Dissidia continues relentless sales assault on Japan

by Andrew Yoon { Feb 3rd 2009 at 12:20AM }

A Final Fantasy game doing well? Who would've thunk it?! Square Enix's PSP-only Final Fantasy brawler has continued its dominance over the Japanese game charts in January, with over 186k units sold in January. This bumps the total number of copies sold to 846k. It's clear that it will only take a few more months for the game to cross the million threshold.

The rest of the top 10 charts are dominated mostly by Nintendo games, with the odd exception of Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (yes, they're still buying that game), and White Knight Chronicles for PS3. See the full list at IGN.

Tags: dissidia, final-fantasy, Japan, sales

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Daisuke @ Feb 3rd 2009 1:30AM

They mispelled "Final"......

Kinsey @ Feb 3rd 2009 1:42AM

I wanna play this New Fial Fantasy game! Sounds intriguing. :P

Robert @ Feb 3rd 2009 2:45AM

I love that Monster Hunter Portable is still in the top ten of sales! lol

JrgPar9 @ Feb 3rd 2009 3:22AM

I played this game and it KICKS ASS!!... even though I can't understand Jap it is easy to understand what going on for the most part..

gmoya90 @ Feb 3rd 2009 3:34AM

lol Fial Fantasy this game has been the shit i havent gotten bored since i got it 2 days after came out in japan and is addicting am like already tired of this game got the best armor well mostly all the best armor and just owning ad hoc party but one thing to say mostly everyone around tha world got it couldent wait for there release in there country lol

but no matter what tha best bralwer for a portble and who cares is final fantasy and am still look forward to US release just to hear there voices and on tha story mode even tho i follow up on youtube with translation on story mode.

i hear MH2ndG is good never play any of the MH since

Elven_Star @ Feb 3rd 2009 4:54AM

I can't believe people buy a crappy game like Monster Hunter Freedom. That game sucks some really serious ass....

As for Dissidia, Square Enix + Final Fantasy = gg

McManus @ Feb 3rd 2009 6:05AM

im just amazed everyone in japan hasnt already bought 3 copies of Monster Hunter Portable

waterblue_ism @ Feb 3rd 2009 6:14AM

is it me, or is this writer stupid??? thunk it??? don't you mean thought it?? thunk is not even a word and does not exist.

rikki @ Feb 3rd 2009 7:59AM

It's a phrase sometimes used in American English for comedic effect.

Though he did spell "who'da" wrong.

rikki @ Feb 3rd 2009 8:02AM

Every time I see that picture, I think やらないか.

allen @ Feb 3rd 2009 1:03PM

OMG you too? If only Tidus had that face....

Evan @ Feb 3rd 2009 9:14AM

American gamers may think Final Fantasy is "fail", but I expect just as large a portion of Japanese gamers think American style shooters like Halo and Resistance are "fail". Sony didn't even bother releasing Killzone: Libreration in Japan, and if they did, it probably wouldn't even make the top 50 chart. Not one American style shooter appears in the PS2's top 50!

LegendaryRedass @ Feb 3rd 2009 10:35AM

American gamers may think Final Fantasy is "fail"? I know this is a flame, but I cannot resist. You have no idea what you are talking about. By the way, how many shooters were even developed for the ps2? Very few. And only 3 decent ones. Killzone, Black and a port of Half Life. Everyone knows that most Japanese people get motion sickness from shooters, thats why a lot of them don't play them. Also, there are way more Final Fantasy fans in the US than shooter fans in Japan. That's common knowledge.