Survey Sees Tough Times for 360 in Japan

GamesIndustry.biz is reporting that a survey recently conducted by Japanese news agency C-News would tend to suggest that the Xbox 360 will encounter consumer resistance when it is launched in Japan. From the article: "The poor showing for the Revolution is perhaps understandable, given that Nintendo has released only sketchy outline details regarding the console so far - but the figure for the Xbox 360 will come as a disappointment to Microsoft, which has focused heavily on the Japanese market in recent months." GameDailyBiz has a look at the survey as well, concentrating on the PS3's popularity.

Comments

For all the hype

[theREALMcCoy]

Micrsoft spews about their video game division, the Xbox is still a distant second in the US and tied for second with Nintendo world wide. It should come as no surprise that there is little to no interest for the Xbox360 in Japan, there has been very little interest in the original Xbox everywhere.

microsoft knows this

[hammeredpeon]

interviews with ballmer have him saying things like "sony will win japan, we plan on winning europe and america."

they might try to focus on them just in the off-chance they can get a decent market share, but nobody's kidding themselves about microsoft being able to win the war in japan.