other" reports.

p.s Usually when someone uses caps on this board they're probably not being serious.
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thank you

if DOA4 could make it on the launch day
i believe xbox360 sales at least can hit 200K in the first week (incl sunday Dec 11)
 
Where have you been? DOA4 has already been delayed a couple of times. I wouldn't expect it until next year at this point.
 
i mean IF DOA4 could

i ordered the xbox360+doa4 bundle
now DOA4 delayed until Dec 29
I asked sofmap to deliver the xbox360 console to me first
then wait until Dec 29 for DOA4

but IF DOA4 could be ready yesterday
the xbox360 sales could be much better, i believe
 
JackFrost2012 said:
(I get the feeling English might not be januswon's first language ;) )
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Yeah I figured as much, that's why I added the little p.s in my post. :)

To be honnest I don't think its possible for the 360 to do worse than Xbox 1 in Japan, mainly because of the increased support there. But then again some were speculating that the Gamecube would sell more than the N64 overall just because it had more 3rd party support, and we all know how that turned out.
 
ghostface said:
Yeah I figured as much, that's why I added the little p.s in my post. :)

To be honnest I don't think its possible for the 360 to do worse than Xbox 1 in Japan, mainly because of the increased support there. But then again some were speculating that the Gamecube would sell more than the N64 overall just because it had more 3rd party support, and we all know how that turned out.
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That's pretty much the case. According to Magic Box in 2002 the Xbox sold 327k all year, in 2003 it sold 97k.
 
JackFrost2012 said:
Well, the first shipment of Xbox 1 to Japan literally never sold out--lots of people bought Xboxes several years after the fact to find one with a pre-launch manufacture date.
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Yes, like me!

/spites launch-dated Thompson-drive Xbox that was bought new from game store in Japan last year >_<
 
akiba02.jpg

Sellout!
 
Is it too obvious to give him a "Totally Xbox!" tag? Never has it been more appropriate.
 
Bah! This is all propaganda! MS sold out everything...Now, that the 360 is a success in Japan, maybe we should start a new thread about it.


Shame about DOA4 :(
 
ghostface said:
Yeah I figured as much, that's why I added the little p.s in my post. :)

To be honnest I don't think its possible for the 360 to do worse than Xbox 1 in Japan, mainly because of the increased support there. But then again some were speculating that the Gamecube would sell more than the N64 overall just because it had more 3rd party support, and we all know how that turned out.
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You know, I wouldn't be surprised if the 360 doesn't even come close to matching the sales of the first one. Compared to the original the Japanese gaming industry has declined overall, the price a fair bit higher, the launch line up is worse and the reputation of the xbox brand must be pretty bad. I know they've got a fair few major investments, but even the original box had things like Genma Onimusha and Jet Set Radio 2 but none of them sold well. I know there's been a lot of game announcements, but those are still just promises and the games on the ground aren't even up to the original box. You would expect them to do better, everyone is, but I have some nagging doubts that this could be a real embarrasment.
 
heidern said:
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if the 360 doesn't even come close to matching the sales of the first one. Compared to the original the Japanese gaming industry has declined overall, the price a fair bit higher, the launch line up is worse and the reputation of the xbox brand must be pretty bad. I know they've got a fair few major investments, but even the original box had things like Genma Onimusha and Jet Set Radio 2 but none of them sold well. I know there's been a lot of game announcements, but those are still just promises and the games on the ground aren't even up to the original box. You would expect them to do better, everyone is, but I have some nagging doubts that this could be a real embarrasment.
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But Sakaguchi... Blue Dragon... they will save the day!
 
That photo is accurate, I was there that morning. That's the big Akihabara launch about 5 minutes before the doors opened at 7:00 AM. 21 people were there. It was over in about 10 minutes. The shop had about 100-120 consoles on hand.

