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Posted: Mar 19th 2009 3:50PM Douche McBaggins said

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I wonder what Square Enix thinks about this. Same with Namco. Tales of series and Star Ocean series are more popular then Yakuza, yet their sales are far below the mark thanks to the 360. Maybe this is their wakeup call?

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 4:16PM (Unverified) said

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Where are killzone 2 sales?

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 4:49PM Douche McBaggins said

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Killzone 2 hasn't been released in Japan yet. I think it comes out next month.
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Posted: Mar 19th 2009 4:35PM s ls said

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damn! 500,000 copies for a game in one region!? good job sega and sony.

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 4:53PM (Unverified) said

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Don't forget on one platform that's not the DS or Wii :p
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Posted: Mar 19th 2009 5:27PM (Unverified) said

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I've decided to learn japanese, because they seem to have cooler stuff than us. I want to play this game!

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 5:58PM (Unverified) said

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I wonder if this will have any influence on whether we see an English version. Even if it's just a US release, I'll happily import.

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 6:09PM (Unverified) said

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Uh, Joystiq, it hasn't sold 500,000 in Japan. Sega wouldn't know how many copies have been sold, they are reporting that they've shipped 500,000 copies of Yakuza 3 to retailers. Media Create and Famitsu report actual sales numbers. (they have it around ~430k I believe which leaves ~60-70k on shelves)

Posted: Mar 19th 2009 9:49PM phoenixkissme said

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When this game come to US it already an old game, same as when Yakuza 2 just come out last year whereas the Japanese one already release two years ago.

Local Japanese would like the game, but the English people would also like the game. So why don't they bring the game on both market? Sega is so stupid not bring out the US game at the same time...

Posted: Mar 20th 2009 12:25AM michael000 said

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According to Media Create it's at 449k sold (372k wk 1, 53k wk, 24k wk 3) at the moment. Depending on how they're handling sales of the system bundle they could in fact be over 500k already.

Smart Sega, and especially Sony, you've got what is (or eventually will be) a 500k selling EXCLUSIVE and you're going to leave it only in Japan.

Posted: Mar 20th 2009 12:27AM michael000 said

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Eh that was supposed to be in response to wdomin2, man an edit feature would be nice.
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Posted: Mar 20th 2009 2:51AM (Unverified) said

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I guess is the third PS3 tittle to reach Half million in Japan... according to VGChartz GranTurismo 5: Prologue has sold 660k and Metal Gear 672k...

And RE5 or Bio Hazard 5 will be the fourth to reach 500k for PS3 in Japan: almost 400k in 2 weeks in Japan.


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