Let no one doubt the power a popular anime artist and a popular RPG developer can have on a system' s success in Japan. 1up is reporting that pre-orders for the 10,000 limited edition Blue Dragon Xbox 360 bundles are selling briskly, with some retailers running out of stock within minutes. This is the same console that barely sold 2,000 units in the country last week, making the healthy interest all the more surprising.

Is this sales surge a temporary blip due to a collectible bundle, or will Microsoft be able to parlay the interest into a sustainable market share in the country? Either way, we' d advise Microsoft that a boob-filled bundle for Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 couldn' t hurt in the land of the giant huggable Kasumi pillow.

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This is good news indeed for MS, and for fans of Jrpg and the 360, heres hoping the surge will continue and with games like Lost Odyssey and Tri-Ace in the horrison it might be a good thing, if only Square would start throwing FF games at the 360 as well

My gawd! Akira Toriyama' s popularity is insane!

Then again, these could be eBay hoarders But not all them, of course.

Still 10K isn' t going to help MS win the console war, but this IS good news.

Edit: Also, I just went to check out the Blue Dragon website (http://www.bluedragon.tv/) Apparently, they' re putting up updates every Fri.

Also, there' s an English BD trailer up now...actually, they just put in English subtitles...

And the bad guy' s name is...Nene? Seriously o_0?

Edit2: Also linked from the site, here' s the bundle: http://www.bluedragon.tv/gameinfo/index.aspx

Doesn' t that little Quez thing scream out in disapproval:

" Hideyo, Nene Hideyooooo!!!"

Or something or other. 10,000 units in one week (or a few hours) is great if
your machine only shifts 1,000 a week.

And the bad guy' s name is...Nene? Seriously o_0?

He looks like a fatter-headed version of Babidi... That' s just what my friends
say, I will confess openly to having no idea who Babidi actually is...

Yeah, well Dragonball Z sorta did usher in Yu Yu Hakusho, Bleach and many other Anime standards now taking over in Japan.