Japan: Xbox sales jump 800%

With the launch still two weeks away in the United Kingdom and the rest of the world awash in fresh new Xbox 360 smell, Japan is feeling the positive side effects in regards to the console being introduced to their market.

[TheTeam06]

Hotcakes?

If that's hotcakes, I wonder what the others are selling like. Because it still sold less than everything else (except the PS2).

But nonetheless, it's a good boost! It was a good combination of that and Monster Hunter that had them making the charts. Let's see how long they can keep this up.

[dangert12]

lol well done microsoft all the japanese wanted was somthing that looked like its not 2000000 years behind there tech now it looks more now-ish there getting on it lol but hey they still get better deals then us this is not fair dont buy it japan don't buy it :)

[sikbeta]

Bwahahahahahaa..... I KNEW IT, it was just a Matter of Time, Unbelievable lol

-> [ http://www.nintendoeverythi... ]

PS3 – 19,578
Wii – 19,115
Xbox 360 – 17,370

So it's more than clear, while x360 "sells like hotcakes", PS3 and wii Sell more than Hotcakes...

I bet this 1-Week sales spike got more to do with MH:FO than the new x360 Slim...

Edit:

And by the next week or so, when sales go back to normal = 2k/3k per week, You'll Not See a single Article about that....

[Nitrowolf2]

i think you guys are taking this Hotcakes things a bit to much
Yes the 360 did get outsold by the other 2 console but take a look at this
Xbox 360 – 2,060 from previous week and now its 17,370

i don't usually defend 360 (cause i love my PS3 so much)
but the term "Selling like Hotcakes" means they are flying off he shelves, selling very fast.

So yeah it isn't wrong to say that if previous week were so very very very low.

MHO is out this week for 360 soon so i am guessing that is reason for japan spike

[Triella]

Remind me how many US servicemen and their families are based in Japan ?

[evrfighter]

All this really does is shut down the argument that ps3 sales in Japan offset the loss for NPD.

[chrisnick]

2000 less than a slow week for ps3 and wii= hotcakes? that's just sad man.

[Anon1974]

Do we really need to be subjected to an article every single time the 360 has a temporary spike in sales in Japan. It seems like every single time we get a weekly spike from the 360 for some reason or another we get an article about "Oh! 360's sales turning around in Japan?"

It's not turning around in Japan. It never will turn around in Japan. It's been out 5 years and the Japanese haven't touched it. A slim version for the same price isn't going to turn their fortunes around now.

Ever heard of a "dead cat bounce"? Look it up.

[NecrumSlavery]

17K is good. The 360 usually sells 1-3k a month. This is a major improvement. Wonder what games sold big on 360? What games 17,000+ were bought as well

[evilmonkey501]

http://www.japanesepancakew...

[Hideo_Kojima]

Guys do you realize we are talking about JAPAN!

The home ground of Nintendo and Sony.

Microsoft will never be able to catch up with them in Japan but it is a major achievement to sell that much there anyway...

OFFTOPIC:

Sony should release another final slimmer version with the touch buttons and the shininess (by sacrificing a huge price drop for a smaller one) and brand it PS 3D.

That would give them another peak.

[PCnPS3Gamer]

as a gamer this means nothing to me. xbox 360 whether its shiny now still has lame dvd and can't produce games that look and play as good as uncharted 2, gow 3, gt5, infamous 2(man that game video was insane goty confirmed)or gt5 goty anyhow its going to be a ps3 game....dont worry xbox fans the 360 will get best shooter prob with halo reach lol

i dont care about sales i care about content, games, AAA exclusives, best motion controls, free online though i have playstation plus (wipeout hd is sweet), blu ray, reliable console. and no matter what these sales articles say for me the ps3 has all of the above and more and its only getting better whereas the 360 is only losing exclusives. and dvd tech is hurting the quality of games they produce.

games games games games > sales sales sales sales guys

[HolyOrangeCows]

"Microsoft still couldn’t get a leg up on any of the other console developers, with Sony managing to sell 19,578 Playstation 3′s, 23,257 PSP’s and even Nintendo got in on the action with 19,115 Wii’s exchanging hands. On top of the retail sales rankings? The Nintendo DSi reigned supreme selling 41,676 units"

If that's selling like Hot cakes in Japan, I guess the rest is selling like sushi in Japan.

[xxLuckyStrike]

LMAO....he said Sushi...give yourself a round of applause...

