They done it!!!!! Xbox number 2 in Japan

[PuPPeT]

Damn get out the band!!!!!! start the music!!!!!

Xbox has moved ahead of GameCube in weekly hardware sales in Japan for the first time, in what is seen as a significant moment in the history of Microsoft's system in Far East.
Despite success in both the US and Europe, Xbox has struggled to find its feet in Japan, being heavily outsold by all major consoles and even Bandai's Wonderswan at one point. But the latest figures might hint at a reversal of fortunes, with Xbox registering sales of 8,862 compared with 8,177 for GameCube in the latest weekly figures.

The spike in Xbox sales is thought to be largely owing to the release of Tecmo's Dead or Alive Xtreme Volleyball - the important issue is now whether Xbox can maintain this momentum.


Ok to tell the truth this is still not very good and any one who thinks 8000 units can really keep Microsoft or Nintendo going in Japan is a fool! Good to see Microsoft can sell in Japan if the software is right!

[TheGame]

Hey, it's still progress, for Xbox at least. Xbox fans have a reason to celibrate now.

But I agree though, those aren't hot numbers period.

[The Duggler]

Well if it's because of that volley ball game, I wouldn't be to proud.

[Shadow_Link]

Hate to ruin your party, but that information is fake.

These are famitsu numbers,check it out (http://www.gamepro.com/index.html?/gamepro/famitsu/games/news/28147.shtml)

PlayStation 2 (56,878)
Game Boy Advance (30,029)
GameCube (8177)
Xbox (5184)
PS one (1663)
SwanCrystal (1123)
Wonder Swan Color (618)
Game Boy Color (575)

And these numbers are from IGN Japan

GameCube: 9,341
Xbox: 8,862

So there you have it, seems that other website you quoted took GC's famitsu numbers and Xboxes IGN Japan (which I belive is mediacreate) and did it that way.

Not that it matters, but you title is a bit misleading ;).

[TheGame]

which week is the quoted report from, and which week is link's report from?

[Bond]

Originally posted by Shadow_Link

Not that it matters, but you title is a bit misleading ;).
Has anyone noticed that Shadow_Link thinks any positive Xbox news is misleading? I have... ;)

It is probably fake though. If you could find us the link where you got this information from Puppet that would be great.

[The Duggler]

Hey Bond, how the hell are supposed to read the scrolling text in your sig? It's kind of akward.

[Bond]

Originally posted by Ranzid
Hey Bond, how the hell are supposed to read the scrolling text in your sig? It's kind of akward.
Yeah... the code scrolls in the opposite direction. Anyway, I fixed.

[The Duggler]

Also, you should ad in you "axis of weasels" Russia and China

[Shadow_Link]

Originally posted by Bond
Has anyone noticed that Shadow_Link thinks any positive Xbox news is misleading? I have... ;)

Er... Not really ;)

Anyway, what i meant to say was, is that the title is incorrect :D.

But anyway, this doesn't change the fact that both the GC and Xbox are getting trounced by the PS2...

[BreakABone]

Now the question I want to ask, I don't know if it's stated in the article, but what weeks are the sales for, I mean it doesn't state if it's this week, which is highly unlikely, last week or 6 weeks ago.

[Perfect Stu]

I don't think it should be a celebration for Xbox fans as much as it should be a depression for Gamecube fans ;)

[Bond]

Originally posted by Ranzid
Also, you should ad in you "axis of weasels" Russia and China
Nah, Russia and China don't deserve the 'privilege' at this point. I'm even thinking of removing Germany and Belgium, making it just France. :D

By the way, I thought you were opposed to the whole idea of war? Which would make me think you side with France, Germany, and Belgium.

[gekko]

Well you need an update. France changed their flag to just solid white. They felt it was more appropriate, since it's flown more than their current red white and blue design :D

[CrOnO_LiNk]

Xbox number 2? Even if it did outsell the Gamecube's sell this week, it would have been number 3.... Don't forget about the GBA and the insane Pokemon sales.

Also, can you link the site you got that info from?

[Seth]

You'd think that everyone in Japan by now would own atleast 2 PS2's. 50 000 every week. geez.

[CrOnO_LiNk]

Originally posted by bouncer_agb
You'd think that everyone in Japan by now would own atleast 2 PS2's. 50 000 every week. geez.

Yeah, seriously. PS2's are easilt mess up. I am sure everyone's PS2 here says Disk Read error many times... Am I correct?

Mine does and I keep my PS2 in perfect condition.

[GameKinG]

Oh my, XBox is gaining ground... :/

Its more of 'ok' kinda good to know news for xbox owners, and 'ok' kinda bad news for gamecube owners. Cause ussualy something like 4,000 against 13,000. But japan loves their 'volleyball', just imagining they could 'play' with the 'voleyballs'.


Anything else out for them in japan? PSO? PD:O?

BTW, they eat GBAs for breakfast, and build houses with PS2s...

[TheGame]

Comfirmed... well, sorta... I just saw on G4TV that Xbox did infact beat GCN in sales in Japan for a week.

But like I said earlier in the thread... what date was your news from PsYcHo?

[gekko]

Wow, 1 whole week! Oh no, the world is gonna end!

Why make a big deal over nothing?

[BlueFire]

Maybe because this is a pretty big deal for Xbox. lol. :P

[PuPPeT]

Originally posted by BLueFire
Maybe because this is a pretty big deal for Xbox. lol. :P

And I find Xbox sales in Japan kind of funny!!!!! :D

[GameKinG]

Yeah but saying this is a big deal for xbox actually kinda makes their sales even more pathetic in perspective (In Japan).

[fingersman]

Well congrats M$.......it may be only one week, but combine that with the fact that Xbox is made by an Americian company, and the fact that Zelda.WW was recently released, I'm surprised that Xbox was able to beat GC sales at all ( even if it was one week).


