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10:42 AM on 12.09.2008 | Jim Sterling

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Famitsu magazine has unveiled the PlayStation 3's best selling games of all time, and it looks incredibly varied ... if you consider two out of five games being Dynasty Warriors varied.

Koei's DW series has always been a hot commodity in Japan, but the list does look rather dismal, to say the least. Here's the top five, including lifetime sales as of November 16:

1. Metal Gear Solid 4 - 671,706
2. Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds - 408,175
3. Dynasty Warriors 6 - 371,443
4. Dynasty Warriors: Gundam - 317,580
5. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 - 316,533

That's ... quite a list. I'd congratulate Metal Gear Solid 4 for topping the list, but looking at the competition, it'd be like congratulating Stephen Hawking for beating a retard at Scrabble.

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26 comments | showing # 1 to 26

covah

...on a side note, I still need to pick up Hot Shots, how the hell has that not gone down in price yet?

elsteveo

Well umm grats to MGS on beating hot shots bby 200k. I can't see why they would not want to bring it to 360 that would be a bonehead move geez

whormongr

also on a side note- Stephen Hawking wouldn't be able to put the pieces on the board or rearrange his letters so I would have to say... the retard may have an advantage

Jonathan Holmes

I feel sad for the PS3.

The White Light

I will never understand Japan's rabid obsession with the Dynasty Warriors series.

comtruise

Not even one game broke the million mark. Take that for whatever you will...

DemonEyes23

oh japan you crazy nuts. Theres plenty of games out there for the ps3 i guess the will like Japanese what the Japanese will like. I'm not sure how valkyria chronicles isn't on that list they should be going ape shit over an actually RPG to play (a good one at that) the way americans do for every goddamn thing that invovles zombies.

DemonEyes23

DinnertimeNinja

I'd like to point out (because it only says it in the title and not the article) that this list is JAPAN ONLY!

MGS4 has supposedly sold over 3.5 million worldwide as of like two months ago. It's set to pass MGS3's sales (~4 milion) shortly, so that's no really bad at all.

The list is still sad, though. PS3 just needs more RPGs for Japan to jump on the Sony wagon. What happened between the PS2 generation (the most RPGs available on one system ever) and this generation?

Step it up, Sony!

PappaDukes

mmmm....I love me some Hot shots. But what the hell is up with a SOCCER game in the top 5!? That's fucking crazy. Soccer games BLOW.

parrothead

I like FIFA 09. I haven't played Pro Evolution.

Sam Spectre

This is disappointing.

DanlHaas

Lack of Final Fantasy. That's the only explanation.

I hate the Japanese market sometimes.

Holyetheline

What a shame.

elsteveo

I hate the Japanese market all the time. They buy the weirdest shit and i will never understand them. I like to look at there women though. Some asian women is sexy stuff

AgentMOO

USA > Japan

oh shit I said it

mix

@covah

I KNOW!
I picked up HSG last month as my GF and I wanted to play some golf as Wii golf is utter shit and when I saw that price still at $59.99 I threw up all a little in my mouth.

Fun game though.

brainderailment

@elsteveo, you know this is a Japan list right? Taking one game that sells on a poor selling system and putting it on another poor selling system isn't going to do much in Japan. Outside of Japan, your comment applies.

elsteveo

@brainderailment

No i thought this was a list for Hungry. Figure you sell another 500k then that is 1 million copies sold in japan!

Muddy Waterz

Dynasty warriors really?

sinny

Stop thinking that Japan is the united states
The have different tastes, it's pretty stupid to say this list is sad , let's see :
MGS3 sold the same amount in the same time on PS2 wich had a bigger install base .
The other games on the list aren't surpises, all those belong to sagas that the Japanese people love.
Remember that GTA 4 and lots of best selling games in US were released there.( wich didn't sell well there, and in the logic of this article ... are retarded games then )
So the only thing i see here is Americans making fun of Japanese taste in viedogames.

eksMAN

n here r japan's top five 360 bestsellers of all time

Blue Dragon - 203.740
Tales of Vesperia - 155.477
Infinite Undiscovery - 109.630
Dead or Alive 4 - 108.618
Lost Odissey - 108.269

via http://www.japan-gamecharts.com/360.php

Wedge

So yes, console market dead in Japan confirmed. Suck it up and get used to everything being on DS. They're the only people that can make games for the system anyways.

Public Loser

Yay for Hot Shots! I've been behind that game for so long and all my friends call me retarded! Now who's retarded!?

Side note... Valkyria Chronicles should totally be on that list. Why do people refuse to buy it!? :(

SalParadise

Wow, I'm surprised Ryu ga Gotoku: Kenzan isn't on that list, considering the lack of competition. Indeed, that's the Yakuza game (in between 2 and the soon to be released 3, which looks incredibly btw) which features child prostitution. The fighting system still needs improvement, but I found the game to be very well make and produced and even featured Takenaka Naoto, who you might know from Shall We Dance and Waterboys among others, not only as a voice actor but as an actual character (playing a samurai of course). With all the hype and talent they get for that series, you'd think it would be able to beat out at least one of those Musou games. Oh well, guess they are all too busy playin Wii's.

TrailerParkJesus

They like soccer over there? Had no idea

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