MS to launch Xbox 360 Arcade in Japan

[Zeus]

Microsoft has announced that it is to launch the Xbox 360 Arcade unit in Japan on March 6 for 27,800 yen. Microsoft will also be simultaneously launching a a new range of Xbox 360 platinum titles including Saints Row, Rainbow Six Vegas and Riot Act for 2940 yen each.

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While the unit’s 27,800 yen price tag will match that of existing models, the Arcade 360 will sport an HDMI port and come bundled with a wireless controller, a 256MB memory unit and five Xbox Live Arcade titles, including Uno, Boom Boom Rocket and Pac-Man: Championship Edition.

Xbox 360 sales have continuously been disappointing in Japan, where the installed base of Microsoft’s console is dramatically lower than that of Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii.


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[iMad]

M$ must be blind to launch another SKU of their crappy failing console in Japan where nobody cares about Xbox 360

[Xenogears V]

In Japan!.:eek:. The War is already lose there.

[Jinx13378]

You'd both want that, wouldn't you?

[sjkhounk]

LOL, I'm just laughing at how the PS3 Fanboys have something to say in the 360's thread, but in the PS3 thread with a similar announcement, no one is there to say anything.

Hehe, just goes to show which fanboys are more annoying. Or the threatened ones.

[dennis872007]

You'd both want that, wouldn't you?

It has already happened. Look at how much the 360 sales in japan. If the ps3 is a failure in USA then the 360 is an abysmal failure that needs to be taken out of its misery in japan.

[xog]

Konichiwa arcade, ps3 has just lost the war, you rule Japan, you rule the console market.
Shame really, im sure the Japanese prefer a domestic product - ps3 - over alien western console mind poop. Horigato Dr. Roboto.....or is that Dr. 360? Cant. remember.