According to the interview to SCET(SCE Taiwan) by Famistsu Taiwan this month, SCET claim that the best selling traditional Chinese game in Asia by now is God of War 3, which has sold 180k since it released. The second place is Uncharted 2, about 100k.

These data also make SE agree to release a traditional Chinese version of FFXIII.

ps. The "Asia" called by SCET contains Taiwan, Hong Kong/Macao, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia.

How much of Asian sales do these countries represent? I'm guessing South Korea also has some decent sales normally?

SCET didn't count the sells in South Korea....Korean get their own version...

I think Sony doesn't put South Korea as a member in Asia..just like Japan...

Sony's trying to dominate Chinese mindshare before anyone else does. Smart.

@gary: I don't doubt the credibility of this, but a link would be nice.

Honestly, I think South East Asian figures (and even figures from Korea, etc.) probably account for some of our discrepancies with Sony's shipment figures. They're regions that neither we nor anybody else can reasonably track, and they're regions that really only Sony bothers to support (both in hardware and software releases, which is why it's no surprise two first party Sony titles might be the two best selling games in this area - hell, Sony published FFXIII in this region for Square Enix).

Well, that's why they've been so successful in Europe.  They were the first company to bring gaming to much of Europe, and in many Eastern European countries they are still the only company that provides full support for their products.  Countries like Poland and Russia, for example, have access to PSN but not XBL, even though both ps3s and 360s are officially sold in both countries.

Tackling burgeoning markets has been Sony's strategy since the ps1 era.  They're currently expanding into markets like Brazil and the Phillipines, markets I doubt either Microsoft or Nintendo will enter for at least a few more years.

I think that is one region which is a reason of discrepancy for the sony hardware shipment and VGC sold to customer numbers also.

I'm from Singapore, and I saw the copy of FFXIII with ORIGINAL Japanese voice over and Chinese/English subtext. How I want to throw my English copy with the SCREECHING Vanille voice out of the window.

Vanile kill off my passion for the game.

I've been saying the same thing for a while now, especially since the recent PS family launches in Vietnam and the Philippines. We're probably going to be seeing adjustments whenever Sony decides to give specific numbers for regions like South America and Asia. On a related note I wish we could get GOW3 shipment data for South America. I know for a fact that it's undertracked in Americas.

Precisely:

Sony Poland - localization of games, full working PSN with Polish shop where people can pay with polish credit cards, polish PSN cards, only thing missing is some video/music service but with assholes from polish version of RIAA around it's understandable.

Microsoft Poland - localizes games and spends rest of time bitching about piracy and giving excusses why Live! wasn't introduced in 2007,2008,2009,....) while people have to register with fake adressess and have to shop for xbox live cards on ebay or other such services.

Nintendo - sells through distributor, sometimes sends auto-translated by google press notes to polish portals. Without the cult Mario/Pokemon following from NES/SNES generation they are dead last in all rankings (which is why i always laugh when i see Nintendo shown as outselling competitors in Other Europe)