Tales of Vesperia Is Xbox 360's Fastest Selling Game In Japan

Fishy Fingers - 509 days 4 hours ago

I see what your saying but the 360 doesnt have a exclusive JRPG every month.

Disagrees? The 360 DOES have an exclusive every month? Wow thought I would of read about them...

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doshey - 509 days 4 hours ago

wow so a game sells 100,000 copies big woop mgs 4 sold somewhere in the 4 million to 3.5 million copies does that mean its the beginning of the ps3 no, and like ^^^ said there aint going to be enough games to keep the 360 sales steady just sayin

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Mao - 509 days 4 hours ago

I like the fact we get Disgaea 3 and Valkyria Chronicles exclusive this fall, but they made little impact in Japan. Maybe the 360's success will get Sony to push Level 5 and WKC quicker.

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 509 days 4 hours ago

@ doshey

100k in week one can mean a million or more in a few months. But still. The more Japanese people see JRPG's are on the 360 first and most, you might see the switch in the end.

People don't want to feel left out of their favorite genre of games. The PS3 is and will be for a long time.

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sonarus - 509 days 4 hours ago

Lol. Why get your hopes up. As long as the PS3 is still alive the 360 has no hope in Japan. 2 yrs and only 500,000 sold??? Its an unfair situation but it is what it is. You still forget that PS3 is the only place to play FFXII in Japan and you know thats all that matters in Japan so too bad. The 360 RPG's are nice and at most it just creates dual console owners

Even shane kim has accepted that Japan is a dead end. I suggest you do to

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ass_divine - 509 days 4 hours ago

http://www.n4g.com/NewsCom-...

"Let this be a lesson to everyone! Shipped and sold are not the same"

Good advice!

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iamtehpwn - 509 days 4 hours ago

Would've been 300k for PS3, but 100K is very impressive for 360-japan.
If Microsoft sees those numbers you can bet your ass They're going to try to make FFXIII-Japan a reality.

Of course, I don't think Square will because they Just want Finish off FFXIII for PS3 in Japan and get those sales into recoop major loses.

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XxZxX - 509 days 4 hours ago

sakaguchi say hi, been there, done that.

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doshey - 509 days 3 hours ago

mgs 4 had 4 million shipped at the end of june, and what u trying to say its not near that mark of sold cuz im pretty sure a whole month later there would of been enough sales to get it into the 3.5 million range

and mart 360 selling a million systems in a month or few please two years and u guys are still under a million 1 year sony has over 1.5 million so just give up on japan already

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kinggeoff - 509 days 3 hours ago

what is this, a team sport?

Us guys are GAMERS. Just because you want to wave a sony flag and try to piss on everything microsoft, doesn't mean the rest of us are so shortsighted or shallow. Theyre game systems. Please go out and live your life

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beoulve - 509 days 2 hours ago

kinggeoff, so rooting for team sports is fine but rooting for consoles is not? why kind of logic is that. who set the rules that you can only rooting for team sports and still has life. if you root for consoles, you automatically lose yours.

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juuken - 509 days 2 hours ago

...That made little sense.

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MNicholas - 508 days 6 hours ago

is something that Microsoft is known for and this is yet another one of those cases. Predictably it's moved some hardware in Japan but for Microsoft to truly win over all those tens of millions of gamers who are simply waiting for the next PS3 price drop Microsoft will have to pay for a lot more exclusives.

Sony, meanwhile, are surely in a bit of bother because unlike Microsoft they cant afford to just hand out $20M+ to every other developer out there. This is where issues of monopolistic practices rear their ugly head and little bit of free and fair competition that exists (nothings 100% free and fair anyway) starts to fall apart.

Imagine if the American car companies got together and paid Mobil and Sunoco to never put gasoline in any car that's not an American brand. They wouldn't be buying all the gasoline just paying to ensure that a large number of Gas stations do not serve owners of those other cars. All of a sudden owning a foreign brand car would become very inconvenient. This is Microsoft's strategy.

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FordGTGuy - 509 days 4 hours ago

sold 24,000 in Japan the week of the launch of Tales of Vesperia.

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militant07 - 509 days 3 hours ago

i feel sorry for you
you real sad little fanboy -,-
same comment in every atricle in this site

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iamtehpwn - 509 days 3 hours ago

LUL.
I fail.
I didn't see the jk. =[

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boodybandit - 509 days 3 hours ago

.....

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militant07 - 508 days 11 hours ago

your fraky idiot
i now its joke
but your doing this everytime you post, and do you think that no one read your post in open zone.
its like say anything you want and at end type "JK"
your really IDIOT

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Cajun Chicken - 509 days 3 hours ago

I don't really like RPG's, but nearly every other genre of game is on the PS3 now.
If that's what the majority are playing on consoles, it should be sorted. There's enough FPS and racing games now Sony, concentrate on the other main marketable genre...and make some damn Platformers/action adventures like the old days while you're at it, oh and a new Devil Dice/Bombastic/XI.

