Xbox Japan Boss Resigns Amidst Poor Xbox One Sales

<p>For a long time now&comma; the Xbox One hasn&&num;8217&semi;t been doing so well in Japan&period; The system has yet to pass seven figures in lifetime sales following <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;xbox-japan-is-very-unhappy-with-the-xbox-one-performance&sol;">its launch in the country two months ago<&sol;a> and since then&comma; Xbox of Japan head Takashi Sensui has acknowledged his concerns about the matter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Today&comma; Sensui announced his resignation from the company saying that he intends to stay with Microsoft in the meantime&comma; though he will be working exclusively with its US branch instead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Famitsu reports that the top Xbox Japan job has now fallen to newcomer Yoshinami Takahasi&comma; who joined the company this past July after working at Sony for the last 25 years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s not as though we&&num;8217&semi;re satisfied with the current sales state&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Sensui said in weeks past&period; &&num;8220&semi;Taking the first step was very important&comma; and as for how to permeate the market from here&comma; we hope to continue to do our best&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The news comes weeks after sales reports confirmed that the Xbox One has still yet to break any sales records of its predecessors&comma; the Xbox 360 or the original Xbox&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At this time&comma; Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s all-in-one has shifted only 38&comma;461 units in Japan since its September release&period; The overwhelming majority of those unites – 23&comma;562 to be – were sold over its first four days&period; Xbox 360 sold double that over two days when it launched back in 2005&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Xbox One suffered the lowest Japanese launch for any home console in recent years – well below Wii U&&num;8217&semi;s respectable 308&comma;000 in just two days&comma; the PlayStation 4&&num;8217&semi;s 322&comma;000 in the same amount of time&comma; and any other machine from the last few console generations&period; Sales have declined ever since&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A mere 776 Xbox One consoles were sold in Japan last week according to numbers company Media Create&period; Comparably&comma; the PS4&&num;8217&semi;s sold 12&comma;600 and Wii U&&num;8217&semi;s sold 9&comma;600&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The challenges facing Xbox in Japan have been attributed to both the rise in competition from mobile gaming combined with its software&&num;8217&semi;s limited appeal to Japanese audiences&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The console has since begun selling in the U&period;S&period; minus its Kinect motion-control camera <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;microsoft-offers-xbox-one-without-kinect&sol;">since this past June<&sol;a> and is continuing to sell <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;microsoft-rolls-xbox-one-bundles-galore-just-350&sol;">a variety of console bundles<&sol;a> throughout the month and into January of next year in hopes of increasing sales stateside&period; Among them include a white Xbox One bundle with <em>Sunset Overdrive<&sol;em>&comma; a game we thought was nothing but <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;sunset-overdrive-gun-toting-exploding-insane-fun&sol;">&&num;8220&semi;Gun-Toting&comma; Exploding&comma; Insane Fun&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2014-11-28-japanese-xbox-boss-resigns-following-xbox-one-launch-flop">Eurogamer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;