First day sold in japan, Folks Soul bombs hard...

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MikeB said:

i wouldnt put to much fate in this list, this is a very select hardcore gamer group. gundam was also on number 4 or 5 in this list before it got released. it didnt do that good either.

Gundam Masou is by far the best sold PS3 game so far for Japan, so IMO the list does mean something. However 1 interesting title will not sell a console unless it's a Final Fantasy, Wii Sports or Super Mario game combined with positive reviews, especially if the console is expensive. The more interesting titles appear, the easier it's to justify opening your wallet.

Likewise Blue Dragon was also on their list and did wonders for the XBox 360, weekly hardware sales have ever since its release been multiplied as compared to how dire the situation was before (still pretty hopeless though).

Given Namco's claim that an average PS3 game requires 500,000 copies sold to break even, doing well for a PS3 game, as Gundam did, or doing extremely well for a 360 game, as Blue Dragon did, simply are not enough. Both games almost certainly lost a good deal of money.

These things aren't completely relative. Sure, systems with different sized user bases can expect their games to sell at relatively different clips, but no system has a relative relationship with money. You either make money, or you don't. Calling Gundam Mosou a relative success in Japan for the PS3 is still a failure, because the real goal is to earn money.

The only games, thus far, that have made any real money on the PS3 are world release ones, especially Resistance and Motorstorm. Japanese centric and Japan-only games are basically a complete bomb thus far.