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juuken - 509 days 3 hours ago

I'm not saying "Microsoft FTW", but they do deserve some credit for moving a game like this. But I also think they'll need more than that to gain a foothold in Japan.

This agree/disagree system is so broken sometimes, I swear.

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juuken - 509 days 2 hours ago

Oh, I get it.

Most of disagrees stem from the hatred 360 fans have for me so no matter how I give Microsoft some credit, the disagree button will be slammed.

I gotcha.

Listen, I really don't care ya know? I didn't ask anyone to like me here.

Enjoy your victory in Japan while it lasts. :)

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SkyGamer - 509 days 1 hour ago

juuken, I gave you some bubbles. People are probably just use to your old comments and not being the wiser think you are just using sarcasm. Your comment was a good one as you stated facts, ps3 needs more jrpg's and not a year or two from now but now. It might take some time for people to get used to juuken 2.0. Don't worry, they will see you for who you are. Eventually you can't run from the truth.

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Robondacob - 509 days 1 hour ago

La Chance, you are not any better than Juuken. You are making fun of someone on a videogame website. It does not get any worse than that.

Why don't you do something for this website other than make fun of people who own a different console?

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Tarasque - 509 days ago

Actually i bet it is the sony fans that are giving you disagrees, cause you are giving the 360 and MS some props.

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juuken - 508 days 23 hours ago

...Whatever LaChance.
Like I said, some of you don't know me that well. You want to accuse me of trolling and yet you do the same thing. Nobody like *who* doesn't want me here LaChance? I have a right to be here just like anyone else.

Your words do not hurt me in any way whatsoever.

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DaKid - 509 days 3 hours ago

Star "Ocean" 4, see what i did there?

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Common Sense - 509 days 3 hours ago

They'll evaporate due to diffusion (Movement of substances from higher concentration to lower concentration) and vaporize due the heat of the sun.

Edit
I meant evaporate. I meant diffusion as well. It will also vaporize due the heat from the sun and osmosis does not require a living cell. It's movement of water across a semi-permeable membrane (cell membranes are semi-permeable because they have phospholipid bilayers. The heads are hydrophilic, and the tails are hydrophobic).

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DaKid - 509 days 3 hours ago

Don't you mean evaporation? osmosis would require a living cell of some sort. http://www.merriam-webster....

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green - 509 days 3 hours ago

Someone seems to be having a bad day.

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NinjaRyu - 509 days 3 hours ago

Sorry man but that's just not gonna happen here on n4g at all. Telling fanboys to stop talking sh!t about other console & stop praising there console of choice is like my mom telling me to stop dating Asian Women! You can say & wish it all you want but it not gonna stop them from doing what they want!

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Daishi - 508 days 20 hours ago

Shredder you do realize you have to click the comments button to read them right, or do you just want the whole section to your lonesome? I know when I speak I don't have to make sense but sheesh your taking it a little too far...

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doshey - 509 days 3 hours ago

because alot of people were not into 360 at the time and thought it would of been a waste.... ah screw it i cant change this at all

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LossTheEarthbreaker - 509 days 3 hours ago

Lol it had nothing to do with extra discs.

It has to do with Lost Odyssey being extremely uninspired and Tales of Vesperia being a great game.

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Skadoosh - 509 days 3 hours ago

Lost Odyssey is a new franchise and did well. Tales of Vesperia already has a huge fanbase. Big difference.

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LossTheEarthbreaker - 509 days 2 hours ago

Not sure why anyone disagreed with Ska, but he's right and it makes more sense than my input.

I still hold that I didn't feel Lost Odyssey was particularly good or inspired to be in the first place, but it definitely sold okay, but was seen more as a JRPG for Americans in Japan.

Tales, as skadoosh mentioned, is already established in Japan.

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nieto - 509 days 3 hours ago

it's a Tales series game. everybody was expecting this...
on top of that this it's like the first time since the x360 launch that the console it's selling well.

really do you even know what you're talking about? it seems that you just write the first thing that comes to your mind.

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juuken - 509 days 3 hours ago

...Why are you such an immature little douchebag?

This was *expected*. While Microsoft deserves credit for moving some consoles, after this game finishes it's run...they will go back down again. It's not like they have rpg's every month or something.

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solidjun5 - 509 days 3 hours ago

I mean you're getting a hard-on on this, when you already knew this was expected due to "Tales" games being popular. Like I said, you're something.

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Pain - 508 days 7 hours ago

Xbox sells some in japan and the kids get all wet.

