The 360 is undergoing something of a resurgence in Japan, according to sources in the Japanese retail sector, with the 360 Elite selling out.
Last week, Microsoft reduced the price of the Core console in Japan to 27,800 Yen (around £120) while introducing a new Value Pack console consisting of a Premium machine, Forza Motorsport 2 and Viva Pinata for 34,00 Yen (£150-ish) in the territory.
This also coincided with the release of Namco's Ace Combat 6, along with the addition of popular Japanese orientated titles such as Blue Dragon and The Idolmaster to the console's Platinum budget range.
And so far, the signs are that this may have worked. According to Gamefront.de, retail chain Asobit has seen a significant rise in demand for the 360 and its related products. According to the report, Ace Combat 6 is selling particularly well, while the Elite model of the 360 actually sold out.
ScreenRant's Ben Brosofsky writes, "There have been a lot of great co-op games over the years, and the best of the best cover a wide variety of genres while maintaining the fun."
ScreenRant's Stephen Tang writes, "The Elder Scrolls 6 won't be releasing for a while, and in the meantime, the modding community has been making Skyrim into a next-gen game."
That’s just laughable to me. I think they’ve squeezed all they can out of an 12 year old game
"Easily" because they see mods, says the gamer. To heck with licensing, terms agreements conditions, etc. all you need to do is belive in mods. Yeah, so real superficial BS yo.
The Nerd Stash: "Developed by Treyarch Studios, Call of Duty: Black Ops games are some of the best in the series in terms of gameplay, story, and -- of course -- Zombies."
Black ops 4, because it was the last cod of duty I was able to dominate with a +2 k/d ratio. Before all the freaking cheating started to happen. It was nice catching people off guard and shooting at them first and getting the kill. Unlike now, where I shoot people first, but they gun me down with less hits, less time, literally feels like they can kill me in a split second. At times, they are able to run away after me shooting them way more than necessary, yet, the second I'm spotted, I'm dead, there's no me running away to cover. They can do cartwheels, summersaults, backflips and gun you down perfectly. They can shoot you across the map with perfect accuracy. They can jump around like morons and gun you down without even having to correct their aim. They have superman split second perfect reactions. That's the best way to describe it, everything they do is spot on perfect. They can spam and spray (no praying) their gun from far away, because they have no recoil or bullet spread. It always feels like I have to aim and also correct my aim when moving around, while these pricks don't have to do the same.
And yes, I know how to play fps games. I dominated many fps games like: Resistance 1&2, kz 2&3, Socom, MAG, Crysis, Gotham City Impostors, blitz brigade etc. all with 2-4 k/d ratio. Kz2 (lag input controls) and resistance (no aim assist in resistance) being the hardest and were the games I reached either close to a 3 k/d ratio or above.
I truly got to enjoy blacks ops 4 and got my money's worth out of it. Afterwords, I would either stop playing cod games after a while, because of the cheating, or would skip buying cod games for a year or two before buying another.
I'd expect this month to be quite a spike on the Japanese hardware sales chart for the 360, with 3 Elites being sold. And by the end of the month, only 2 of those will still be working. Congratulations Microsoft, that's 2 happy americans that are living in Japan
@shadowflare
Your wrong. And flaming. The elite is a great console...who wouldn't want to buy it. It has less hardware failure btw. Bomboclad!
Elite has the same hardware failure rate as any 360. Which is not great. :)
You can't deny it, all the stock of 700 360 elite consoles where sold, it shows an increase of 700 units sold in Japan. Well done.
Of course the PS3 sold 1600 more and the Wii sold 2500 more. The Wii has hit the spot with the Japanese this generation, there seems to be nothing Microsoft or Sony can do about that right now.
it should have less failures. Its been out 2 years and the Elite cost 450bucks
Im getting a Elite for Mass Effect in the new year afer hopefully a price drop. Anyone that got a 360 on launch or has bought the core is not or does not have a nextgen machine. If you dont have a HDMI hook up your machine is outdated.
I want a Elite that is made in 08 so i know it has all the new chips and stuff. I also want it for under 400bucks. 329 would be perfect
When the PS3 luanched it outdated more then half of all 360 sold