Microsoft can’t be happy with their sales figures in Japan right now, as it looks like the numbers say only a tiny bit of the shipment of over 150,000 Xbox 360’s have sold. The number from Next Generation say only 62,000 units have sold.
Microsoft Japan was expecting to need more units in the weeks ahead, but with world wide shortages, I am sure production will be allocated elsewhere atleast until Dead or Alive 4 comes out at the end of the month, hopefully drawing in a larger Japanese audience to pick up the machine.