[kissmeimgreek]

I consider an 800% increase in sales selling like hot cakes

[diatom]

So if one kin phone is bought last week and 8 are bought this week, is it selling like hotcakes too?

[Fireseed]

You lost me at "even Nintendo got in on the action"

[Shadow Flare]

you know, i can't prove this at all, but i suspect a large portion of those sales are from people who already own a 360 and want to upgrade. I'm just saying that because since launch, 360 has sold like 2000 a month in japan. And suddenly the 360S has sold 17000. I dont think 17000 people in japan were waiting for built in wifi. I think a large portion of those sales are from people upgrading. And i think its a similar story around the world. We'll see if the effect lasts or not. I very much doubt it will in japan

[fr0sty]

actually it can be proven. people who buy new consoles buy games for those consoles, so if there is a boost in hardware sales, you can tell who bought a new one vs. a replacement by looking at the jump in software sales, which for xbox 360s is nowhere to be seen.

[MicroSony4Life]

but thats a new low even for you. Instead of giving MS a little credit you find some way to spin this.

We all know Japan is Nintendo and Sony land so need to convince people that MS is not doing good in Japan.

[Shadow Flare]

ok, sorry i'll give MS some credit.

Well done Microsoft. The 360 outsold the PS2 this week

[Bigpappy]

"Monster Hunter 360" is the number 1 seller in Japan. Shocking huh?

[Heisenberg]

lol! Since when is it low class to hypothesize why the 360 had a sales spike in Japan?

[SaiyanFury]

It looks like a lot of Japanese were waiting for some of the features in the 360 Slim including built in Wi-Fi. On top of that, the (no pun intended) monstrously popular Monster Hunter series debuted on the system. With any luck MS can keep up the momentum, but I wouldn't count on it. One or two months of 10k+ sales can't keep up with a few years of increased PS3/Wii sales. I really don't like to argue with sales numbers, but basing the 360's single month success on a couple of details seems kind of limited. Good for MS, I hope they can continue to move in Japan, it'll serve to foster competition over there in this generation of consoles. In that, we all win when developers are forced to compete and innovate.

[jammy_70]

Do they sell well then?

[evilmonkey501]

Okonomiyaki (pancake) is a Japanese food staple. They're not like American hotcakes. It's kinda like a tortilla...you just load crap onto it and wow..you got a taco..same diff.

[EvilBlackCat]

Its japan people...

so tell me people which western electronic product sell more than a japanese product in japan?

iPhone/iPod? NOT really

what else?

---------

Do you wanna sell a game in japan

* Create an RPG
* Make the principal character a woman or a "man" that look metrosexual and shy
* Put Dragons on it or Giant Enemy Crabs
* Give them clubs and swords
* And of course make the gals in the game show boobs and panties

and thats it you have a 85% hit

[baker_boi]

It's due to Monster Hunter dropping on the 360 in japan.

Monster Hunter moved those systems the same way the Wii got a boost off of Monster Hunter.

[TROLL EATER]

is monster hunter out?

[under taker 34]

they're making an improvement, guys over here need to leave the nitpicking alone for once.

[Sarcasm]

And in a couple more weeks it'll be right back down. lol

[SaxScrotumz]

Ain't that the truth...

[XxZxX]

It's a bait for you to click on Read full story links....

XBOX 360 still did pretty bad in Japan.

[beardpapa]

MS still giving out phat cheques? Why Capcom would put out a Monster Hunter game on the Wii, the 360 in Japan, and not on the PS3 is beyond my understanding.

[evilmonkey501]

Its called "money from Microsoft".

[morkendo]

selling like hot cakes in japan then ps3 an wii selling like FIRE!!
stay tune to next month sales decrease 800%

[sid4gamerfreak]

good for them

off topic: Netherlands beat Brazil!!! WOOT!! WOOT!!!!

[NYPunkster]

That's horrible!
"its sales in the previous week, which totalled just 2,060 units."

"However, it is important to put the numbers is perspective. Even with sales north of 17k the Xbox 360 was still unable to outsell the PS3 (19,578), PSP (23,257) and even the struggling Wii (19,115)."

[Consoldtobots]

I don't care if sales jump 1000%, the 360 HAS NO GAMES!!!
and that's not a troll, that's coming from someone who's had his 360 collecting dust for over a month now because it has no good games out that aren't over 2 years old.