(people were coming in later in the day, however)
 
We know that Xbox 360 isn't going to be popular in Japan, but say if it was a 360 but MS reached an sgreement where Sega would put there name on it in Japan...do you think by name alone it would have sold more?
 
heidern said:
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if the 360 doesn't even come close to matching the sales of the first one. Compared to the original the Japanese gaming industry has declined overall, the price a fair bit higher, the launch line up is worse and the reputation of the xbox brand must be pretty bad. I know they've got a fair few major investments, but even the original box had things like Genma Onimusha and Jet Set Radio 2 but none of them sold well. I know there's been a lot of game announcements, but those are still just promises and the games on the ground aren't even up to the original box. You would expect them to do better, everyone is, but I have some nagging doubts that this could be a real embarrasment.
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I can totally see the same thing, but this time MS DOES have better Japanese support. Genma Onimusha was a late port of a PS2 game, and Jet Set Radio 2 was a sequel to a game that didn't sell great on a system that bombed.

This time MS has the creator of Final Fantasy working on 2 RPGs, one of which features Toriyama's art, and a fair bit of other support from Japanese companies that I see as superior to the originals. I don't think the 360 will do good by any means, but I can totally see it doubling the sales of the Xbox, as much as I can see it bombing.
 
Brisal73 said:
We know that Xbox 360 isn't going to be popular in Japan, but say if it was a 360 but MS reached an sgreement where Sega would put there name on it in Japan...do you think by name alone it would have sold more?
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I think they'd need to drop the Xbox name itself aswell. Give it a completely new name just like Genesis and Megadrive. But even then SEGA's name wouldn't give it much help.
 
Brisal73 said:
We know that Xbox 360 isn't going to be popular in Japan, but say if it was a 360 but MS reached an sgreement where Sega would put there name on it in Japan...do you think by name alone it would have sold more?
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It'd be an incredibly stupid move, seeing as how it would lock Sega's games to one platform.
 
909er said:
I can totally see the same thing, but this time MS DOES have better Japanese support. Genma Onimusha was a late port of a PS2 game, and Jet Set Radio 2 was a sequel to a game that didn't sell great on a system that bombed.

This time MS has the creator of Final Fantasy working on 2 RPGs, one of which features Toriyama's art, and a fair bit of other support from Japanese companies that I see as superior to the originals. I don't think the 360 will do good by any means, but I can totally see it doubling the sales of the Xbox, as much as I can see it bombing.
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Shouldn't the system sell itself on the first day?
 
Brisal73 said:
We know that Xbox 360 isn't going to be popular in Japan, but say if it was a 360 but MS reached an sgreement where Sega would put there name on it in Japan...do you think by name alone it would have sold more?
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associating Sega's name with the console that their games sell worse on ? Yup greatest idea ever
 
mckmas8808 said:
Shouldn't the system sell itself on the first day?
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Not if people don't want it. You can't force the Japanese people to like Xbox. They don't right now, and a more expensive upgrade isn't likely to instantly change that.
 
xsarien said:
Because Sega's games do SO well on the XBox.

(I have no idea if you're being sarcastic or not.)
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Sarcasm is most effective with deadpan delivery, but it has limited effectiveness on message boards.
 
heidern said:
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if the 360 doesn't even come close to matching the sales of the first one. Compared to the original the Japanese gaming industry has declined overall, the price a fair bit higher, the launch line up is worse and the reputation of the xbox brand must be pretty bad. I know they've got a fair few major investments, but even the original box had things like Genma Onimusha and Jet Set Radio 2 but none of them sold well. I know there's been a lot of game announcements, but those are still just promises and the games on the ground aren't even up to the original box. You would expect them to do better, everyone is, but I have some nagging doubts that this could be a real embarrasment.
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I think even the most pessimistic of us think the 360 will do better in Japan this time. Just having RR on day one makes this launch better. Does anyone here think it's going to destroy Sony? No. But do worse than the first one? No.

And I genuinely don't understand this sentence:
and the games on the ground aren't even up to the original box.
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SolidSnakex said:
That's pretty much the case. According to Magic Box in 2002 the Xbox sold 327k all year, in 2003 it sold 97k.
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who is that in your avatar?

Also, I hope that guy comes back, I was enjoying his posts. He is so blatantly clueless that it HAS to be on purpose. Nobody is that stupid.
 
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