Brace yourselves - Xbox 360's having a brief moment of popularity in Japan. A moment not seen since an Xbox 360 game managed to briefly sell rather well for a bit in March.

New release Tales of Vesperia, some sort of RPG, actually spawned a queue of "about 100" gamers on the morning of its release. It was some people, in Japan, being excited about Xbox 360. Either that or a bunch of homeless people thought someone was handing out free soup and rolls.

As well as this brief, public show of affection, sales figures for last week show that Soul Calibur IV did extremely well on Xbox 360 too - the slash 'em off hit the charts at number six, selling 35,000 copies. There will be less negative than usual emails flying around Microsoft's Japanese HQ today!

(Via Kotaku)

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