Japan Charts: Is Japan crazy about Red Dead? – News

Even as big gaijin dirty and bearded, Red Dead Redemption 2 did not admit defeat in advance by setting foot on this territory, certainly less and less hostile to the opening, that is Japan. Rockstar, which has earned its acclaim in the archipelago for a long time with in particular the very big success of Grand Theft Auto V (885 000 sales on PS3 + 665 000 on PS4) had added a lot of coal in the promotional machine the days before the release of his new game. So much so that the start of Red Dead Redemption 2, without causing an earthquake, still exceeded expectations with more than 136,000 copies sold in a box. This is more than double its predecessor who started at 66,734 PS3 sales and had finished his race without reaching 200,000 sales, reissues included.

While waiting to see how long the US West will make its hole in the Japanese top 10, we can note that unlike the rest of the world, the game of Rockstar (second biggest launch in history after GTA V) must bow here in front of the popularity of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. After a third week still successful, the game Treyarch approaching 380,000 sales and can aim far. The biggest performance of a Call of Duty in Japan remains Black Ops 2 and its 575,000 sales all editions. If Black Ops 4 manages to get closer to 500,000 sales boxed, the dematerialized take care of the rest and could allow him to seize the crown.

To quickly evoke the other releases of the week, Japan can finally get their hands on Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection a few months after the West. Because of this delay, Capcom had to take the time to make changes after the anger of Japanese players when learning that the 12 titles of this compilation were to be proposed in English, voice and text, without even changing the name of a game like Street Fighter Alpha (named Street Fighter Zero in Japan). At the cost of a delay, Capcom finally reviewed its copy and included the Japanese versions of each title. All that to sell in the end a little more than 20,000 copies by combining the PS4 and the Switch, which in the end is not so ridiculous when you know that a Street Fighter V did not even drop the 50 000 the week of its launch.