Wed, Jan 28, 2009 | 12:40 GMT
Blue Dragon bestseller for 360 in Japan
A member of NeoGaf has collated the top 50 best selling 360 titles in Japan according to Famitsu number as per 28/12/2008.
Unsurprisingly, the top 5 is made up of RPG’s with Blue Dragon leading the way.
Top ten below, the full top 50 through the link (numbers on the right indicated total units sold according to Famitsu numbers):
- Blue Dragon – 203,740
- Tales of Vesperia – 161,070
- The Last Remnant – 134,611
- Infinite Undiscovery – 112,444
- Lost Odyssey – 109,517
- Dead or Alive 4 – 108,618
- Viva Pinata (Platinum) – 101,552
- Forza 2 (Platinum) – 100,591
- Ace Combat 6 – 95,002
- Halo 3 – 83,696
By Mike Bowden
7 comments
#1
Blerk
28/01/09, 12:52 pm
And the moral of the story is… if you want your game to sell in Japan, hire Akira Toriyama.
#2
Michael O'Connor
28/01/09, 12:55 pm
“And the moral of the story is… if you want your game to sell in Japan, hire Akira Toriyama.”
Super Smash Brothers Brawl sold somewhere in the regions of 600,000 copies on its FIRST day at retail. The highest selling game here barely breaks 200,000.
So I don’t think it’s quite that simple.
#3
Blerk
28/01/09, 1:01 pm
Well, I was talking in respect to other 360 games.
#4
DryWit
28/01/09, 1:40 pm
I’m surprised that GTA IV is down in 19th, tbh.
#5
Blerk
28/01/09, 1:42 pm
The perils of being multi-format, I guess.
#6
NiceFellow
28/01/09, 3:40 pm
I guess MS are going to have to keep investing themselves in the region, as with those sales no sensible JRPG developer should be going 360 exclusive unless they’re more interested in the West than the East with their JRPG.
Looking at WKC sales (and its score) I’d be mightily curious to see how these would have sold on the PS3′s mediocre install base.
MS still got a lot of work to do in Japan by the look of it.
#7
Blerk
28/01/09, 3:44 pm
Well, WKC is really the only PS3 RPG that’s done anything like reasonable sales in Japan. The PS3 version of Eternal Sonata was outsold by the 360 version, for instance, despite the PS3 having a much larger install-base.
There’s a lot of work to do on both sides – the Japanese apparently need a lot more convincing to join the HD world than we Westerners do.