Xbox 360 sold out in Japan

by James Ransom-Wiley on Aug 20th 2008 2:30PM

Go ahead, rub your eyes and read the headline again. The Japanese are so gaga over Tales of Vesperia that they've gone and bought up every last Xbox 360, Engadget Japanese's Ittousai reports to Joystiq. Sold out!

Granted, Microsoft isn't exactly pumping units into Japan, but even this sudden surge in demand has knocked the console manufacturer square off its feet. A statement on the Japanese Xbox.com (clumsy translation) explains that new shipments of the standard model won't arrive at retail until September, followed by shipments of the Elite and Arcade SKUs sometime later. But by then, pigs may have landed and Hell could be all thawed out.

[Via Engadget Japanese; Thanks Ittousai!]

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Tags: hell-freezes-over, japan, pigs-fly, tales-of-vesperia, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (107)

The 360 is superior even in the land of the rising sun, What a blow to the face of fanboys.

The world implodes in 5...4...3...

"Give them a cutesy JRPG featuring homogenous, androgynous anime characters with severely limited in-game choices, little freedom, and cinemas that outlast gameplay and they scoop it up in droves."

Um, have you actually ever played a "Tales" game. The last one in the series that came out on the PS2 was actually pretty good and received fairly good acclaim from critics. I'll conceed to your complaints about somewhat hetero-lackin designs for the male lead, but most of your criticisms don't really ring true. Regardless of the faults, it's still an engrossing game. The Tales series does have a following and I think their is good reason for that. It's no Final Fantasy XII granted, but I think it's somewhat of an overlooked gem.