The slide in Xbox 360 sales, which seems to herald the end of its Japanese resurgence, continues with the news that the console now occupies the most humiliating spot of all in the Japanese retail hierarchy: the wagon.
Games relegated to the cut-price wagon are usually only the most the severely overstocked or poorly selling, but there seem to be A-list titles in abundance in Sofmap’s latest sale.
Just what this latest slight implies for the console’s retail prospects seems fairly clear…
Via Ore-teki.
Damn, I don’t think the store can be blamed at this point.
good maybe i can get a new one for cheap. come on price cuts
360’s been failing since ’05 right out of the box with RRD. Microsoft should be sued by everyone that’s gotten RRD. M is knowingly selling faulty merchandise. They should have been able to fix this prob well within it’s 4 years in existence! It was called next gen but uses last gen tech. A disc tray, standard DVD roms and models that don’t have an HDD?! That limits what game developers can do with their games knowing that not everyone has an HDD with their 360. Metal Gear series creator said when MG4 goes to 360, it will take 3-4 discs. FFXIII will probably take 4-5! Micro-transactions are a pain too! That $60 360 game 3 years from now might end up costing you $90 after buying some levels here some new weapons there, paying yearly internet fees, etc. My cousin’s 360 has already been sent away for repairs of RRD and he had to wait 2 months
Thing is most Xbox fare are more western aimed than japanese aimed outside of the cultured market of jRPGs there isn’t much to draw the japanese in contrast to the other two systems.
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Think about this for a moment… There are already 1 million 360’s sold in Japan. That means 1 million people will buy FF13. Everybody in Japan loves RPGs. SquareEnix is very smart.Smart indeed.
square enix said they wont release a version of FF13 for xbox360 in japan.