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Blue Dragon Pushing 360 Bundles in Japan
1up is reporting that Blue Dragon 360 bundle pre-orders are selling fast in Japan. Maybe, finally, Microsoft has a product that will get the Japanese market on its side. From the article: "According to one retailer, Microsoft is planning to produce 100,000 of the Blue Dragon hardware bundles, and 10% of these will be the limited set with all the cool Blue Dragon merchandise we mentioned. With all the Toriyama fans in Japan, it might not be surprising to hear that these 10,000 limited sets are being snapped up pretty quickly, but hey, we're talking about the Xbox 360 in Japan -- the machine has been struggling to sell more than a thousand units each week recently. At the end of the first day of pre-orders, most retailers are now sold out of the limited set."
...not because the 360 has changed, but that reality has set in that PS3 will have fewer features for a higher price.
Actually, I as a 360 owner, I'd have to say there there's one important area in which the X-Box beats the 360 hands down. Specifically, the X-Box was pretty damn bug free. Why? Because Microsoft had specifically stated that Live could not be used for updates. I never had a single X-Box game crash on me. 360 games, on the other hand. Ppfft. While I wouldn't give up Dead Rising, Just Cause or any other of my 360 games up, there have been several problems. Ignoring the red lights issue, several games such as 'call of duty' were released with significant bugs that needed to be fixed. Same for Dead or Alive. Both had to be patched over X-Box Live. And the 'disc read' errors are definitely not overheating related. They're down to cache problems on the hard disk. How do I know this? Because I got a reproducable error in Dead Rising, and it didn't go away till I formatted the HD and transferred my save back off a memory card. I still think my 360's a great console, but I wanted buggy games, I'd use a PC. As for this being the game that brings the 360 success in Japan? Er, no. I'm expecting a complete rerun of the X-Box 1 situation. The only thing that really made headway with the original X-Box was cutting the price. And even that didn't have a prolonged impact.