Thu, Aug 14, 2008 | 07:43 BST

PSUP top in Japan as Vesperia makes valiant showing

Phantasy Star Universe Portable’s still lording over Japanese software sales, with Fire Emblem on DS punching up quickly into second place. Story of the week, though, has to be 360-exclusive Tales of Vesperia, with 108,000 units sold. The hardware figures are going to be worth watching this week.

Week ending August 10. Last week’s here. Thanks, NeoGAF.

01. [PSP] Phantasy Star Universe Portable (SEGA) 148,000 / 490,000
02. [DS] Fire Emblem (Nintendo) 145,000 / NEW
03. [DS] Rythem Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) – 130,000 / 343,000
04. [360] Tales of Vesperia (Namco Bandai) – 108,000 / NEW
05. [DS] Dragon Quest V (Square Enix) – 73,000 / 1,019,000
06. [DS] Sangokushi Taisen Ten (SEGA) – 33,000 / NEW
07. [DS] Summon Night 2 (Namco Bandai) – 30,000 / NEW
08. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 27,000 / 2,470,000
09. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 23,000 / 1,656,000
10. [PS3] Soul Calibur 4 (Namco Bandai) 23,000 / 97,000

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#1

Blerk
14/08/08, 8:57 am

Ooh! Is that the highest ever first week for an Xbox 360 game? I can’t remember what Blue Dragon did.

Edit: 83,000 in its first week. So I *think* that’s a record, by quite some way. Unless I’m forgetting some other ‘huge’ 360 release in Japan. :-D

#2

morriss
14/08/08, 9:33 am

NPD tonight and Japanese Hardware Friday I think. Could be a good week for MS this.

#3

Blerk
14/08/08, 9:36 am

Apparently the Famitsu early figures have the Wii on 36,000 and the 360 on… 24,000. :shock:

#4

Blerk
14/08/08, 9:37 am

And apparently they sold out of 360s. You couldn’t actually get one in the shops. :-D

#5

Shatner
14/08/08, 9:39 am

Namco had another 360 success with their Ace Combat game. Good for them – looks like they know how to keep their fans happy.

#6

morriss
14/08/08, 9:42 am

Yeah. All respect to Namco.

#7

Blerk
14/08/08, 9:44 am

No! You must hate Namco! For they hate Europe, and for that they must die! Die! Twice!

#8

Blerk
14/08/08, 10:45 am

Sold out. Blimey!

#9

Psychotext
14/08/08, 10:59 am

It’s funny… but then it also shows how utterly inept MS is at gauging the Japanese market.

#10

Blerk
14/08/08, 11:02 am

You can’t really blame them for not seeing that coming, though. :mrgreen:

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