Xbox 360 gets cool reception in Japan

I guess this was to be expected.  BusinessWeek reports that Japanese customers bought less than half of the available Xbox 360 units available during the consoles debut.  Considering that Japan is home to Nintendo and Sony, :

 Microsoft, which started selling the Xbox 360 in Japan on Saturday, sold 62,135 machines over the weekend, or just 39 percent of the 159,000 consoles it is estimated to have shipped to stores, according to data from market researcher Enterbrain Inc.

The figures indicate a slower start than the original Xbox, which failed miserably in Japan. The first Xbox sold about 123,000 units in the first three days of its launch in 2002, according to Tokyo-based Enterbrain.

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