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Phantasy Star Universe Takes Top Spot in Japan
Sega’s Phantasy Star Universe for PSP notched up 342,000 sales to comfortably outpace its nearest rival during the week ended August 3 - Rhythm Heaven Gold for DS was a fellow new entry at No2 with 213,000 sales.
Square Enix’s Dragon Quest V dropped from first to third, but edged closer to the million units sold mark after moving another 112,000 copies.
Namco Bandai’s Soul Calibur IV was new in fourth and sixth, the PS3 version of the title selling 75,000 units compared to 35,000 for the Xbox 360 edition.
Konami’s Powerful Pro Baseball 15 dropped three places to No5, while Fatal Frame IV for Wii was new at No7.
Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii and Gundam Battle Universe rounded off the top ten, closely followed by Wario Land: Shake It! and Siren: New Translation, both of which slipped out of the top ten after just one week.
01. Phantasy Star Universe - (Sega, PSP) - 342,000 / 342,000
02. Rhythm Heaven Gold - (Nintendo, DS) - 213,000 / 213,000
03. Dragon Quest V - (Square Enix, DS) - 112,000 / 946,000
04. Soul Calibur IV - (Namco Bandai, PS3) - 75,000 / 75,000
05. Powerful Pro Baseball 15 - (Konami, PS2) - 37,000 / 121,000
06. Soul Calibur IV - (Namco Bandai, Xbox 360) - 35,000 / 35,000
07. Fatal Frame IV - (Nintendo, Wii) - 33,000 / 33,000
08. Wii Fit - (Nintendo, Wii) - 32,000 / 2,442,000
09. Mario Kart Wii - (Nintendo, Wii) - 23,000 / 1,633,000
10. Gundam Battle Universe (Namco Bandai, PSP) - 21,000 / 201,000
Sales data compiled by Media Create, via NeoGaf.
Links to Charts for the week:
Top 50 + Hardware: http://lotuscharts.blogspot.com/2008/08/media-create-sales-0728-0803-top...
Software Charts:
http://lotuscharts.blogspot.com/2008/08/media-create-sales-0728-0803-sof...
Console Charts:
http://lotuscharts.blogspot.com/2008/08/media-create-sales-0728-0803-con...
Handheld Charts:
http://lotuscharts.blogspot.com/2008/08/media-create-sales-0728-0803-han...
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PL
You don't think the Japanese would like Soul Calibur? I thought fighting games were popular over there. Obviously not in the same league as JRPGs, but then again, what is? I, for one, agree with Kim_Naroz, I was very surprised to see such a close margain in the sales figures. But, maybe they don't like the Soul Calibur franchise over there much anymore? Or, maybe they're less fond of fighting games since the days of Street Fighter? Could be any number of things. Personally, i'm just surprised to see ANY 360 game in the Top 10 in Japan.
Sales numbers like those prove that the Playstation 3 is doing almost as poorly in Japan as the Xbox 360. The fact that Soul Caliber 4 on the PS3 outsold the Xbox 360 by a 2:1 margin is a disappointing thing when you consider that the Xbox 360 has sold so poorly in Japan due to the fact that Japanese people are not interested in buying foreign videogame systems.
I don't think that's necessarily true. You should wait until JRPGs (or other games that Japanese people really like) to make that assumption. The results will clearly be different when FFXIII and FFXIII-Versus come out. I'm sure they will sell a ton of those games on the PS3 in Japan.