GoW explodes into Japanese top ten chart

Posted Jan 25, 2007 at 10:04PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Japan, Media Create, PS2
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If certain Japanese games can be cult hits here, why not the flip-side? Just look at Gears of War. Why wouldn't this very western-looking game with deceptively good gameplay (Not counting the gameplay, Gears is a game that, on the surface, looks like any other western shooter) not be a cult hit in Japan?

A shooter in the Japan top ten? Wha?!We've speculated on that train of thought before, right after news that the game sold out at some Japanese retailers. However, now that Gears of War has penetrated the top 20, it's starting to look like its more of the actual situation than a just a mere speculation. Here's Media Create's recent chart:
  1. .hack//G.U. Vol. 3 (PS2)
  2. Wario: The Seven (DS)
  3. Shining Force EXA (PS2)
  4. Wii Sports (Wii)
  5. Wii Play (Wii)
  6. Dragon Shadow Spell (PS2)
  7. Gears of War (360)
  8. Seikaiju Maze (DS)
  9. Common Knowledge Training (DS)
  10. More Brain Age (DS)
Of course, given this list, we have absolutely no idea why .hack is at the top. Perhaps the gameplay that .hack offers satisfies a certain kind of gamer (like some of us at QJ), and it just so happens that those types of gamers are more numerous in Japan. After all, they're the guys who thought up Incredible Crisis and Cooking Mama.

If you want more details on the whole chart, feel free to use our read link below; it leads to a translation of the actual Media Create chart.

 
 
 

Comments

by - 2007-01-26 01:13:24
Ummmm

Why is Wii Sports included in there? It comes with the system for crying out loud. Anyway, GJ GoW
by - 2007-01-26 02:52:01
Puts a damper on the PS3 posters who come up on here.

Yes now the 360 is selling well there M$ have got some big titles lined up for Japan this year and with the bigger hard drives coming soon it is going to get stronger and stronger.
by - 2007-01-26 04:02:58
re

maybe because it doesn't come with the system in japan, you dingis
by - 2007-01-26 05:32:34
yerrr

not really it had 1 little burst of sales because of blue dragon a tiny burst of sales for GEOW ima 360 owner myself but microsoft really just doesnt give a ***** about japan thats the only reason i say sony will win this war they make american games european games and japanese games ewill MS only gets erope and america
by - 2007-01-26 09:56:04
none of you

can acurately predict the console war its like telling us rapture will happen tomorrow so STFU and GTFO my internets

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