Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video game console is not selling as well as expected in Japan, though the software giant says customers there and around the world are buying more games than they did for Sony Corp.'s rival PlayStation 2. "Japan is going well on the software side and probably is a little behind where we want to be on the hardware side," Xbox director Robbie Bach told Reuters in an interview. "But we always expected things would be tough. Microsoft has demonstrated patience and persistence there before and I think we will do very well," Bach said. Bach declined to give specific sales figures or comment on a gaming magazine report last week that said the Xbox had seen a slow start in Japan, with sales of just over 190,000 units since its Feb. 22 launch.
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