[NewZealander]

im looking at getting a xbox 360 s when it releases here, but im interested to know what, if anything, is preloaded on the HDD when you get it, any full arcade games or demos? anyone whos got one pm me and let me know:)

[vhero]

Still less than PS3 though on the launch week of new model.. That is considered a failure in Japan no doubt by MS. They can't drop support of it in Japan though as if they did Japan devs would stop developing for it. The problem is if they don't sell plenty of consoles week in, week out they are gonna lose of a ton of cash. Of course when they talk about profits they only ever include US in there numbers.

Also didn't playstation slim numbers jump over 1000%??

[jeseth]

Even still, its good for MS. The redesign of the 360 is a good one I think. I still feel they should have put in a standard HDD so 360 consumers could swap to whatever size they want (250gb is pretty good size though for this gen).

The 360 Slim looks awesome.

[ClownBelt]

Just as I expected. Haha

I expect more of this articles to come.

[brazilianbumpincher]

its over dramatic articles like this that microsoft really dont need, it still sold the least out of the next-gen consoles and i can see it dropping by a huge margin next week.

[deadreckoning666]

Why are you complaining about a title? Must you people downplay everything Microsoft related? Geez. All he said ws hotcakes and people are losing their cool lol.

@below- Well, I don't see how the title is "dramatic", but whatever. Its funny. You say that the fanboy war is "stupid"...yet u go out of your way to point out ur prediction that 360 sales will drop by a huge next week AS WELL as mention that the 360 still sold the least out of the next-gen consoles.

Maybe its me..but I'm sensing a LITTLE hypocrisy there. We have TONS of Kanyes on this site. In every positive 360 article, theres always a PS3 fanboy to be like, "Yea, thats good and all..BUT, the PS3 iz like da bestest console ever" Don't know why people deny it, everyone knows what goes on here.

[brazilianbumpincher]

just normal humble journalism will help ease this stupid fanboy war and headlines like this or hiphopgamers ridiculous 'naughty dog to go multi' (even though their OWNED by sony dont help matters

EDIT: i mentioned it sold less still to show how over dramatic the article is,hotcakes would be wiping the floor with the wii not selling less than both next-gen consoles, and well have to see if my prediction for next week comes true which in point will prove we dont need over dramatic headlines which draw out comments like the ones above us

[Godmars290]

I except that next week, when sales drop by 50% and more, we wont hear a thing about it.

[R2D2]

Only time will tell my friend.

You still have to give MS a little credit for not giving up on Japan.

[BrokenAnarchy]

I'm pretty sure it was because of Monster Hunter Frontier Online not because of the new redesign.

http://www.nintendoeverythi...

http://www.gamespot.com/new...

[Hellas13]

Only 360 game on top 50 was Monster Hunter Online.So it's propably from that.

[vhero]

A calibration of the two no doubt.

[xxLuckyStrike]

PS3 fanboys fear and loathe to hear.....lol..

Edit:

They expect you not to report favorable numbers for the 360 S or dismiss it as flaimbait.

[Shadow Flare]

ok, we'll see how long this lasts in japan.....

[RememberThe357]

*Covers ears and closes eyes*

Lalalalalala

[Abriael]

There isn't much to hear. They still didn't manage to beat their competition even with a new model and one of the most popular franchises in the Japanese market.

It takes being some pretty rabid microsoft fanboys to try and spin this quite evident failure into a success.

Or a blogger looking for N4G oriented flamebait.

[sikbeta]

"This is exactly what....PS3 fanboys fear"

Hmmmm.... a [ONE WEEK] sales spike?

I'm assure you this sales got more to do with MH:FO and it's pretty lame considering the MH Franchise is sales Beast in Japan, no wonder MH:FO will be on the PS3 by the Next Month or so....lol

[Pennywise]

A one week sales spike that still lost to the PS3 by 2k. lol. Happy 4th all!

[playstation_clan]

sales decrease 99%

[Hank Hill]

LOL. The author is grasping for straws here.

[_EvilMonkey_]

I'm guessing the writer was hungry when he wrote this article. Hmmm.... Hotcakes

[evilmonkey501]

I prefer monkey brains...

[_EvilMonkey_]

monkey brains... hmmmm...

[CountDracula]

Don't you mean it sells like hot ds lites? XD

Selling a hotcake to a guy in Japan for 299.99 US would be very difficult.

[MaximusPrime]

o....k

remind me again 3 months after release

[ForROME]

69,480 if it keep that pace for the month, for xbox that is killer, for the market in general its still below average

[Acquiescence]

Some good news for Microsoft. They need it!

[R2D2]

Is it just me or does the new 360s look really sexy and slick - I am glad that they decided to go with the gloss finish which compliments my Fat PS3 very nicely.

