Yakuza series director Toshihiro Nagoshi said during launch day interviews that Yakuza 4 had seen the highest initial shipment in series history. He's since followed up on this with a similar message of success at his blog.

On Friday, one day after the game's release, Nagoshi wrote: "It's flying off shelves. It's to the point that we feel it may break records in Yakuza series history."

The Yakuza team's official blog confirmed the game's initial success, writing on the 19th: "Yakuza 4 was released on 3/18. It's selling well. First day sales are number one for the series."

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/03/20/record_sales_for_yakuza_4/

So that's over 300k?

Yakuza 4 is awesome. I play now yakuza 3 =) good game, best japanese game with Metal Gear Solid 4 for me

Excellent

FF13 broke records in the west, Yakuza 4 did it in the east

EXCELLENT MONTH FOR PLAYSTATION

Oh and a little something called GOW3 is breaking records as we speak!

Yep. Ps3 is a god

PS3,
It only does RECORDS :)

Considering that the US life-time sales of Yakuza and Yakuza 2 are 52k each, that's not a huge achievement.

EDIT: wrong Yakuza and wrong region. Double fail on my part.

dolemit3, i think you're confused.

Do you mean:

The same game that was meant to sell 350K LTD but will end up doing more than 5 times that?

The same game thats selling "beyond the developers wildest dreams"?

"That game" is surprising me with its mega-awesome legs....Barely a 40k drop from second week to third is nothing short of LEEEEEGS dammit ! Its even more so special considering thr poor legs of ME2 which disappointed me immensely.

ioi predicts a first week for GoW around 1.3m to 1.4m making it the second biggest launch week for a PS3 exclusive ever ! Had it sold a few 100k better, it would be the fastest selling PS3 exclusive ! With 0000 support from Japan...

I hope FFXIII and GoW III don't suffer from horrible legs like ME2....