Yakuza 3 tops Japanese sales charts
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, Sony PlayStation 3. Tagged with Sales Chart.
One half of Sega Nerds’ forum charts duo, Aki-at, sends us word that Yakuza 3 has just had a very, very successful opening week in Japan. In its opening day, it sold 113,000 copies and ended its first week on retail shelves selling 178,000 copies and placing it atop of this week’s sales charts, according to Famitsu.
Looking back at how the previous two games in the series fared in their opening weeks, puts Yakuza 3 smack dab in the middle. It sold right around 50,000 copies more than Yakuza but is still well under the 281,000 Yakuza 2 reached in its first week debut. However, that’s not a knock on Yakuza 3, though. You have to keep in mind the install base for the PlayStation 2 at the time was considerably larger than what the PlayStation 3 is currently at.
We just hope that with the overwhelming amount of positive press from Western media and the great reception from gamers, Sega will be forced to bring it our way, even with all the possible nonessential cursing.
[Thanks for the tip, Aki-At!]
Comments on this article
There have been 7 responses to this article.
If Sega is bringing Yakuza 2 to the United States, it WILL bring this ….
George
Posted March 13th, 2008 at 10:36 am.
Hopefully subtitled and not dubbed in English, or at least the option.
Emmett The Crab
Posted March 13th, 2008 at 10:54 am.
I liked the dubb for the first one, just didn’t like the extra FUCK words every now and then.
George
Posted March 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am.
I liked the dub overall as well, swearing and all! The only problem is that the side characters, and I mean the punks who appear for one scene, not guys like Date and Mujima, they sounded pretty forced. All the main actors did a fine job though.
And as far as I know, Sony makes third parties put a dub into their games.
Aki-at
Posted March 13th, 2008 at 11:21 am.
I don’t understand all this “too much cursing” whining. It’s EXACTLY this way in the original version, if not worse.
Sanshiro
Posted March 13th, 2008 at 12:57 pm.
Ryu Ga Gotoku: Kenzan! HELL YES…
congrats to Nagoshi san and his Shenmue-like title.
Regards-Alimn
alimn
Posted March 13th, 2008 at 1:05 pm.
Gonna pick that up this evening - so consider it 178,001 sold copies now ;)
develin
Posted March 14th, 2008 at 2:58 am.