[Karooo]

sold 150k lol

[Gene]

Ok let's if it can keep it up.

[gtsentry]

den dat means ps3 and the wii sell like hot cakes every week in japan,becuz they been sellin more den that every week

[chidori666]

17 k

"Xbox 360 Slim Sells Like Hotcakes in Japan"

really?

[Godmars290]

Well, considering it sold 2-3k the week before...

[ImmortalLegend]

I only expect this to be a temporary boost, but it's a boost nonetheless. I couldn't care less though since I don't live in Japan.

[Skynetone]

every week in japan

its too little to late for me buying a 360, if they sorted out prod two years back, i might have one by know, but its still good to see they finally sorted out the main problems of the 360

[Rai]

COME BACK (sarcasm)

[0oAngeluso0]

If they can at least keep pace in the other countries then of course they will grow their lead even more because of the United States. Up 800% is up 800% no matter how you look at it. I suspect it will sell well to respectively around the world but will of course sell best here in the states.

[TheBreezyBB]

once the Xbox go over 2000+ unit sold each week its deemed Hotcakes?!!

PS3 – 19,578
Wii – 19,115
Xbox 360 – 17,370

I'm no fanboy but, what a nice way to make something shine when the sun is really bright !!

[EXID]

well, to be fair, hotcakes probably don't sell very well in japan lol

[maddhatter123]

lmao so i guess the wii and ps3 are selling like a pokemon and mario combo pack with crack since they still beat the 360s.

[TEFL0N_D0N_81]

What saddens me is the lack of patriotism for an American product. What happened to supporting USA? It's that kind of mentality that foreign companies like BP and Toyota love. They can shit and piss and kill us Americans all they want, and we'll love them for it right? And before any of you question my patriotism, yes I'm prior military and served my country more than most of you ever will.

[MicroSony4Life]

4th July is right around the corner - shouldnt we be happy that an American company is actually doing good in Japan.

Microsoft might have bad ways in the eyes of some people but you have to realise that MS provides jobs for alot of Americans and the better the do the more jobs can be created.

Have a safe wonderful 4th of July guys.

[Gene]

I see what you are doing your not supporting your country if you don't support microsoft right? You must love ford chevy cheese burgers fox news gtfo people can like whatever they want to like not be a bias now that you served our country you can tell us how wrong we are and give us lessons on buying American goods.

[TEFL0N_D0N_81]

Not saying that at all. You're assuming out of context. We seem to have a blind hate for American made products which is fucked up. We're in tough economic times, and it's trying hard to bring some money back to our country. It's one thing to not support them, and a whole another level of bullshit when we blindly bash them like we do in the comments here. So MS is selling a bit well over there. Great for them. I hope they sell more. Happy 4th of July to you Gene. How you like em apples?

Let's call out some blind haters in this thread...
TheTeam06, dangert12, sikbeta, Wxer, HolyOrangeCows, Shadow Flare...
and that's just the chicken heads above my post. OH.. and you Gene. I'm glad I risked my life for you.

[Umbrella Corp]

Where did you serve if I may ask?I love America the idea of freedom but not the government and I dont understand your logic...Support Microsoft cause its American?Most Americans are stupid and obese,check out McDonalds and George W. Bush.Not to offend any Americans I am one myself but our country is so fucked Im getting out of here Canada is lookin pretty good...

[TEFL0N_D0N_81]

I've been to Japan. You know what the culture is over there? They support their country's products over imports. This is no assumption. This is how they are culturally, and I strongly envy them for that. We should do the same here.

I served in the Air Force by the way. These PS3 yuppies are the first to troll these posts bashing 360, and also the first to accuse 360 supporters of being fanboys. Disgusting huh? Anyways this subject's getting old, and finding neutral gamers to chat with is hard enough as it is.

[g0green]

wow, say you love america yet when things can tough you pussy out ot canada? no logic there

[Abriael]

Sorry, but this is silly as hell. Microsoft is a business. They don't work for "America", they work for themselves and their own revenue.
They produced basically nothing in the US, and happily pour their money into the pockets of Chinese manpower (which basiclaly means the Chinese government).

We're customers, and our only duty is to support the products that give us the best bang for our bucks/euros/yen/whatever.

And at the moment, while the Xbox 360 is a very valid console (and I have one), it's just not the console that does that.

Microsoft intentionally sold their customers a faulty product for years in order to gain a commercial advantage. I'm sorry, but that's enough for me not to have any admiration for them and for being very wary of their products in the future.

