Like every Monday the major Japanese retail and rental chain Tsutaya released its weekly sales charts, that are usually considered a nice glimpse on what the Media Create charts will look like on Wednesday, since Tsutaya has a very large number of stores scattered across the whole country.

And this time around, there’s a surprise, with a western game breaking the Pokémon domination.

You can check out the chart below, with new titles bolded.

1. Battlefield 4 – PS3 
2. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2013 – PS3
3. Pokémon X – 3DS
4. Monster Hunter 4 – 3DS
5. Grand Theft Auto V – PS3
6. Akiba’s Trip 2 – PS Vita
7. Pokemon Y – 3DS
8. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2013 – PS Vita
9. Akiba’s Trip 2 – PS3
10. Gundam Breaker – PS Vita
11. Namco Bandai Games Presents: J Legend Retsuden – 3DS
12. Oneechanbara Z Kagura with Nonono – PS3
13. Wii Party U – Wii U
14. Metal Max 4: Moonlight Diva – 3DS
15. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2013 – PS Vita
16. Danball Senki Wars – 3DS
17. Exstetra – PS Vita
18. NBA 2K14 – PS3
19. Sentocho Densetsu No Shinobi to Survival Battle -3DS
20. BlazBlue: Chronophantasma – PS3

Apparently Battlefield 4, strongly advertised in Japan and part of a fairly popular franchise in the archipelago of the rising sun despite being made in the west, managed to break the Pokémondomination. Of course we’ll have to wait for Wednesday and the Media Create software charts for a confirmation, as Tsutaya lists Pokémon X and Y separately, but X ranked only 3rd Y is far enough down in the charts for a very real possibility of a dethroning to exist.

It’s also interesting to see that Akiba’s Trip 2 sold more on PS Vita than on PS3, which is starting to be a common trend for first week sales of many games. Oneechanbara didn’t exactly debut with a big spash, but after all it’s mostly a remake, and a niche one to begin with, while unfortunately Exstetra seems to have started quite slow, landing on 17th place for the PS Vita, while the 3DS version is nowhere to be seen.

It’s a pity, considering that the game looks promising, but FuRyu is a small company, and its marketing power isn’t exactly immense.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/11/11/battlefield-4-breaks-pokemons-domination-in-japan-according-to-major-retailers-sales-charts/

Pokemon will get back on top the next week!

I just wanted to note that this is the weirdest title and the most unexpected one i've ever had the pleasure of posting here!!

Is Japan opening up to western games? Call of Duty is doing better and better over there. GTA5 has sold really well and has outdid it's predecessor a short while ago and now Battlefield 4.

Are we witnessing something?

Dont forget this store isnt as kind to Nintendo (meaning this store has less NintyFans) as shown last week with Wii Party U!

Anyway i'll laugh if Pokemon XY is 1st again in media create chart, 2 weeks ago there was a similar title with pokemon loses its top spot but it actually was nowhere close

It seems that Japanese games will soon be irrelevant in Japan too :P

I dont think so, cuz God Eater 2 releases in 3 days.

Damn I forgot about that! Then don't mind my comment, God Eater will probably take the number one spot that week and maybe the next week too xD

Then the week after GE2, SM3DW will own the charts

Last week it said that Jikkyou sold more than Pokemon x and Pokemon Y and turned out wrong. It's one sales group and it can be misleading. Of course it's very possible Battle Field did indeed end up first but it's not a great reference nonetheless.

BF4 is truly a beast of a game to even do that.