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« on: February 21, 2002, 04:49:55 PM »
ill get more excited if they pass 1 million units in 10 days

untill then, *shrug*
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« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2002, 05:08:33 PM »
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Ah.. Look at the dates of the pics peps :)
Tsk tsk.

gamespot.com/gamespot/images/screenshots/2000_3/00_0303_vg_wait/screenshot_screen002.jpg

2000-3(march) - the month Sony sold 1 million PS2\'s

I could only find one of the pics.. Look here..
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« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2002, 05:29:00 PM »
I found the rest here.. Nice try pstwo.. Or shall I call you, Xboxgamers?

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« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2002, 04:41:35 PM »
LMAO

GC launch barely had anyone outside



i hope the Xbox does real well in Japan and Europe



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« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2002, 05:05:09 PM »
LMAO, pstwo, you just get more and more stupid each day

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« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2002, 05:11:17 PM »
in case anyone was wondering, those pics are from the PS2 launch, someone at Gaming-Age was playing a practical joke, and pstwo fell for it (anyone surprised..?  not me)

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« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2002, 05:28:20 PM »
for shame...  for shame...
brother, can u spare a nanner?

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« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2002, 05:33:07 PM »
Quote
>“Japanese gamers are among the most
>sophisticated in the world, and Xbox is the
>future-generation game system that matches their
>sophistication, fires their imagination and
>tests their skills,” Gates said, as he greeted
>the first gamers in Japan to buy Xbox.



ever see a chimp roll his eyes?  well....

:rolleyes:
brother, can u spare a nanner?

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« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2002, 05:38:40 PM »
:laughing:  I got FOOLED again!!!  I hate the internet!!


I found the real Japan Xbox launch!  :D





Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates shakes hands with Atsushi Ishizaka of Kanagawa, Japan who was the first person in Japan to purchase the Xbox video game system, February 22, 2002 in Tokyo. Gates came to Tokyo to take promote the Xbox game system that went on sale for the first time in Japan February 22. REUTERS/Jeff Christensen



KojiIto report
i got no 14280.

and a cap
and some gloves
and a collapsable seat (?)

Close to 1,000 people i\'d guesstimate - we were numbers 410-416 in the
"plebs" queue - the "Meet Bill Gates" queue seemed to be full of people
"with contacts"

Different feeling to the Gamecube launch - which was totally dead.
Then again, Aki was the centre of attention for that.

Pre-emptively, the pictures that show up wont be able to show the full
extent of the queues as we were line up a stairwell - stretching up 5
floors.
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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2002, 05:40:15 PM »
That\'s pretty funny.  Pretty pathetic too.  Oh well, we\'ll see how popular it is when the sales numbers come out.  However, as it was once said, this console "race" is a marathon, not a quick 1 year sprint.  We\'ll see how great x-box is a year from now.  Even the Dreamcast sold out at launch in Japan, I don\'t see why the X-Box would be any different.
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« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2002, 06:05:12 PM »
Got more:






Morning Shinjuku -- It is being begun to move a town. The row report of the usual practice which does not go the salaried worker &OL who goes to a company to contemptuous glance if compelled.
Good morning. The day of Xbox on February 22 done at last. The miserable situation of Shinjuku of midnight is coverage group C (one person) representation 3 ‚­‚· CHU which takes charge of Shinjuku at 6:00 in the morning fresh in memory. Is the sequence of a row seen sure enough? Individually, it is ‚³ although not expected at all. Kana which will go also in a sauna early morning if ‚Ü and nobody are. I went out in ‚Á‚Ä and the light feeling. First of all, it went to the YODOBASHI camera and Sofmap of a west entrance.



More here:




February 22, Xbox sale that day. Shibuya TSUTAYA had already become a large crowd of people from early morning. The procession which surround Shibuya TSUTAYA with circumference is 300 or more persons. A numbered ticket is distributed from last night, if the countdown event by Microsoft is held, it is, and many mass communications and curious onlookers also gather. Remarkable climax was shown the whole place.
And when it turns around a little 6:00 a.m., chief [ the Microsoft chairman and ] software architect, Mr. Bill Gates, appears. The ring of mass communications was overcome by smiling expression, and it entered into TSUTAYA. Expectation of the user who has stood in a line grows.

