This probably doesn't come as news to many, but Xbox is a huge failure in Japan. Let's not sugarcoat it. Let's not look at it "from a certain point of view." PC Pro has the latest sales figures and they give the impression that the defunct Sega Dreamcast console is probably selling better. Cultural issues certainly play a role in the bleak outlook. RPGs, the best-selling genre in the country, have been sparse for the big black box, and it probably didn't help that Bill Gates introduced the smaller Xbox controller in Japan by saying it was designed to take into account Asians' smaller hands. Still, the Xbox is Microsoft's first leap into the console business, and if they play their cards right, and secure the right content, then the Xbox Next might have a future in the Land of the Rising Sun.
