Yup even beating the newly crowned leader Pokemon Black/White at 2.6 million first week, I believe Monster Hunter Freedom 3 on the PSP can be the biggest launch for a game in Japan ever.
Here's the facts:
A look at the pre-orders.
Sept5: 440K
Sept12: 560K
Sept19: 650K
Sept26: 750K
In a month it received 300K+ preorders, MHF3 is releasing in Japan December 1, 2010 (2 months away still), so let's say this pattern keeps up, that's another 600K preorders or 1.35 million pre-orders in total (I assume close to the launch the number will go up drastically, so this should be about the MINIMUM number of preorders). Pokemon Black/White had 1.65 million pre-orders when it launched.
In the daily updated charts Monster Hunter Freedom 3 is by far the highest scored game with 2299 points, second place being GT5 with 290 points.
Also just a heads up here's Japans top 10 first week games
| 1 |
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2010 | 1 | 2,609,129 | 2,609,129 | ||
| 2 |
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1999 | 1 | 2,592,405 | 2,592,405 | ||
| 3 |
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2009 | 1 | 2,338,221 | 2,338,221 | ||
| 4 |
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2004 | 1 | 2,267,827 | 2,267,827 | ||
| 5 |
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2000 | 1 | 2,031,207 | 2,031,207 | ||
| 6 |
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1997 | 1 | 2,025,834 | 2,025,834 | ||
| 7 |
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2001 | 1 | 1,906,152 | 1,906,152 | ||
| 8 |
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2000 | 1 | 1,821,450 | 1,821,450 | ||
| 9 |
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2006 | 1 | 1,819,872 | 1,819,872 | ||
| 10 |
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2006 | 1 | 1,646,064 | 1,646,064 |
If Monster Hunter Freedom 3 doesn't make first it'll definitely be in the top 3.
