Last week three games sold over 100,000 units in Japan. This week is even bigger. Four games sold over 100,000 units. Two of them were on DS while PSP and Xbox 360 had the others. The relative resurgence of console software last week, which saw PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii games take nine of the top 20 in the preliminary data, has receded in the wake of a big week for the portables. DS software accounted for ten of the top twenty games this week, while PSP had three of the top twenty. Still, overall software in the preliminary top twenty is down about 90,000 units from last week to ~855,000.
Key Points:
- Tales of Vesperia pushed Xbox 360 sales past PS3 sales in Japan this week. The game itself sold over 110,000 units.
- Wii, PS3, and PS2 had very quiet weeks, with no software topping 30,000 units.
- Fire Emblem DS continued the drive in Japan to push DS back to parity with PSP.
Xbox 360 Software – Tales of Vesperia debuted for the Xbox 360 this week. The preliminary data puts the game at 113,000 units week one. Considering Blue Dragon is still the only Xbox 360 game to top 103,000 units in Japan, Microsoft and Namco have to be quite happy with how the game has done so far. From the Tales push, expect Xbox 360 hardware sales to hit 12,000 to 20,000 units this week.
