Halo 3 Dominates Japanese Charts.

[Gikoku]

Halo 3 Dominates Japanese Charts.

Microsoft
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Xbox 360

Bungie's epic first-person shooter has actually gone down a storm in Japan, hitting the number one spot in the software sales charts in its first week.

With 59,000 copies sold in the past week, Halo 3 beat the likes of the mighty Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (55,000), Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core (54,000), and the newly-released Tamagotchi DS game (54,000).

This will be extra good news to Microsoft considering that not only does Japan rarely give a damn about FPS games, but more significantly, poor sales of the 360 have left it in a distant third.

Fewer than 500,000 Xbox 360 consoles have been sold compared to 3.6 million Wii units and 1.2 million PS3s sold in the region.

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: Halo 3 Dominates Japanese Charts.

Im shocked... Halo 3 ... number one in Japan...! :O

Beating likes of Final Fantasy and Pokemon on Japanese consoles! :O

 

[Gikoku]

Re: Halo 3 Dominates Japanese Charts.

Im shocked... Halo 3 ... number one in Japan...! :O

Beating likes of Final Fantasy and Pokemon on Japanese consoles! :O

:lol: Yeah, i never thought I'd see something like this over there. And especially seeing an Xbox FPS topping a game like Final Fantasy, and a FF7 game at that! :w00t:

I'm definitely impressed, But i wonder if this will help open the door for more great FPS games in Japan? Or could this just be a one-time home run?

 

[Dark Drakan]

Re: Halo 3 Dominates Japanese Charts.

:lol: Yeah, i never thought I'd see something like this over there. And especially seeing an Xbox FPS topping a game like Final Fantasy, and a FF7 game at that! :w00t:

I'm definitely impressed, But i wonder if this will help open the door for more great FPS games in Japan? Or could this just be a one-time home run?

I think it was fed on hype and media coverage but might have opened more peoples eyes to the FPS genre which cant hurt.

 

[Orpheus Lupus]

Re: Halo 3 Dominates Japanese Charts.

I feel a disturbance in the force, as if millions of Japanese souls caught motion sickness and threw up while playing a FPS...