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 509 days 4 hours ago

You mean the Wii succes, right? The PS3 is back at selling below 10k a week. What did it sell in Japan, 1.5 mln. or 2 mln. by now? The 360 might just be on what 700k, but the Wii is the real winner here

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doshey - 509 days 4 hours ago

lets see mart u got that from vgcharts when sony is phasing out there system so dont even try to pull this crap

only thing im agreeing with u is on the wii part

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XxZxX - 509 days 3 hours ago

lol, themarts, even though Wii is the real winner, PS3 still kicking XBOX 360 ass. XBOX King?? more like XBOX the last loser to me.

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Saint Sony - 509 days 3 hours ago

Of course Wii wins, even PS3 owners agree on that. Tell us something new.

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Common Sense - 509 days 3 hours ago

Ps3 has sold more this year than the 360. The Ps3's game library has been increasing and the Ps3 sales have been on par with the Ps2's and it has surpassed the 360's (The 360 sold less in the same amount of time regardless of the fact in 2005 and most of 2006, it was the only next-gen console). The 360 got most of its JRPGs in 2008(about 2 and half years into its life-cycle). Game development takes about as long, somtimes longer, on the Ps3 in comparison to the 360. So if you are going to compare the 360's rpg lineup to the Ps3's, then wait till next year. Then you can compare the RPG lineups.

You said you won't be gaming in 10 years. That was just stupid.

Anal Cavity? You mean Rectum. The anus is the opening to the rectum and is known as the anal sphincter. Learn your anatomy.

Your head is so far up Microsoft's @ss, you're practically Bill Gate's colonoscope.

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Silogon - 509 days 3 hours ago

You seem to know your way around the human ass... you should be proud of yourself and your boyfriend should too. I bet you two make a lovely couple.

Still doesn't change the fact Sony are a bunch of idiots and you're the runner up.

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Common Sense - 509 days 3 hours ago

You are truly an immature idiot. Knowing the human anatomy is not a negative thing when you're studying to be a physician, you idiot. You're an idiot if you don't know the basic composition of the alimentary canal. Your digestive system starts with your mouth, esophagus, stomach, pyloric sphincter, duodenum, jejunum, ileum, cecum, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, rectum and anus. This is all basic knowledge. Insinuating someone is an homosexual simply because they know human anatomy, shows your level of cognition.

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juuken - 509 days 3 hours ago

Man Silogon, just shut the hell up.
Sometimes you make sense, and other times you're talking sh*t.
Just drink a huge cup of SHUT THE F*CK UP and spare us the pain of your idiotic statements that hold no damn water.

Wow Silogon, you have the 360 fangirls to cheer you on now? I would love to hear them supporting you when you switch sides *yet* again and sing the praises of the PS3! :D

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doshey - 509 days 3 hours ago

dude this guy have major fanboy swings and has a bad case of diarrhea of the mouth

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GMR_PR - 509 days 3 hours ago

"You seem to know your way around the human ass... you should be proud of yourself and your boyfriend should too. I bet you two make a lovely couple."

LMAO!!!!!! some body got own... hahahahahahahahahahahaaha.

@ Below

I really dont give a f@ck about numbers. I play games not numbers.

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XxZxX - 509 days 2 hours ago

you call that owning??? man poor xbots has low standard. well should expected that, since selling 500+ more per weeks is very high to them. They will take anything.

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doshey - 509 days 3 hours ago

lets see how well they do in japan when ff 13 come out in japan

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GiantEnemyCrab - 509 days 3 hours ago

Actually they have another big RPG coming in the next couple weeks with Infinite Undiscovery. So the trend may continue but even the most die-hard 360 fanboys can agree it will eventually go back to where it has been most of the 360's life.

Does it bother you that much that the 360 owners are pleased about something in Japan?

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doshey - 509 days 3 hours ago

nope not for me i just hate it when 360 fanboy take it so far as saying that they will take japan ps3 is screwed in japan

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GMR_PR - 509 days 2 hours ago

@ 4.3
"nope not for me i just hate it when 360 fanboy take it so far as saying that they will take japan ps3 is screwed in japan"

My friend you need to go out a little more, you're taking this sh@t too seriously.

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doshey - 509 days 1 hour ago

i do get out so dont even tryin saying sh!t about my life when u dont even know me

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XxZxX - 509 days 2 hours ago

lol yup xbox360 will take japan's ass hole just as you say. I don't know PS3 and Wii want japan's ass hole. Thanks for coming out the closet.

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N00BZSUCKASS - 509 days 1 hour ago

hAhahaHAHHAhahAHAHaha owned. oh wait. no.

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N00BZSUCKASS - 509 days 1 hour ago

u mean like MGS?

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XxZxX - 508 days 23 hours ago

sure, if you cant count, 1 mil vs 100k = the same. LOL

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