While not taking the top spot in hardware sales (as it had been rather accustomed to) this past week, the PSP still keeps shifting hardware in Japan, with yet another week topping the 30k plateau. More amazingly, the system now claims yet another exclusive debuting at number one, as Grand Knights History is the nation’s [...]
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Japanese Sales: PSP Rocks Software AND Hardware
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011Japan’s Media Create Sales get Rhythmic, Heavenly
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011Japanese sales measurement super group Media Create has sent out its weekly sales rankings. For the first time in a long while, and probably the last time until Dragon Quest X comes out, a Wii game has claimed the top spot. Well, I say this even though all signs point to a Wii U transition [...]
Japanese Sales: PS3 Game Hits Home Run, 3DS Takes Flight
Thursday, July 21st, 2011Today, Media Create has released its sales figures for the week ending July 17. Thanks to a port of Star Fox 64 and a new color — red — the 3DS jumped into the front of the Japanese hardware sales. On the software end of things, it was the PS3 taking the top spot with [...]
Japan’s 20 Best Sellers of 2011′s First Half
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011Japanese software sales measurement clan Media Create now reveals the 20 best-selling video games in the country so far this year.
Western Games Enjoy Chart-topping Success in Japan
Friday, July 15th, 2011Living here in the ‘Pan and being lucky to see how the different game shops change their promotions, displays, posters, and shelf arrangements from week to week, I could of course tell that L.A. Noire, inFamous 2, and Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon were gearing up for market success. Never did I expect, however, that [...]
Final Fantasy XIII-2 Makes Strong Stand in Famitsu’s Most Wanted
Monday, July 11th, 2011Now sitting at number 3, the controversial Final Fantasy XIII-2 is higher than it’s ever been on the list
Tiny Battlers Not So Small on Sales Charts, Japan’s Current Best-Selling Games Announced
Friday, June 24th, 2011No one questioned for a second that Ryu Ga Gotoku: Of the End (Yakuza: Of the End in the West) would sell a truckload of copies early into its retail run. Many may be surprised, however, to find that in just its second week on the market, it’s been dethroned by a PSP game. Level-5′s [...]
Japan’s Sales Charts Take Gamers by the Hand
Monday, June 6th, 2011The 3DS is a tricky puzzle to solve right now. Its software has a hard time making the charts, but in recent times it has slipped a couple into the top three, even being the king of the mountain at times. In the most recently published Media Create charts, it’s again a 3DS game that [...]
Japan’s Release Forecast: June 2011
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011The month of June isn’t just for big news and demo conferences, as Japan is ready to get quite a few big software releases, one of which is a sequel in a series that consistently sells out during its first few days on shelves.
Portal 2 Sees Decent Japanese Sales, Full Top 20 Chart Released
Monday, May 30th, 2011Akiba’s Trip, a PSP game about stripping zombies in order to expose them to sunlight and kill them, is currently the best-selling game in Japan, says Media Create.
PSP Titles to be Remastered on the PS3
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011Fans of Monster Hunter Portable may want to grab a hold of something sturdy for this particular piece of news. Ever wanted to play your favorite portable series at home on the big screen, with amplified visuals? Well then are you in for a treat.
Japan’s Top 10 Selling Games: PlayStation Scores 8
Thursday, May 19th, 2011Finally a 3DS game makes a big impact on the Japanese sales charts, but that’s not saying much this week, because it still lost out to a re-release of a regular DS game that’s already been on for six weeks. Sony goes on to stick eight PlayStation games in the top 10 sellers.
Picture Girlfriend Outranks Versus XIII on Famitsu’s Most Wanted
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011The hell?
Security Expert Believes PSN Should Remain Offline
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011The PSN has been up for a few days now, in most of the world. However, in Japan, the country where Sony calls home, the network has yet to be restored due to governmental blocks in place before it can be separately verified that the new infrastructure is secure. Now at least one security expert [...]
Japanese Holiday Sales Pt. 4: Which Games Reign Supreme?
Friday, May 13th, 2011The software sales numbers have now come in, complimenting the hardware figures published just recently. So, in this critical Japanese sales period, we’ve so far seen the PSP destroy anything in its path on the hardware charts while the best-selling game for the first part of the May holiday season was a reboot of Dragon [...]
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