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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (48642)	11/7/2001 11:51:52 AM
From: Bruce Brown	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Better yet ... 208 respondents, 60% of which consider Christmas special yields about 125. Of these, 67% (34+18+15) have some kind of special dinner or less than 84. Of those, 4% have turkey, i.e., between 3 and 4. Which leads back to the important question in terms of retail sales in Japan when items such as gifts of gaming consoles would be purchased. If it isn't at the same time as the holidays for some other religions in the world that celebrate around the December time frame, when is the main "holiday shopping season" in Japan? The reason being, the argument was raised that the Xbox would not be available for purchase in Japan during this upcoming holiday season. It would be interesting to have a follow up on that argument that supports it or refutes it. Regardless, the point was made that the initial number of Xboxes available in the first wave of sales coming up at the end of next week - on a unit basis in the millions - was smaller than units available for sale of the Sony and Nintendo consoles. BB