Japan goes (a bit) Xbox 360 crazy

Well, according to Microsoft it does. The Tokyo Game Show this weekend has been a hotbed of Microsoft employee quotables, stats releases and game announcements on how well the Xbox 360 is doing over there. Here they all are in one easily digestible package:

Blu-ray a failure: “It’s pretty clear it is not the next DVD, right?” said Aaron Greenberg, Xbox 360 Group Product Manager. “The days of one physical format being the standard are gone. Let’s say right now we’re not sure if it’s the next UMD or the next DVD.” That’s a one-two combo to Sony’s midriff right there.

Japanese developers love 360: Greenberg again has noted a “tremendous shift” of Japanese developers moving to their machine from Sony’s. “We’re the platform they’re looking to,” quoth he. Whom? Well, Square Enix is now bringing Final Fantasy XIII to PS3 and 360 simultaneously in Europe (Japan itself remains a PS3 exclusive for now). But the big news is Tekken 6 to come to 360.

Tekken 6: What did you not read the end of the last point? Yup, lovely Tekken action coming simultaneously to PS3 and 360, autumn 2009. And N3 II, Ninety Nine Night’s sequel also heading to 360.

X360 outselling PS3: Hardware shortages for Microsoft’s machine in Japan? Unheard of. But yes, the 360 outsold the PS3 in September and, so far, October too (by over a thousand in the first week figures).

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