Xbox 360 sees 157% sales growth in Japan this year

by Alexander Sliwinski on Oct 20th 2008 8:00PM

We're starting to get comfortable with the formerly apocalyptic notion that the Xbox 360 is finding ~~success~~ a niche in Japan. Famitsu Marketing data (via GameDaily) shows that year-over-year growth of the console has been an impressive 157% during the first seven months of this year.

Of course, with a fairly low Xbox 360 user base to begin with in Japan, a large percentage increase in sales doesn't mean much. The console has sold 748,992 and Microsoft hopes to hit the million milestone "as soon as possible." The console has seen significant sales spikes this year, thanks to Tales of Vesperia and Infinite Undiscovery. We've placed the Japanese lifetime unit sales after the break for comparison.

Lifetime unit sales (source: Famitsu):

DS Lite: 17,080,747
PSP: 10,181,888
DS: 6,449,206
Wii: 6,826,612
PS3: 2,369,484
Xbox 360: 748,992

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Tags: japan, microsoft, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (51)

I think the real surprise here is that the 360 has managed to attain a third of Sony's sales.

If anybody had told me they would reach that point after this long in "the console wars", I'd have laughed at them outright.

Good for them. Gives them a fighting chance for their next system and I'd wager that next system is no further than about 2 years from launch knowing Microsoft.

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