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Article: No clamor for Xbox in Japan; Microsoft's failure to gauge cultural tastes in pushing its American superstar product has resulted in weak sales.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 10, 2006
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Byline: Matthew Rusling Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
OSAKA, JAPAN -- At Osaka's Bic Camera, one of the city's largest electronics superstores, the games department is buzzing with shoppers. But while US stores this holiday season were teeming with gamers clamoring for Microsoft's new Xbox 360, consumers here were ignoring it in favor of the PlayStation 2 (PS2) and Nintendo game aisles.
"I'm not sure whether I will buy Xbox 360 or not, because it has very few games now," says Sagayama Yuichi. Akiyama Yuya simply shrugs his shoulders and says, "PS2 has the games that I want."
Ever since its 2002 release, Microsoft's Xbox has ...