Can't care the less about the rest. I'm a consumer. I'll let the patriotic jibberjabber to you.

[jneul]

now put monster hunter frontier on ps3 slim and watch it sell 10x as many ps3's
x360s release is a fail ps3s ww release 500k x360s release 225,192k, spin that if you must!!

[kenjix]

Isselling like free snatch then right?

[DarkSpawnClone]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH did you see that guys face!! D: nightmares!!

[Wikkid666]

For MS that's really good.

But there was probably shortages there too... so maybe it will do well for a while longer.

It's know fact that previous Xboxs didn't sell well there do to the size and look more than anything. Maybe they like the look now? I'm sure there is a ton of discounted titles available there too.

[PSjesus]

Not Hot Cake,Fail article is failure.....

[huga_muga]

Xbox 360 was still unable to outsell the PS3 (19,578), PSP (23,257) and even the struggling Wii (19,115).

[N4PS3Fanboys]

That's because Japan doesn't like to buy American products. In the US, where people don't only buy products from their own country, the 360 outsold the PS3 by 3 to 1 this week, and the Wii by 2 to 1. LOL!

Once the 360 S releases in Europe, it will be pretty much the same situation there as the US.

PS3 fanboys have officially lost all of their arguments against the 360. The 360 no longer suffers from the RROD, it has built-in Wi-Fi, it has a bigger hard drive then the PS3 at the same price, it is outselling the PS3 not only in the US, but worldwide, and PSN now has a paid service as well.

[NoOoB101]

You got proof? because I don't think there's a single article about how much has sold. Hmm..sounds like you pulling numbers from you behind. Also outsold the wii by 2;1? LMAO. WOW. good job bud.

[Abriael]

PSN has an OPTIONAL paid service. "optional" being the keyword. You can still play online to your heart content without paying a dime. On the other hand the xbox 360 forces you to pay 1/6th of the full price of the console each year in order to enjoy something that should be part of the purchase price of each game (purchase price from which Microsoft already gets quite sizable royalties).

And you forgot the fact that the 360 still has and will always have an extremely limiting media. The DVD is limiting and will always limit the quality of games on 360, sad but true.
6 Gigabytes a disk are, unfortunately, quite small for today's top games.

[jonli1]

least give xbox 360 some type off credit remember their in the land of the rising sun where is hard for any american companies too thrive so all u sony fanboy we know u guys want sony to be the only game console but u know what i glad a least one american company is trying so please give credit where credit is do.

[blazBlue]

*snorts out a laugh*

Hotcakes. Wow, really?

[J-Smith]

Monster Hunter game LOL

[Masta Kaos]

This hotcake trend is goin 2 flop next week friday.....dey shud hv sky rocket'd....sumthing like 80k units.

[November 9 2004]

u mad? credit is given to MS,should be interesting to see if it can maintain anything better than previously.

[karan8624]

If someone had a bakesale and hotcakes were invovled, I dont think they would sell THAT much

[Ronster316]

160,000+ sales in USA.

360 S not even available in Europe yet.

360 outsold PS3 by 100,000 this week even without releasing the *S* in Europe.

Tough times ahead for Sony, plain and simple.

[saimcheeda]

u suck in maths and accounting!

[jneul]

don't bother they are too busy being a ms slave

[Henry Cain]

WOW! The 360 will not outsell the PS3 worldwide. Your as funny as this article. When the PS3 slime came out it did like a mill within a month, now thats hotcakes.

[hiredhelp]

http://www.1up.com/do/newsS...

The full Media Create hardware sales figures follow:

* DSi LL -- 41,676
* PSP -- 23,257
* PS3 -- 19,578
* Wii -- 19,115
* Xbox 360 -- 17,370
* DSi -- 17,306
* DS Lite -- 5,209
* PS2 -- 1,530
* PSP go -- 845

[Otheros00]

Nice title stealth edit. /s
original source: http://www.ripten.com/2010/...
nice source stealth edit. /s

[sasukeftw]

not trying to be a fanboy or troll or whatever,but as long as gt5 exists,the 360 will never outsell the ps3 in japan or the whole world.

[hiredhelp]

OOHHHH LOW BLOW THERE. i like it.

[ReBurn]

Pretty good for Japan. Not setting the world on fire, but pretty good.

[Spawn-KING]

Imagine at TGS Sony announce a price cut .PS3 $249.99 . What would happen ?

