Vesperia Conquers Japan

via IGN


Tales of Vesperia wasn't the biggest game in Japan last week. But it's debut at over 100,000 units was certainly good news for the Xbox 360.

As reported by Media Create, the number one game for the week covering August 4 to August 10 was Phantasy Star Portable. Now in its second week, Sega's PSP hit sold an additional 148,000 units for 490,000 units total.

The DS remake of the original NES Fire Emblem game debuted at number two with 145,000 units. Below it was another Nintendo-branded DS hit, Rhythm Tengoku Gold (to be released outside Japan as Rhythm Heaven), which sold 130,000 units in its second week for a total of 343,000.

Tales of Vesperia came in at fourth with 108,000 units. This figure includes both standalone versions of the game and a bundle that combined the title with the 360 hardware and some limited edition goodies.

Below Tales was Dragon Quest V (Square Enix, DS, 73,000 units), Sangokushi Taisen Ten (Sega, DS, 33,000), Summon Night 2 (Bandai Namco, DS, 30,000), Wii Fit (Nintendo, Wii, 27,000), Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii, 23,000), and Soul Calibur IV (Bandai Namco, PS3, 23,000). Of these, Sangokushi and Summon Night were new. DQV, notably, topped a million over the period.

Media Create's hardware charts won't be released until Friday, but a few unofficial reports indicate a big boost to 360 hardware sales, even pushing the system above the PlayStation 3, although not above the Wii.

108,000 units is really a good first week for an Xbox 360 game on Japan. Congratulations Microsoft, I hope it means more and more releases there.

It beat the next highest, Blue Dragon, by about 30,000 units. Extremely impressive; really awesome to see Tales of Vesperia getting lots of love. I just hope it does well in NA too; Tales games are amazing.