Xbox 360's Lost Odyssey Sells 40k in First day sales in Japan while Uncharted for PS3 sells 7k

Feihc Retsam - 754 days 2 hours ago

How different tastes are between Asia and the U.S.

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xaphanze - 754 days 1 hour ago

Asia?You mean Japan.I have the American taste.My fav genres are FPS and TPS.My friend however has the japanese taste(RPG lover).
My favourite RPG was oblivion(american).

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unlimited - 754 days 1 hour ago

WOw, for a JRPG game Lost Odyssey sells like crap!! the biggest flop of all time in Japan compared to blue dragon and enternal sonata(no wonder this game is coming to the ps3)..Everybody should know now that JRPGs doenst do good on the xbox360 system..as for uncharted it was expected to do bad in japan since its third person shooter game and japanese people have different taste over there..

EDIT-LOL..i know the truth hurts..but no jrpg will help the 360 over there..all of it flopped..Enternal Sonata sales will do better on the PS3 count on it..

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barom - 754 days 1 hour ago

didn't blue dragon do better?

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Rick James - 753 days 23 hours ago

WTF are you talking about? The Xbox 360 has a total of 510,000 owners for Japan. It sold 40,000 copies of Lost Odyssey on it's first day. Thats almost 8% of the 360 user install base for the first day alone. Considering the Xbox 360 and it's games dont sell very well in Japan, I would say thats a great start for Lost Odyssey. Thanks for trolling. You failed horribly, good luck next time.

Oh and nice spin job on Uncharted. Lets not even go there. Seeing as how the PS3 has an install base almost 3 times as big as the 360's and it's best quality game to date only sold 7,000 on it's first day. Thats not even 1% of Japanese PS3 owners. Thats not even half a percent. Need I go on?

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SlappyMcTaint - 753 days 20 hours ago

vgchartzzzz is fcking fake! this is not news!

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BLuKhaos - 753 days 20 hours ago

soc,even though he was trolling he never said that uncharted was a fps(first person shooter,he said it was a tps(third Person Shooter).

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predator - 754 days 4 hours ago

it could be true, japanese gamers like their weird games or rpg's, i was suprised halo 3 sold well in japan, but they really have downgraded themselves now with uncharted at 7k, thats unthinkable for that game.

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perseus - 754 days 3 hours ago

and I understand why people wouldn't want it.

It's a visually stunning game, but the demo just wasn't that fun (for me obviously, I'm not making a sweeping generalization). I can't get used to TPSs, so that's probably a part of it, but look at GRAW for PS3. It's doing well at most stores here that I've been to.

Now, I'm not into RPGs, I'm more into GT, FPSs, and strategy games, but to me the low sales make a lot of sense.

edit: I love you guys. You disagree with someone when they explicitly state that what they said is their own opinion.

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mikeslemonade - 754 days 2 hours ago

After Lost Odyssey there won't be another japanese exclusive game for the 360. The PS3 is just starting one being VF5(also on 360 but does it matter), Hot Shots Golf, and most recently Dynasty Warriors. Enjoy your lead while you can 360 fanboys. :)

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gEnKiE - 754 days 2 hours ago

Ummm...why do you compare Lost Odyssey with Uncharted? Do I sense a fanboy here?

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FF7numba1 - 753 days 22 hours ago

no blood = no buy?

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sonarus - 754 days 3 hours ago

lost odyssey is as good as an xbox 360 system seller in japan as you'll get for a while

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unlimited - 754 days ago

Strong?? It is really a weak sales coming from japan and LOst odyssey is jrpg game..srry.. uncharted it was given that it will do bad....i know now final fantasy viii and versus will not be going on the 360 unless they want it to flop big time!!

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predator - 754 days 4 hours ago

ninja gaiden 2, feb 08

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shmee - 754 days 3 hours ago

considering Oblivion sold 50k on x360 on the launch day. This was x360s last cry.

NG2 wont make any impact in Japan since the Japanese dont like Ninja Gaiden .

NGS is the highest selling sequel of NG and it sold roughly 100k so NG2 wont make an impact since it is also on x360 -- a console that doesnt sell in Japan and Europe

@ the BOT below

360 is non existent in EU except in some parts of UK. However things have changed after Uncharted made its debut

www.game.co.uk ----Uncharted is the no1 selling game now

www.micromania.fr ---uncharted is pounding sales charts...so does ps3

www.amazon.fr ---x360 non existent ...ps3 right up there in the charts

www.amazon.de ---x360 non existent..ps3 right up there

and ofcourse u can get rough estimates from Vgcharts too

www.vgcharts.org/eweekly

Everything in UK changed after SINGSTAR and UNCHARTED were launched

dont be illusional garbage BOT

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predator - 754 days 2 hours ago

shmee - u have no idea what u are talking about, 360 does sell in europe, just not as good in spain and germany, in the uk its 360 and the uk is one of the biggest markets in europe, dont go post stuiped comments like that again.

the ps3 and the 360 will both do well, leave at that

Edit: u r one sad sad little boy. what you just said there is tripe, u make people owning a ps3 look bad

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resistance100 - 754 days 1 hour ago

@predator Ninja Gaiden Sigma isn't that big in japan.

