The Xbox 360 has sold out in Japan after a PS3 beating week which saw around 25,000 of the Microsoft consoles being purchased.

A statement on the Japanese Xbox site, run through Google's translation service, states that the console is sold out across Japan due to "our own sales targets being exceeded by the actual customer sales."

Supply issues should ease next month though as more of each console's SKU - standard, elite, and arcade - are shipped over the land of the rising sun.

Previously the Japanese market has been a tough nut to crack for Microsoft, with the local Sony company outperforming with it's PS2 and PS3 platforms. However MS have addressed this by bringing more games to the Xbox 360 that appeal to the Japanese gamer, such as Tales of Vesperia and Final Fantasy XI.

By Jason Cartwright

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  1. Thomas Ryan 4 months ago

    Final Fantasy XI, apparently, is PS3 exclusive in Japan!

  2. Daggre Unregistered 4 months ago

    This is great for Microsoft, but they will need to keep releasing great RPGs like ToV to keep momentum like this going.

    What they need to do now is get a killer MMORPG for the 360, something with simple mechanics like Guild Wars (which has been crazy successful in Korea on PC) and get Japanese people playing with each other. Other candidates would be Warhammer Online and of course World of Warcraft but both of those are much larger and would take up 4-10GB of the 360 hard drive. ANY MMORPG that's decent would really make a big impact in Asia.