:D

*imagines Bill celebrating once sees the good news*

[Perfect Stu]

Originally posted by CrOnO_LiNk
Yeah, seriously. PS2's are easilt mess up. I am sure everyone's PS2 here says Disk Read error many times... Am I correct?

Mine does and I keep my PS2 in perfect condition.

I don't get any Disc Read Errors...neither do any of my friends :unsure: and I've had my system since Oct. 2000.

[Seth]

Ok, so japan and american sales all combined..who has sold the second most? Xbox or Gamecube. Cuz if this is the first week ever that the xbox has outsold the GC...?

so in total which system has more sales?


ps. Fanboys don't reply.

[Bond]

Originally posted by bouncer_agb
Ok, so japan and american sales all combined..who has sold the second most? Xbox or Gamecube. Cuz if this is the first week ever that the xbox has outsold the GC...?

so in total which system has more sales?


ps. Fanboys don't reply.
It's really hard to say right now.

Half the people you talk to will say Xbox is ahead worldwide, half the people you talk to will say GameCube is ahead worldwide. Although these three things I know are true:

Xbox is ahead of the GameCube in America.
GameCube is ahead of the Xbox in Japan.
Xbox is ahead of the GameCube in Europe.

[GameKinG]

Originally posted by fingersman
Well congrats M$.......it may be only one week, but combine that with the fact that Xbox is made by an Americian company, and the fact that Zelda.WW was recently released, I'm surprised that Xbox was able to beat GC sales at all ( even if it was one week).


:D

*imagines Bill celebrating once sees the good news*

Wind Waker wasnt released recently, it was last year, and sales had already slowed down quite a bit for it after the holidays and before Volleyball Se...err X.

[fingersman]

I think this the amount of consoles sold in the USA.
Now if someone could find the sales for Japan and Europe.*hint* *hint*

That brings the cumulative installed bases to:

PS2: 16,318,000
XBOX: 4,765,000
GameCube: 3,664,000
GBA: 12,159,000

http://www.nintendojo.com/infocus/view_item.php?1045600920

[Shadow_Link]

Sorry for the delay, Justin, the date is on the link.

But anyway, sorry to bring up this old topic, but those numbers were proven wrong.

An explanation on how they came up with the numbers from the videogamestocks group on Yahoo (Link to message): (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videogamestocksgroup/message/3680)

The website that reported those numbers clearly made up the story to generate hits to their site for ad revenue. They quote 'Weekly Famitsu' as the source for their numbers when the Famitsu numbers had the GCN at ~8200 and the Xbox at ~5200. They then used figures from a different source (Dengeki), which had the Xbox at the ~8700 figure and the GCN somewhere near 10,000) and put them together. Really just pathetic to be honest -- they also made up a random number on the Pokémon RuSa weekly sales, claiming they'd fallen to 33k per
week when they were still going strong at ~60k.

[Source: Gamepro.com]

Famitsu:

Week ending January 26th:
PlayStation 2 (64,148)
Game Boy Advance (33,365)
GameCube (9341)
Xbox (8862)
PS one (2254)
SwanCrystal (1506)
Game Boy Color (491)
Wonder Swan Color (477)

Week ending Feb 2nd:

PlayStation 2 (56,878)
Game Boy Advance (30,029)
GameCube (8177)
Xbox (5184)
PS one (1663)
SwanCrystal (1123)
Wonder Swan Color (618)
Game Boy Color (575)

Week ending Feb 9th:

PlayStation 2 (46,918)
Game Boy Advance (25,640)
GameCube (7653)
Xbox (3101)
PS one (2192)
SwanCrystal (971)
Wonder Swan Color (659)
Game Boy Color (446)

Week ending Feb 16th:

Game Boy Advance SP (117,859)
PlayStation 2 (62,409)
Game Boy Advance (32,422)
GameCube (7607)
Xbox (3012)
PS one (1329)
SwanCrystal (1262)
Wonder Swan Color (530)
Game Boy Color (453)

[tarakan69]

Originally posted by Perfect Stu
I don't get any Disc Read Errors...neither do any of my friends :unsure: and I've had my system since Oct. 2000.

I still have the PS2 I got from launch... but I had 4 PSones die on me.

[TheGame]

maybe you just don't know how to take care of your games... I had a PSOne from spring 2001-fall 2002, and I sold it. I played two games on it most of the time and I never had a disk error or a freze or anything of that nature happen.

If you are talking about Psx... then err year, they got issues. Mine just had a problem loading. The only way it would load late in it's life span is if I would sit the console on it's side.

[Bond]

I just found this at another Xbox forum:

Microsoft's Xbox console has beaten Nintendo's GameCube for the first time since it launched, according to sales figures compiled by Shukan Fami-tsu Data Inc, which collates information from Japan's seven biggest videogame retailers, as well as the independent sector.

For the week ending Friday 31 January the Xbox sold 8,862 units, versus 8,177 GameCubes - and in the same week Xbox software sales accounted for an unprecedented 16 percent of the market, mainly led by Tecmo's Dead Or Alive: Extreme Beach Volleyball.
Well, they are saying the week ended on January 31st... ahhh!

Sony will hardly be troubled by the news though - although PS2 sales were down week on week, it still managed to shovel more than 58,000 consoles out of the door, helped no doubt by an astonishing 309,279 first-week sales for Capcom's Devil May Cry 2.

Another significant milestone is about to be hit by Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. Although their combined sales are now down to 'just' over 33,000 units a week, a grand total of nearly four million have been sold since launch last November.

Source: Gamer TV

Although I do think that Shadow Link is right, and it really pisses me off when websites produce fake storys just for traffic.

By the way, I can't view that link you posted from Yahoo, Shadow Link, mind posting it on the forum?