I agree...pretty much. But it's still a weekend. Shouldn't it be more impressive than, say, during the week?

Still, I remember earlier in the year when there was like 6 points over EVERYTHING COMBINED. So it ain't that bad.

I like to look those charts (either pre-orders or sales) not focusing on the best sellers or looking it like a competition. It is more important for me as an assessment of the state of Japanese gaming industry, the health of some companies, and the future of some franchises that interest me.

Being so, I am glad to see the recent numbers. No one will match the best sellers this year, but even the pre-order and the sales charts are showing a better state for the industry than a few months and weeks ago. Now we are seeing good numbers not only for 2 or 3 games, but a lot of "mid-tier" games doing fine. For example, today, the charts are good because it is not important only to invent a competition between God Eater 2 Vita versus Puzzle and Dragons Z only to say "Nintendo pwns Sony" or "Sony pwns Nintendo".

It is good to see that games like Drakengard 3, Hyperdimension Neptunia Rebirth and Blazblue are on their way of doing well, so we may see Square Enix, for example, trusting more in traditional games for consoles and handhelds instead of moving everything to mobile as social games.

we are in a thread about pre-orders in Japan. One would think the performance in Japan is the only performance that matters.

I was refering to software sales.

You might be right about which game gives a bigger boost to hardware, but you also might be wrong. If Puzzles and Dragons is a bigger game in Japan, then it needs to push less consoles per game sold to match the boost God Eater 2 gives. Plus since God Eater 2 is available on PSP, I'm sure a lot of current PSP owners would be reluctant to upgrade systems.

God Eater isn't really big enough to be very mainstream, so if anything the very obvious differences between PSP/Vita versions will encourage more to upgrade. Especially after seeing their friends play the better version. See Toukiden for an example, but God Eater will be bigger and have higher production values.

Toukiden gave PSP a 30% (~2k) boost in sales and PSV a 52% (~11k) boost in sales. It also only sold ~50% better on PSV then PSP. That means quite a few people stuck with their PSP and played the lower end version (I don't see a huge difference in graphics). If a lot of people stick with their PSP for GE2 like they did Toukiden, then people should have friends on both consoles.

Now, if say Puzzles & Dragons is 50% bigger of a game then God Eater 2, then it only needs to boost hardware by 66% as much as GE2 to match it. P&D might do that.

Plus, it really matters how you look at it. PSV might see a larger % boost in sales due to God Eater 2, but 3DS will likely see a bigger # boost (more extra units sold) due to P&D because the system is significantly more popular, and the game is bigger.

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P.S. YEA Drakengard! Climb! CLIMB!

PDZ will likely be a slow burn (parents making kids wait for otoshidama to get one) whereas GE's impact on HW will be almost entirely 1st week.

Or PDZ will hit hard first week AND "burn slowly" for a couple months. :-O

lol, we'll see what happens, I wonder what big Vita game will replace God Eater 2? Freedom Wars?

Little Brawlers and One Piece are contenders to make it in my list. Especially OP. I'm surprised at how badly it's doing.