[DFresh]

One thing that I find that's really ironic about this article is that they say Xbox 360 is selling like hot cakes yet every other console still leads in Japan.

Glad to see Xbox 360 Slim is selling well but I bet you most of those buyers are previous 360 owners hoping to that this new model of Xbox 360 model won't have any hardware problems this time around.

Feel free to disagree but a lot of my friends who have had older Xbox 360 consoles have went out and bought the Xbox 360 Slim.

Just proves my point.

Now if Microsoft can actually get some good exclusives that aren't kiddy Kinect games then maybe they might appeal in the years to come.

[Cylon451]

So that means they sold 8 XBOX 360's this week in Japan?

[adamx]

800% lmao doesnt seems so big once you realise how low the numbers were before.

[SephireX]

A 800% increase! Wow! It looks like 8 more 360s have been sold in Japan. Now there are a total of 9. Yay.

[hiredhelp]

uts yen noe yay.

[AngryTypingGuy]

Awesome! Hopefully this is the beginning of MS actually being competitive in Japan.

[N4BmpS]

Well the sales went up in Japan that's what matters most to MS, not many in Japan buy American products soooo. Not trying to offend anyones 360 fanboy ego but the 800% might range between 8000 or 10,000 extra xbox's sold. I want to reiterate, that is a good thing.

[Demarco156]

TAKE THAT PS2!!!

[Karum]

Unless those kind of numbers are sustained over a longer period of time it's not anything to crow about.

[Dannehkins]

That's incredible good. However, most hardware iterations will cause a sales surge just because they're brand new. I'll be looking out for how it can last for, because that's all that matters.

[PLAYstar]

jump up 800% and only 17K!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! What a joke.. Do I need to remind the Xbots about the "ITS OVER 9000% INCREASE"? The true definition of Hotcakes selling ONLY ON PLAYSTATION3!

[Pika-pie]

So this week they sold 16 consoles instead of 2. Impressive!

[MORGiON]

Christ you fanboys are a bunch of twats.
The spike would be due to MH, yes it's that simple.

To the others who thinks all Americans should support the xbox 360 even with it's stupidly high failure rate out of blind patriotism.

If you want to be patriotic then expect higher standards from Microsoft, their American product is being sold world wide. Not a good ambassador for American products.

Or you could watch some Top Gear episodes where they review American cars. mmm yeah they are really impressed with American build quality...

[Theonik]

Couldn't have said it any better.
+bubbles

[saimcheeda]

if the game had been released for the PS3 or Wii, maybe even the PSP and how much sales increase would that have caused!

[HarryM]

This is a great accomplishment on Microsoft's part.

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

It's official. The 360 is outselling the ps3 worldwide. I told you so!!!! The ps3 slim had a good run. Now it's Microsofts turn. The 360S is taking over. I told you!!!!!!!!!! :)

[bjornbear]

its not outselling =/ sorry to break it to you

but please, don't go kill youself! it isn't worth it!

[jsc249jobal]

The xbox 360 has more units sold worldwide, but year on year comparative sales has the ps3 ahead of the 360....so you choose your side I guess, I will be playing my games =)

[MonopolyRSV]

Damn, I thought the Japanese were smarter than this.

[jneul]

it's americans living in japan buying these(for upgrades) I bet you anything, Japenese know the x360 is not reliable and would not touch it with a 10ft bargepole

[memphis2]

uh 800% percent increased in sales?? way over exaggerated! I don't think so, if it was 800% increased says then why is it still behind the sony and nintendo? The title should have been 360 increased in sales over japan.

[bjornbear]

so...this is good news, but not good enough

[jsc249jobal]

With PS3, PSP, and Wii, when Monster Hunter came out, the hardware push was huge and outsold everything else, not 17,000 and only outside the PS2....just saying.

[wariofart]

This is still great for Microsoft, even if it doesn't faze the other two companies. Slow and stead wins the race, just look at the PS3 in America.

[GigaGaia]

800% of close to nothing is still very small.

[Jason143]

Thank monster hunter not microsoft. the game sells units. Period. Look at the millions of psps and ps2s it sold and now wiis over there.

[HaVoK308]

They are jumping the same reason PS3 sales jumped in the USA. People already had a 360 for several years and when the PS3 Slim was released it gave those people an opportunity to own one. Thats what I did and I bet many would be surprised just how many people own both. People already had the PS3 in Japan and now the 360 Slim releases giving them an opportunity to purchase it and get a good package for price. The world has a Bang4Buck mentality and it makes perfect sense to own both consoles when the price and time is right.