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Japan Week4: DOA4 sells 12,300 Xbox 360 Consoles
>> Gamasutra.com posted the new M-Create hardware sales for the week of 26 december 2005 - 01 January 2006:
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Also of note is the delayed release of Dead or Alive 4 at number thirteen in the charts, with less than 61,000 units sold. A significant proportion of these sales went to existing Xbox 360 owners, with hardware sales only doubling to 12,300 units. This suggests the title may only appeal to a relative hardcore of users, with the various Mistwalker role-playing games now looking like the only obvious chance for Microsoft to gain real ground in Japan.
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With the release of DOA4 the Xbox 360 HW sales doubled compared to last week, but still far off the PS2 (78,646 units) and even the GameCube sold a bit better with 12,579 units. Only the original Xbox did worse with 121 units.
Read More: gamasutra.com
UPDATE: There's an interesting article about the launch of the Xbox 360 in Japan on 4colorrebellion.com:
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McDonalds knew that some of its tastes would not appeal to the Japanese so they changed their menus. Along with the standard Big Macs and fries they also have Teriyaki burgers, fried shrimp burgers, and other things for the Japanese pallet. They didn't force the American tastes on the Japanese and thus, they thrived. Now look at the Japanese Xbox 360 launch lineup. First person Shooters, sports and car games. Games that sell really well in America but other than the car games are not to the Japanese taste. Had they launched with RPGs, simulation games, party games, gambling games and fighters, they might have done a whole lot better. McDonalds changed their company for the Japanese taste. Microsoft tried to change the Japanese taste for their company.
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Read More: 4colorrebellion.com
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