After almost 5,000 years of civilized culture (preceded by 25,000 years of hunter-gatherer triflings), the island of Nihon-koku -- 'Japan' to you lazy round-eyes -- may soon sink into the ocean or be horribly destroyed by some kind of hellish firestorm.
Recent Japanese sales records are out and in accordance with ancient harbingers of doom prophecy, Halo 3 has topped a Pokémon title for the highest selling game in all of Japan.
To quote a completely fictional prophetic haiku:
When Microsoft tops
Nintendo's tiny creatures,
Nippon shall perish.
Considering the entire thing was written in the blood of a sparrow, you sorta have to believe it, y'know?
Hit the jump for the week's sales data (written in the blood of Mark from Accounting).
[Via Game|Life]
[UPDATE: Haiku made even less historically accurate to appease you pedantic bastards.]
Courtesy of NeoGAF:
01./--. [360] Halo 3 - 59,000 / NEW
02./03. [DS] Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Toki - 55,000 / 440,000
03./01. [PSP] Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII - 54,000 / 649,000
04./--. [DS] Tamagotchi Petit Petit Omisecchi Minasankyu! - 54,000 / NEW
05./04. [DS] Pokemon Fushigi no Dungeon: Yami - 46,000 / 389,000
06./--. [PS2] Bleach Blade Battlers 2nd - 31,000 / NEW
07./--. [DS] English Test 2 - 28,000 / NEW
08./--. [PSP] Yugioh Duel Monsters GX - 28,000 / NEW
09./--. [PS3] Oblivion - 27,000 / NEW
10./02. [PSP] Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops+ - 25,000 / 119,000
Contest:
1:58 AM on 10.04.2007
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Whose played with a japanese 12 year old?
lemmie know!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
And isn't the word "our" technically 2 syllables, therefore making that haiku invalid? Sorry, just nitpicking.
you don't usually rank 1st having 50000 games sold
halo 3 wins technically but that doesn't imply western game is evading japan, and the japanese are still doing facial expressions to their ds cam.
(also pic caption ruled)
thats impossible!
Made in the U.S.A.!!!
For some reason I read that picture as "the worst episode of Puppet babies", what the hell?
thumbs down to all fps
"hmmmm.. if the japanese start supporting the FPS, i'd love to see some of the japanese developers take on the genre."
They did... It was called Dirge of Cerberus... We all wept silently.
But I have to add that it's not that big a deal. I mean, it's Halo's opening week. Any pokemon game would rape it if they were on a level playing field.
Further, I'm pretty sure tha Japanese "empire" was done with in the 40s. Oh wait, are you talking about the gaming empire? =P
this is scary stuff indeed. i'm sure microsoft will get a big head about themselves and drop the ball.
now, make it a japanese maid shooter and you got yourself a hot seller XD
either way, it was a jap. shooter that didn't suck. the only jap made FPS i can think of is coded arms, and it DID suck.
And yes, Japan does make shooters, they just happen to be in third person. Japan doesn't do first person, something I applaud, as I think Halo would have been a better game if Bungie had stuck with the third person view. Bioshock, on the other hand, definitely better in first person.