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"Xbox sells 286,000 in Japan in 4months bad news for Bill."

These are just the sort of figures that Bill Gates does not want to hear. Japan has the largest videogame base in the world and anyone who say's they are not worried about sales figures in Japan are lying. With over million PS2 units sold since its launch and 3 million in the last 4 months this is a massive market to conceded ground on. Xbox has never really recovered from it's scratching disc problem and the fact the Xbox is to big and clumsy for the Japanese market. GC is also in a spot of bother in its homeland with only 475,000 sales in the last 4 months, lack of software and more importantly no dvd capability have cost Nintendo dearly and there are rumours that the GC could be Nintendo's last console.

Techno freak wrote:
> PS2 sells 3x the amount of Gamecube consoles in the last 4months is
> not anything to be concerned about!!!!

The GameCube hasn't been out as long as the PS2 has. The GameCube can't play it's predessor's games. The GameCube doesn't have many games out yet. By Christmas, the GameCube will have an impressive line-up of games. I don't think there's anything to worry about. Apart from spam topics trying to flame console wars.

Techno freak wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> Half a million consoles during the "Launch period" is
> hardly
> anything to be concerned about, the gamecube is doing great over
> there.
>
> PS2 sells 3x the amount of Gamecube consoles in the last 4months is
> not anything to be concerned about!!!!

Not at all, as this has been the case ever since the GameCube launched...afterall the PS2 is the more popular console at the moment....still I'm not sure how so many sales can actually take place still after all this time...

cookie monster wrote:
> Half a million consoles during the "Launch period" is hardly
> anything to be concerned about, the gamecube is doing great over
> there.

PS2 sells 3x the amount of Gamecube consoles in the last 4months is not anything to be concerned about!!!!

Heard this already! *sigh*

Half a million consoles during the "Launch period" is hardly anything to be concerned about, the gamecube is doing great over there.

These are just the sort of figures that Bill Gates does not want to hear. Japan has the largest videogame base in the world and anyone who say's they are not worried about sales figures in Japan are lying. With over million PS2 units sold since its launch and 3 million in the last 4 months this is a massive market to conceded ground on. Xbox has never really recovered from it's scratching disc problem and the fact the Xbox is to big and clumsy for the Japanese market. GC is also in a spot of bother in its homeland with only 475,000 sales in the last 4 months, lack of software and more importantly no dvd capability have cost Nintendo dearly and there are rumours that the GC could be Nintendo's last console.