Japanese Xbox launch predictions

Anyone?

I predict that on the eve of the Xbox launch in Japan, Microsoft will ship an unprecidented amount of consoles hoping to meet what they think will be a big demand and put forth a strong showing. Unfortunately, Godzilla appears and crushes Tokyo. Microsoft sets the record for least amount of consoles sold in their opening week due to the high death toll and general lack of interest.

Xboxes sold: 2

*groan*

No No wait I know Bill screws it up and forgets Japan has a diffrent language and all the people of japan can\'t read what the box says and they walk right by. :eek:

too bad 90% of japanese already know how to read english
thier high schools require them to learn like 3 languages

Originally posted by mm
too bad 90% of japanese already know how to read english
thier high schools require them to learn like 3 languages

And requires the teen girls to wear revealing sexy uniforms. :cool:

Xbox just got delayed untill March?

See.

Originally posted by mm
too bad 90% of japanese already know how to read english
thier high schools require them to learn like 3 languages

not true, I say that 30% or less speak and read english, some other 30% can understand it slightly and the rest just plain cant

trust me, Ive been there and it can be hard to get around

I think about 25.000 xbox will be sold in the first two days or so, no more

I\'ll make a prediction if Enix makes an announcement.  Until then, it\'s all just heresay.

trust me, Ive been there and it can be hard to get around

well of course not.  yer in japan, so everything will be in japanese

"when in rome......"

The first in line to get one puts his back ouit trying to carry it home, he ends up in hospital and has to sell his newly bought X box to cover the Hopsital Charges....

i am only J/k:clown:

i think it will sell but i think it will be at a far slllllloooooooowwwwwweeeeeerrrrr rate than in the Good old U S of A.

I predict it will go over about as well as an O\'Henry bar thrown into a crowded swimming pool.




A few braves soles will take a bite and find out it isn\'t quite so much a turd as it looks. The vast majority will remain wary.

[GmanJoe]

Japanese market reps prefer to sell cute Pokemon-like things which the Japanese seem to gobble up. The PS2 looks like a damn stereo amp that seem to mold right in with most people\'s entertainment system. But the Xbox....it\'s certainly not cute and adorable nor tiny.

who knows? If Sony plans its strategy right, it\'ll release Virtua Fighter 4 when Xbox launches. And VF4 is the Final Fantasy of fighting games in Japan.

My prediction is that it will do slightly better than the GC originally did

Originally posted by Metal_Gear_Ray
not true, I say that 30% or less speak and read english, some other 30% can understand it slightly and the rest just plain cant

trust me, Ive been there and it can be hard to get around

I think about 25.000 xbox will be sold in the first two days or so, no more

From what I\'ve heard, most children learn the English language in school.  People that are under the age of like 25 or so can read and write in English pretty well, but people older than that didn\'t take English in school.  Most people can\'t speak English though because they don\'t have very many English speakers over there to learn from.  But I bet if you write to them in English, a lot of them would be able to understand you.