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[Jonnyram]

http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A41GHC/ref=gw_580435_txt_2/249-4133003-5025958

Amazon has sold out of pre-orders and will not take any more until they know of a second shipment. Could be a good sign, but I don't want retailers to have the same problems the US stores are having, with MS not supplying enough units to fulfil pre-orders :O

 

[Wario64]

wow, it's even on sale

bomba

 

[Uncle Dukey]

It seems to still allow me to put it into the cart...

 

[Jonnyram]

You can add it to your cart, but it won't come on launch day

 

[john tv]

They got three in stock, sold out the whole batch in a week. It's hot!!

 

[DCharlie]

.... you lie! they only had 2 !

 

[Deg]

They might have broken records for the region.

 

[DCharlie]

It's the pull of the numbered FF games!

and the hard body booby fest of DOA4!

 

[Ceb]

Wait, is Amazon a good indication of sales again?

 

[Jonnyram]

No. It never was.

 

[cvxfreak]

I wonder how much Xbox360 will sell this year in Japan. It's gotta be less than 200,000, or 250,000 at most.

I wonder if even the GC and GBASP/GBm will be outselling it in 2006.

 

[bloke]

I'd say it's probably case of low stocks than X360 being a hot item, if it sells more than 150k this year in Japan I'd be surprised.
There was article about amazon X360 sales on famitsu.com, seems every other person that bought hw also bought DOA4 with it, every third bought RR6.

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/2005/11/18/103,1132287750,45765,0,0.html

 

[Hurricane_Chris]

WOW! If you look around you can find new X360 games for cheaper prices than those of new games for current-gen systems. What's going on with this pricing?

 

[ThirdEye]

http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A41GHC/ref=gw_580435_txt_2/249-4133003-5025958

Amazon has sold out of pre-orders and will not take any more until they know of a second shipment. Could be a good sign, but I don't want retailers to have the same problems the US stores are having, with MS not supplying enough units to fulfil pre-orders :O

It's NOT sold out AFAICS. Where are you looking at??

http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A41GHC/

EDIT: and it says it's going to come on the launch day (12/10). WTH?

発送可能時期：この商品の発売予定日は2005/12/10です。ただいま予約受付中です。

 

[DCharlie]

"発送可能時期：この商品の発売予定日は2005/12/10です。ただいま予約受付中です。"

... err.. my japanese sucks but isn't that basically just saying "this goes on sale on the 2005/12/10... we are taking reservations" rather than telling you you will get a machine?

isn't this :
"次回入荷分が確定次第、再開します。"

the line saying "you'll get one the next time machines are available" ?

I'll leave it to Cormacaroni or Jonnyram, given i'm bottom of the class in Japanese...

 

[Hurricane_Chris]

initial # of units 100% assured has been sold out. they explicitly mention the pre-installed FF11 beta so that may have something to do with 'brisk' (that's prolly the wrong word to use here) sellouts of reservations.

 

[COCKLES]

They got three in stock, sold out the whole batch in a week. It's hot!!

Giive MS their dues. They've already beaten the Xbox figures by 50% :lol

 

[ThirdEye]

initial # of units 100% assured has been sold out. they explicitly mention the pre-installed FF11 beta so that may have something to do with 'brisk' (that's prolly the wrong word to use here) sellouts of reservations.

It's just a notice that they will shut out further preorder of the FF11 bundled model when it gets certain amount of preorders, and will resume when additional stock becomes available if such shortage occurs.
i.e. Xbox 360 is not sold out in Amazon as of now, let alone the limited FF11 bundled model.