Dragon Quest III Tops Sales Chart & Undertale Still Strong!
Sep. 2, 2017Dragon Quest III Tops Sales Chart & Undertale Still Strong!
Sony Interactive Entertainment released its weekly sales chart of PS4 games on the Japanese PlayStation Store. The re-release ofDragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvationis now on the top spot during its debut week.
You can check out the complete chart below for the period betweenAugust 21standAugust 27th:
While it was only until recently that the indie RPGUndertaleheld the top spotby displacingDragon Quest XIdown to fourth place, it is still latching on quite close from second place.
Dragon Queststill holdsfour of the top five places which demonstrates the adoration of the franchise in Japan.
For a niche oriented Nippon Ichi title,Yomawari: Midnight Shadowsmakes a strong debut in the top 10.Megadimension Neptunia VIIR’placing in 12th place, hints at the fact of the scarcity ofPlayStation VRheadset on the shelves in Japan.
On the Japanese magazine Weekly Famitsu digital sales,Dragon Quest XIsold113,182 copieson PS4 in its first two days on the shelves (from July 29th to July 30th), while only62,939 copieswere sold digitally on the 3DS.
In combination with Famitsu’s numbers, this brings the debut of the two versions in Japan almost equal with each other, with the 3DS version selling a combined digital and retail sales at1,193,407 copieswhile the PS4 version at1,063,520 copies.
This explains the strong initial sales reported by Square Enix for the PS4 when you also factor in the PS4 launch being only in Asian in the meantime.
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