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sonarus - 754 days ago

nah ninja gaiden wnt sell close to what lost odyssey sells unless they increase their install base. their next best chance is more rpg's. ninja gaiden didnt sell that well on ps3 though it was a remake but black didnt sell well there either and neither did the original xbox 1. you can disagree or be a reasonable individual and check sales data on vg chartz. sigma is the highest selling ninja gaiden in japan with about 90,000+ sold the original ninja gaiden sold 80,000

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Snukadaman - 753 days 22 hours ago

had too jump too another continent for positive news...hahahaha on topic...i dont care what anyone says...lost odyssey did quite poorly...but uncharted did abysmal...with more ps3's then xbox 360's...it just goes too prove that japan is so uninterested in next gen it aint even srating too be funny any more...lol poor shmee..predicting 200K of sales of uncharted ok shmee...NA cant even pull in 200k in 3 weeks and magically they will in europe...go pound sand shmee.

@rickjames...I own both a psp and a ds...I havent been putting in the time i use too...but i take either one with me wherever i go and i get some time playing some puzzle quest..but i have zelda and still havent finished it..both handhelds have plus and minuses for both....but if i had too pick i would pick my psp...movies...music..however you feel you can do something.

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Rick James - 753 days 21 hours ago

I just cant believe that Shmee still has 3 bubbles. We all know it's Nasim with a new account. Last time I checked this article was about first days sales numbers for new game releases in Japan. Try to stay on topic Shmee in stead of spreading your FUD about Europe.

As for this topic. Judging by these sales figures the handhelds have really taken over the Japanese videogame market. Maybe it's time I broke down and got a handheld too. Am I missing the boat on this? Maybe its a preference thing. I would just rather play HD videogames on my LCD HDTV in the comfort of my home. Does anybody have any good feedback on the handheld vs console debate?

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razer - 753 days 21 hours ago

Shmee = owned

No love for DudeRaider in Japan?? (i kid)

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poet215 - 753 days 14 hours ago

Okay, if Nasim is secretly posing as Shmee............then what's your previous screen name? Being that your first post came on 11-19-2007, & Nasim's last post came 11-1-2007.

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perseus - 754 days 3 hours ago

See, I don't think it has to do with difficulty, it has to do with interest. RFOM has a great story and I think has done well here, but it's an FPS. Uncharted has an interesting looking story (I don't know all of it), and the graphics are way better than RFOM, but it just doesn't grab me.

Frankly, I rarely understand why games are popular in the West (except COD and the like), and I'm from Toronto.

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devilhunterx - 754 days 2 hours ago

More weird is people playing sports games on a console

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lonestarmt - 754 days 2 hours ago

its not wierd. Look at america, all they really care about is shooter games. They prob look at the US and think their dumb or wierd too. Whats your point? Its not weird it just different. You mean Japan actually prefers a game made by japanese over a shooter game made by westerners, I'm shocked!

PS. no offense to uncharted. I have it and its actually my favorite next gen title.

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BloodySinner - 754 days 2 hours ago

North America in general embraces all types of games in general, not just shooters.

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lonestarmt - 754 days 1 hour ago

they do to, in fact they play more types of games than anyone in NA. Most of which don't even make over to NA. Halo 3 and fall of man did well in Japan. Its simple NA loves shooters so even a average shooter will sell really well, so average rpg sell well in Japan. Only first tier rpgs sell well in NA, ie Final fantasy. Its the same both country's just different styles. I fail to see that NA is more sophisticated and less open than Japan. Think about it Zelda, mario, shadow of the colossus, final fantasy, DDR, the wii, Resident evil, devil may cry, DW, MGS,street fighter and those are just the well known games and inovations. Mr. mosiquito and katamari damacy are perfect example of obscure titles. Shoot most of those invinted the genres that we soo love today. Western games call of duty, doom, mass effect, halo, KOTOR, wolfeinstien, half-life, GTA, medal of honor, bioshock. See a pattern in those games??? GTA did change the whole sandbox style games, but looking at this one could very easily argure that Japan not NA, play more types and invent new games. Not saying NA type games are bad though, just Japan as always been the leader.

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i Shank u - 754 days ago

weird is playing sports games? compared to what, playing spiky haired boys emulating life and saving princesses?

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shmee - 754 days 3 hours ago

It is no1 game at GAME UK

www.game.co.uk

It is on the amazon charts of UK,GERMANY and FRANCE.

Uncharted has also done a decent job in NA too.

Uncharted will reach 1m in sales after this holiday

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Zhuk - 754 days 3 hours ago

Uncharted will sell poorly like all PS3 games and fail to make a profit, driving support away from the stagnating console.

Poor Sony, even their biggest exclusives bomb while nearly every game that is released on the Xbox 360 is guaranteed to outsell it.

Like rats off a sinking ship, they all want to Jump In

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