Japan sales: Media Create, Famitsu and Dengeki - week 24 ( June 10 - June 16 )

[eFKac]

Carl2291 said:

eFKac said:

Boutros said:
The Last of Us >100k next week??

Nah I say most probably the other way around The Last of Us <100k.

Japanese gamers just do not embrace anything the is not japanese. No matter the quality.

Uncharted 3 launched in Japan with ~120k units.

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/49054/uncharted-3-drakes-deception/Japan/

Yeah, I'm not saying a non Japanese game cannot open higher than 100k, I just said TLoU won't in my opinion. 

And well the second sentence is still valid, since U3 only sold 200k there LTD. It's peanuts in the overall sales of this game. There are games that sold even more, but it's always a small fraction of the overall sales: GTA IV sold 550k in Japan, that's big, but not anymore when the game sold 20m on consoles.

More examples: You have LBP selling 120k there, from a game that cannot be labeled culturally. 

Ratchet & Clank ToD: 80k 

God of War 3: 120k from aprox. 5m, compared to 180k sold DMCs, published by Capcom (GoW also way more critically acclaimed)

Resident Evil 6 sold here 650k first week, a game that was slammed for being very "westernised", cattering to the CoD gamer, even Capcom themselves said that, so Japanese gamers should ignore it. But they didn't, cause it's a japanese game. It also got mixed reviews. TLoU reviews are stellar. First week sales will be comparable, aprox 1,3m. And we'll be seing less than 1/6th of the sales.