And from 6:25, a countdown event starts still more. A specially built stage is established in the first floor of TSUTAYA, and Mr. り appears whether it is the true pan of Mr. Yasuhiko Akasaka who acts as a chairman, and talent in the place where about 100 general visitors came in. then, the culture convenience store club president, Mr. Muneaki Masuda, who manages TSUTAYA -- a stage -- going up -- "-- early in the morning -- since -- such many visitors -- gathering -- I have you -- thank you, it greeted as "

And when turning around 6:30, the special guest, Mr. Bill Gates, appears still more! When the visitor in the hall called as "Mr. Bill Gates" by all the members, it was led to the voice, and Mr. Bill Gates was being [ the thing ] exciting and waiting to appear and to be able to meet you towards the user who gathered "this morning with the steps carried out calmly. It rises early and greets as thank you." It said, "Xbox sale in Japan is the revolution of a video game, and it is such a historical day that you may call it the "mile stone" today."

Then, Mr. YOSHIKI of a musician is to a stage as one more person\'s guest. In the hall is the further climax to an appearance of "Xbox" and the special guest who is "X JAPAN" origin and who does not expect although it was the appearance which connects and comes out X. Mr. YOSHIKI comments about Xbox "Although played now, its recording does not progress and is troubled by favor." Moreover, it touched on that Xbox was 5.1ch surround correspondence, and the comment in character with [ saying "whether music is good" ] a musician were told.

If it continues, Mr. Bill Gates and Mr. YOSHIKI play a match against what in a game! It extracts by performing an EKISHI vision match in the race game "Project Gotham" of Microsoft, and the match of つ抜かれつ is developed. a result -- a slim margin -- Mr. Bill Gates -- winning -- Mr. YOSHIKI -- the valve of defeat by "whether you are a pro truly" Mr. Bill Gates was saying, "Since this game set favorite CD to BGM and played it, was [ possibly ] Mr. YOSHIKI good in playing covering its own CD?"

While carrying out so like this, the needle of a clock will approach still more in 7:00, and countdown will start. The Microsoft managing director, Mr. Hirohisa Oura, who was watching by the stage side till then, and Mr. Ata 親市, the representative director president, also go up to a stage, and they participate in countdown from 10 seconds before. And sale of Xbox began with the call of count zero. The ceremony that the visitor of the first person to arrive is handed in a Xbox main part from Mr. Bill Gates on a stage is also performed, and excitement in the hall is the climax. Moreover, the situation did not have few people who project also on the screen of the TSUTAYA-QFRONT building surface of a wall, stop a leg and are staring at it also in the passerby.

In addition, the user who became the first person to arrive purchases "Xbox Special Edition" and a "JSRF jet set radio future." He who is called a college student living in Yokohama is a thing that the numbered ticket was got from yesterday\'s 6:00 p.m. The question of a coverage group "after Xbox is announced, I am looking forward to it. It was said that the online network game which can play with the man in the world was expected."

This time, it has the influence which performed the promotion centering on Shibuya, and the reaction of the user in today\'s Shibuya TSUTAYA is very best. As long as this is seen, it is said that Xbox was able to have a good start. Anyway, new hard Xbox to which Microsoft raises and sends out the aggregate power. I want to also observe future promotion deployment and transition of the number of selling.
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« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2002, 06:16:59 PM »
lol!:laughing: . Were those really from the ps2 launch?! oh man thats great. I havent laughed that hard in a long time. the reall screens arent nearly as good:D
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« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2002, 06:20:44 PM »
nice catch faston
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I don\'t have comprehension issues, you just need to learn how to communicate.
Yessir massir ima f*** you up reeeeal nice and homely like. uh huh, yessum ; ).
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« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2002, 06:46:39 PM »
More pictures!!  :D






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