Xbox One is bombing in Japan, sales are worse than Xbox 360 launch

Japan isn't taking to the Xbox One, with sales of the new console worse than the first 48 hours of the Xbox 360 being on sale.

Anthony Garreffa | Sep 25, 2014 at 10:18 pm CDT

Well, it looks like Microsoft isn't having the success it wanted to in Japan with the recent launch of its Xbox One console. In its first four days on sale, there were 25,674 consoles sold.

Xbox One is bombing in Japan, sales are worse than Xbox 360 launch | TweakTown.com

Comparing this to the number of Xbox 360 consoles sold when it launched in 2005, which sold over 60,000 consoles in just two days. On its second week on sale, there were just 3,015 Xbox One consoles sold in Japan. Comparing this to the homegrown Sony PlayStation 3 and 4, the PS3 sold twice as many, while eight times as many PS4s were sold.

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Anthony is a long time PC enthusiast with a passion of hate for games built around consoles. FPS gaming since the pre-Quake days, where you were insulted if you used a mouse to aim, he has been addicted to gaming and hardware ever since. Working in IT retail for 10 years gave him great experience with custom-built PCs. His addiction to GPU tech is unwavering.