Bloomberg has a story up saying that Microsoft sold 39 percent of their Xbox 360 stock in Japan. That works out to about 62,000 consoles, according to researchers Enterbrain. Keep in mind that s with the Japan-only discount that knocks the console price down to $316 or so.

The story also says that 28 percent, or about 42,000 of the 159,000 available Xbox 360s were sold. The second number comes via Media Create. Is it just me or is that a pretty sizeable difference?

Neither of the research firms dared to hazard a guess at the Xbox 360 sales figures in the U.S. and U.K. Previously published reports put the U.S. sales at anywhere from 332,000 to 400,000 and about 75,000 in the U.K.

Check out our own Brian Ashcraft s coverage of the 360 launch in Osaka, where things seemed a bit slow.

Microsoft Sold 28 percent of Xbox 360s in Japanese Stores [Bloomberg]

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