Yakuza 3 sells 113,000 copies on day one

3:42pm, 7th of Mar '08

Posted by George. Filed under Japan, Sony PlayStation 3. Tagged with Sales Chart.

According to Shinobi, Yakuza 3 (Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan!) has sold 113,000 units on its first day of release in Japan. This already exceeds Virtua Fighter 5’s lifetime total. The game has already made a name for itself on the PlayStation 3 top 10 first day sales charts:

Dynasty Warriors 6 170,000 units
Devil May Cry 4 140,000 units
Gundam Musou 117,000 units
Yakuza 3 113,000 units
Winning Eleven 2008 107,000 units
Hot Shots Golf 5 103,000 units
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue 50,000 units
Bladestorm: The Hundred 40,000 units
Disgaea 3 40,000 units
Assassin’s Creed 20,000 units

Let’s hope that Valkyrie of the Battlefield performs well too. Now those of us in the western world wait for Yakuza 2, then hopefully this one.

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Comments on this article

There have been 7 responses to this article.

This is all good, a fully deserved sale (Perhaps even more!) from the impressions I’ve been hearing with this game from fans of the series, seems to be a true AAA game for the Playstation 3, now SEGA needs to release it in the West, I’m sure the fan following for Yakuza has grown quite a bit by now!

Aki-at

Posted March 7th, 2008 at 6:14 pm.

That would be cool if they included Yakuza 2 and 3 in one package for us westerners.

Emmett The Crab

Posted March 7th, 2008 at 7:11 pm.

I also would like to see the option to have Japanese dialogue with subtitles. I think the amount of swearing in Yakuza makes it a little silly. So much of what people say are just rearranging sentences with forms of “fuck” and “shit”.

Emmett The Crab

Posted March 7th, 2008 at 7:14 pm.

Yeah, I was really surprised with the ridiculous amounts of cuss words in Yakuza.

Now don’t get me wrong, I can appreciate swear words in my games when they are used in the right way and can compliment the game’s dialogue, but it just seemed like Sega was trying to be too hardcore.