Pokemon Diamond and Pearl did better than i thought first week hard to believe the first Pokemon game sold 265,000 copies first week

http://www.vgchartz.com/japweekly.php?date=35127

Dragon Quest IX will break that top 10 easily. Wonder where it'll end up falling.

Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Pokemon have the better first week sales, but Pokemon have the better sales lifetime.

@ Soriku: Final Fantasy 7-9 were the last ok games in the series. The best game came out on the SNES and the second best in the series was also on the SNES. The PS2 games were just awful. FF7 was cool at the time but didn't age well at all. FF9 was probably the best PS1 FF game....

OMG FF8 is the number one :D Yeah... Best game in the world hands down :D Go Squally :D Wow ff13 may kick some serious ass in debut week sales :)

DQ
FF
FF
DQ
Pokemon
FF
FF
DQ
Pokemon
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DQ
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17. PS Derby Stallion 1997.07.17 920,565

Wait... What? SSBB who? Never heard of this game, for it being so sucessful.

Didn't know RE was that front loaded. It got a lot weaker after it left the PS.

The Japanese like the number 8. So more people rushed out to get the VIII versions of DQ and FF.

http://news24.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/gamenews/1206538544/243
http://www.famitsu.com/game/rank/top30/1214613_1134.html 

Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP, Capcom)
First Week = 823,265

problem i have with this list is that it only goes back 2 generations. I know famitsu has data that goes back further i don't know why they don't use it. For example street fighter 2 sold over a million first week.

Yay ... the PSP just has another title that reached the list :D