I have seen the weekly sales of the Xbox 360 for quite some time now in Japan and looking at how many thousands are sold weekly there is no doubt that the userbase for the 360 in Japan is quite large imo of course.

Yep that "large" userbase will be why ffXiii is coming out first and with all the extras on 360 in japan... oh hold on... sorry I forgot, yeah thats right, you're an idiot.

360 sale are up in japan though, however that gain is dwarfed by the losses in america where everyone has become tired of replacing the dead ones every 2 months. I expect there are already landfill sites dedicated to the 360 in america.

Wow, we have an SS5.... and the comments are as risible as those from SS4... :-(

Though actually, SS4 has a small-ish point, 360 sales aren't brilliant in Japan but I'm guessing they must have an installed base of 500,000 by now (Spong - do you have the figures?) which isn't bad.

Also Spong, do you have year-to-date figures for Japan? I wonder how the PSP is faring overall against the DS, it's been having a great few months but what do the overall numbers say?