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First-Day Sales In Japan (7/31) - Soul Calibur IV, Fatal Frame IV, Phantasy Star Portable

Gothic Girl | August 02, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 Wii

The first-day sales for the most recently-released games in Japan are in, and you may be surprised with the results...

The PSP Action-RPG Phantasy Star Portable and the DS's Rhythm Heaven Gold had the highest first-day sales, selling well over 150k copies respectively.

Soul Calibur IV sold 56k on the PS3 and 35k on the 360.

Surprisingly, Fatal Frame IV sold 21k with a 60% sell-through on just the first day. Retailers were cautious as to whether the survival-horror would do well with such little advertising and the abrupt console shift. But it's sales are already looking stronger than any Fatal Frame game to date.

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BANDITO ATTACK | August 03, 2008

who would have guessed the japanese would eat up phantasy star?

i'm surprised a 360 game even made it on the list. im not surprised that the game happened to be soul caliber tho.
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Final Blade | August 03, 2008

_{Wow sales for SC4 wasn't nearly as good as I thought it might be.}
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Silver Mirror | August 03, 2008

How did I know Gothic Girl would be the submitter of this article?

Suprised Soul Calibur 4 sold as much as it did on 360 over there
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  Subzer0 | August 03, 2008
  
  SCIV on PS3 outsold the 360 version. But yeah, I'm also surprised. But then again, I also decided to play it on PS3 instead. Maybe its because the PS3 controllers are better for fighting games.
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    Akira_EX | August 03, 2008
    
    It's not the fact that the PS3 version outsold the 360 version, it's the fact that the 360 had a really high sell-through.
    
    Also, if I'm not mistaken, Fatal Frame IV is doing better than Fatal Frame 1, is on par with 2/3.
    
    But GO RHYTHM TENGOKU GOLD!