Japanese Console Market Share Numbers (Joystiq)
Demand
for the Xbox 360 has grown in the West as the Christmas-holiday
shopping season enters its final leg, but the same can't be said for
MS's new console darling in Japan.
For the week of December
12-18, the Xbox 360 only sold 8,623 hardware units (capturing a mere
1.39% of the Japanese market), a huge drop-off from even the relatively
better first-week sales of 43,970 during launch. Having Animal
Crossing, Mario Kart, Final Fantasy IV, and more Pokemon and
brain-training games for Nintendo's portable systems probably didn't
help any.