Now a quote from a guy who works in a store. (translated by me.. hihi)
"I work in one of Swedens biggest toy shop (Americans might call it electronics stores), and I have some nice facts now when the first day of the Xbox release is over. I can only say (as a comparison) that we got 12 PS2s on its release. They were sold in 35 seconds. (We did not allow preorders) And now when the Xbox was released we got 60 units. Neither this time did we allow any preorders.
We did not sell any Xboxes today!
Not one single phone call or one single question about the system at all. For me (who thought we would have a record breaking sale today) this day is a major flop. That’s what I think the xbox will be.. One big flop. Not that its a bad system, but people do not want to shell out 5000SEK ($470) when you can get a PS2 for 3000SEK ($290)"