Japan sales: Famitsu & Media create - Week 10 ( Mar 4 - Mar 10 )

[Kresnik]

Holy shit. Most exciting Japanese numbers in ages and I have exams all morning so I miss it.

It's kinda disappointing how people have come here already to play down these numbers. Last week all the predictions were in the 35-45k region for Vita hardware and I think I only saw a couple of 100k+ predictions for Soul Sacrifice. Both of these have been exceeded, so even if it is true that it's "downhill from here", I still find it impressive. I was secretly hoping that Vita hardware would hold around the 60k mark; I didn't expect it to actually increase. And Soul Sacrifice having the third highest opening of a Vita game in Japan is impressive for a new IP. Now for the legs. I hope it inherits God Eater & Monster Hunter's legs.

Other surprises: Far Cry 3 opened way stronger than I expected. Good for it.

Onto the less pleasing: I'm disappointed with Senran Kagura's drop. I thought the sellouts in first week would've meant there might've been a strong demand for second week, but I guess not. Not surprised by Phantasy Star's drop, since I figure anyone who wanted to pay money for a F2P game would've done it in the first week.

Shining Ark also dropping like a rock, disappointing; won't get close to Blade or Heart's numbers. Wii-U is also continuing the downward trend, I wonder what number it'll reach before Dragon Quest X releases. One of these trackers will probably have it below 9k next week.

But yeah, awesome week. As always, thanks Noctis.