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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Nintendo and Game Freak see great success in week two of Pokemon Black and Pokemon White’s existence on Japanese store shelves. The Nintendo DS game moves another 800,000 plus copies, handily fending off Sega’s latest Yakuza game.
No surprises here. Pokemon Black and White launched in Japan to record numbers, moving more than 2.5 million copies of the Nintendo DS game in its first week on the market. How did Halo: Reach and Front Mission Evolved fare?
The battle for hearts and minds and portable gameplay time in Japan has been won by One Piece. The latest manga-based spin-off has kicked MonHun Nikki, the cuter version of Monster Hunter, from its top spot overseas.
Monster Hunter is huge in Japan. So in MonHun, the softer side of the monster-slaying, loot-hunting adventure series and still the best-selling game in Japan. It’s more popular than Metroid this week, which is worth noting.
The Monster Hunter brand is big in Japan. Big enough to support an adorable, gameplay changing spin-off in the form of MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Ailu Mura. It’s Japan’s biggest game right now.
A new face joins the list of best-selling games in Japan this past week as A.C.E.: Another Century’s Episode: R for the PlayStation 3 becomes the country’s currently best-selling game. It’s not the only PS3 game enjoying top 10 status.
Nintendo’s latest Wii hit shows its impressive legs once again this week, with mini-game collection Wii Party returning to its first place spot on the Japanese video game sales charts. Almost zero competition certainly helped.
Last week‘s sales champ, Sengoku Basara 3, was soundly defeated by Namco’s latest Tales game, which draws upon the powers of a big PSP install base and Japan’s love of doe-eyed anime-style characters. How well did Tales of Phantasia do?
What does Japan like this week? Feudal Japanese fantasy battles in the form of Sengoku Basara 3 and rhythm games starring vocaloid Hatsune Miku. Yep, shirtless samurai warriors and sexy singing robots are just what Japan needed more of.
After taking a breather from dominating Japan’s sales charts, Nintendo’s Wii Party continues to party hard at the top of the list. Wii Party could be a great game, so why shouldn’t it sell really well?
