I can't believe people still push this idiotic and, frankly, racist console wars bullshit. As if performance and price are the only things that matter, not marketing, brand power, usability and long term support. People act like Japan should've embraced the 360 because Microsoft graced them with real effort for a whole two years, as if that would've worked anywhere coming off a massive flop like the oXbox (hell, the 360 didn't even take off in the US in its first 2-3 years). The reality is Microsoft had no long term plan and when their short term plan didn't produce immediate results, they pulled the plug. But nope, let's conveniently ignore how much Japan loves other western products and just blame it on xenophobia.
The funny thing about this bullshit is that it isn't even that unique. It's the same thing we've seen in a lot of other non-English countries, just amplified because the Japanese market is so different than everywhere else.
Zhuge's vouched for the EEDAR when they've reported figures in the past and said they have access to the same data he does, so no, they don't seem to just have their own internal NPD data.
And I don't think you're reading the chart right if you think the 360 bar is lower than 84 million, it looks like it's ~85 million to me (with PS3 at ~86 million).
