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Latest Japanese software sales sees White Knight slip to 6th

In this, the last chart of the Japanese calender year sees last week's winning débutante White Knight Chronicles slip to sixth with sales down 65% from 206,954, to just 71,000.

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thereapersson5599d ago

The game will continue to sell. The initial rush for the game has passed, and now it will enjoy a steady stream of sales over the next few months. But it makes me wonder, as the week isn't over yet, what it will accomplish in the next week or so. Will it see another rise in sales, or will it stay relatively around this mark?

Only time will tell. One can't ignore the fact that it sold 200k its first week, though, which is impressive for an RPG.

Danja5598d ago

Level 5 and and Sony should be really happy with these figures considering that the game had lil hype coming up to release days and so far this will be the best selling next gen RPG....

Cwalat5598d ago

...and pretty impressive considering this is only in Japan.

As said erlier, the rush has ended. Like all games.. the first week is probably the most sales it will get. Later weeks is decrease, but still continues selling.

PPL in Japan has taste when it comes to RPG games,
no wonder this is the fastest selling RPG in Japan.

mint royale5598d ago

with wii, DS and psp games circling the charts its hard for any ps3 or 360 games to stay in the charts never mind at the top of them.

RememberThe3575598d ago

WKC was highly anticipated in Japan.

Sony needs to push this game.

And the Japanese need to say screw famitsu.

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Darkseider5598d ago

Considering that total sales so far is 275k. By the end of the month it should hit about 350k which is a nice solid number.

Da One5598d ago

Level don't Fail me now.....................

TOO PAWNED5598d ago (Edited 5598d ago )

Best selling LEVEL 5 JRPG on PS2 was Rogue Galaxy, which sold "only" 350k(IN JAPAN). WKC is selling faster on less than 3 million install base, while RG had 20 million install base.
Also WKC has BEST second week of any other PS3 game in Japan so far, yes that includes MGS4 etc. So i don't know why is someone trying to spin this into something bad. "O look slip to 6th place!!!" DUH!!! What did you expect? fact that it debue on 1 place last week is milestone! PS3 game, new IP?
Haters just stop, grow up, get over yourself, really stop.

Baka-akaB5598d ago

Lol why the title for the article? i mean do we see any article about every big titles and exclusives slipping after their first week like they usually or even always do ?

Paranoid much i agree , but it's kinda funny ...

silvacrest5598d ago

After all the PS3 hate articles this was to be expected

PS360WII5598d ago

the title is that way because they know people are interested in WKC. Nothing more but some may try and read into what isn't there.

Another reason for the drop could be because they sold out didn't they? Might be hard to restock that fast.

eagle215598d ago

With Blu-ray closing in on DVD in JP, a PS3 price cut means goodbye to 360. And that's the truth.

WKC will reach over 500k. :)

mint royale5598d ago

its quite sad. For MS the 360 has already passed the original xbox so I think they are happy with what they have already achieved.

Do you expect the ps3 to get the ps2's usebase in Japan?

Launches aligned the ps2 was at 9 million already with the ps3 at 2.5 million. Thats quite a big loss generation to generation.

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Contra265598d ago

lol...
such a mediocre game...

Just go there and read the reviews in the board.
this game fails

Queers of War5598d ago

and it got 8.3 at gamefaqs, moron

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RETRO Review - White Knight Chronicles (PS3)

Grab your longsword, shield and round up the fantasy archetypes - there are Ice Dragons afoot!

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Memorable Music in Gaming #21

Chalgyr's Game Room writes:

I am kicking things off by going back to a familiar well here - with a song from the Neverwinter Nights soundtrack. This is still arguably one of my favorite music scores in a video game ever, but I decided to lead off with it and then create something of a theme as I decided to pull all of this edition's songs from RPG games.

Neverwinter Nights (PC) - Battle - Forest Boss

I touched on the somewhat mystical quality of another Neverwinter Nights song last week when discussing City Docks Day. There were a lot of really good battle tunes in this one, but the Forest Boss song always stood out in my mind. The battle itself was not even the most memorable one, but right around the one minute mark, it reaches an epic level that just stuck with me.

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The ten last-gen games that should have "HD Remasters"

Digitally Downloaded writes: "Below are the ten games we'd like to see make their way to the new generation of consoles this year. Or, perhaps, game collections that could be pulled together into a single disc package for even better value as we have seen other recent HD/ Remaster releases."

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Snookies123400d ago

B-But FFXII isn't last-gen. I'd love to see it remastered regardless though. Brilliantly fun game, I just disliked the story unfortunately.

hkgamer3400d ago (Edited 3400d ago )

story was ok, but very unlike the other ff storylines where there is a clear villian.

i just want the game for vita/ps4. international zodiac version would be interesting to play but i hope that the original glitches(?) are still there.

i had more fun breaking the game then playing the game properly.

would also be cool if they added dual wielding. would make some rare weapons actually useful.

MrSwankSinatra3400d ago

I really would like to see a HD Remaster of both Twilight Princess & Skyward Sword. Those games deserve to be in HD

Relientk773400d ago

Are you saying that they could make Ni no Kuni look even better, because I would like to see that.

hkgamer3400d ago

they could easily make that game look better. just make it as detailed as the animation. the 3d models had a lot less detail.

not saying it didnt look nice, just saying it could be improved a lot.

DougLord3400d ago

NONE - lets keep remakes to games from 2-3 gens ago!

PeaSFor3400d ago

what i want to see:

Patapon HD Collection
FFIX & FFVII Remastered
MadWorld HD
Thrasher:Skate&Destroy HD
EA Skate series HD
Lumines Collection
VibRibbon remastered
Mario Galaxy 1&2 Remastered
BF1942 Remastered

WheatBread3400d ago

Screw that we need new games

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