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Blood_Tears on 03 December 2010

First Day Sales Numbers Of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd and Tales of Graces F

Link: http://thesilentchief.com/2010/12/03/first-day-sales-numbers-of-monster-hunter-portable-3rd-and-tales-of-graces-f/

First Day Sales Numbers Of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd and Tales of Graces F

By Sakinah D Rasheed– December 3, 2010Posted in: This week in Japan

It’s no secret that Capcom’s Monster Hunter franchise is popular in Japan. This week thousands of fans waited in line for the series’ third release on the PSP. Monster Hunter Portable 3rd went on sale December 1st in Japan and quickly sold over 90% of it’s initial shipment. 

Day one sales of MHP3rd came in at 365,000. Week one sales of the game may be close to the 520,000 units  Monster Hunter Tri sold for the Wii back in 2009.

The enhanced PS3 port of the once Wii exclusive, Tales of Graces, went on sale a day after Monster Hunter 3rd and according to reports the rpg move only 42,000 copies.

In comparison, first day sales of the Wii version released on December 10th  2009 in Japan were twice as much, coming in at 113,000 copies sold.

Monster Hunter 3rd and Tales of Grace F were the only two notable releases in Japan for the week.Total day one sales of other games, including Namco Bandia’s Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes OOO ( a game based off of the popular Kamen Rider Series in Japan) for the Wii and PSP were 5,000, with the PSP version outpacing it’s Wii counterpart.



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ChichiriMuyo on 03 December 2010

Wow.  I'd have thought they'd sold more.  The last PSP release sold close to 900k first week.



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zgamer5 on 03 December 2010

didnt it have about 1.9 million pre orders according to vgc?



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Grimes on 03 December 2010
zgamer5 said:

didnt it have about 1.9 million pre orders according to vgc?


Some were predicting the biggest opening of all time.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=117067



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dark_gh0st_b0y on 03 December 2010

i also thought they'd sell more



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Blood_Tears on 03 December 2010
zgamer5 said:

didnt it have about 1.9 million pre orders according to vgc?

Yeah apparently so, at least that's what Japan preview kept saying. Along with the possibility of being one of biggest launches this yr. 



RafaelOrix on 03 December 2010

90% of the initial shipment sold? And how it can be that low? I doubt Capcom shipped so little. 



dark_gh0st_b0y on 03 December 2010

something's not right....



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hiroko on 03 December 2010

fake



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Buzzi on 03 December 2010

I don't trust this numbers, they seem pretty low for both games. I could not believe Capcom shipped less than 500k, that's the number of preordered games back in September I think! Plus all the lines in the streets...and looking at the previous entries...how could this be possible? Well...now the chances of Pokemon B/W to have the best FW in Japan by the end of the gen are increasing.



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