Japan completely sells out of Xbox 360 hardware

so I guess ToV is good?? lol, I'm thonkin bout pickin it up this Tuesday when it comes out

Thankyou for linking to the letter, I was able to practice my Japanese.

It was very interesting especially when it said that Sony could suck on Master Chiefs helmet.

In before comment about selling out of launch consoles.

I saw this on IGN, and I also saw that there is a new 360 d-pad redesign! FTW! So, MS DOES listen! :)

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/900/900487p1.html

All 30 Xbox 360s were sold out.

Just kidding. I kid because I love.

I have to admit, I didn't even think this would happen.

Wait, they are out of Arcade as well?
They never sold out of Arcades.

I just hope this trend continues with Infinite Undiscovery and Star Ocean and then what if all of a sudden they wake up and say "hey, Gears of War 2 IS kickass!" lol, that would be nice.

And the shocking news just keeps coming.

Interesting... The only Tales game I've played for real was GC's Symphonia, I really liked it, but it was not a system seller in any way. I downloaded Vesperia demo but honestly JRPG's demos are never very exciting. Maybe I'll get to Vesperia someday, but right now, I'm too caught up into Lost Odyssey (yeah, I now I cound find time to devote to it...)

Thats impressive considering. I wouldn't expect this to continue outside of other future releases of exclusive JRPGs. MS sure sounds like they're learning their lessons! I hope Namco-Bandai gets more credit for this!

This really just goes to show how very little Microsoft knows the Japanese market. Everyone and their dog in Japan predicted Vesperia would sell like crazy... But instead of pushing it or even readying more consoles (It was a given they`d sell a lot - preorders of the console+game pack were full within days of the preorder period starting), they just sat back.

No big commercials. No huge in-store displays.
Both things that were done for Halo and Bioshock - both games that don`t really appeal all that much to the Japanese market.

Come on Microsoft - take a look at the market!! It`s not hard to see what is going to sell! There was so much opportunity to market this and sell more - or even just have enough consoles available to retailers to cover the demand... But nope, a wasted chance.

I'm pretty sure Squeenix haven't learn their lesson.....

Japan likes them some RPGs. Who knew?

Obviously, Microsoft doesn't know (or care) about the Japanese market. Have they learned anything from this?
If they want money, and I know that they do, then hopefully the answer is yes.

I'm pretty sure Square Enix is going to see from this event that XBOX 360 can attract JRPG players enough to release FFXIII on XBOX 360 in Japan. Official word has been changed on various occasions in the past so don't count out that possibility. Namco even has doubts that Tekken 6 will be PS3 exclusive, which would be a real shocker for fans of the series. We've gotten to a point where we can truly say, "Never say never," about anything and everything in the gaming industry. God bless.

If it worked for dumb Wii owners, it's guarenteed to work for dumb 360 owners..

CLUE: They have a big warehouse full of them, they will dropfeed supplies to stores to make it look like the 360 ius desirable in Japan, becuse the shelves are always empty...

this possibly means that the japs that buy the 360's will buy other rpg's on the console, and might cause a spur in rpg's for the 360 (but thats just my dream)