Project X Zone Battles Into UK Top 20 in Debut Week

18 is actually not that bad for Project X Zone I think, and I think a game like X Zone maybe did better digitally.....

I would not expect a game like this to sell well. But that may also be to low shipments of this. But yeah it is a niche game that only some gamers like me would like. It is something kind of cool though having all these characters even from games I never heard of coming together.

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I think that's an amazing position for Project X Zone.

I would not have expected this game to show up in any chart.

I wouldn't call that disappointing. Sure, it may not have charted as high as other 3DS titles this year, but that's very respectable for a type of game that never usually makes it outside of Japan.

There NL look at what the West thinks about Japanese games, keep ignoring the thruth NL, you keep doing that.

A niche Japanese game on a console with a small userbase makes the top 20 and you're disappointed?

For a game that didnt too well in japan (if I remember rightly) thats quite decent

For a game as niche as that, I'd say that's good.

Surprised its done that well. I have this game, I love this game. I want a sequel. Maybe digital only was a better option. Either way, glad I got it.

I'm amazed it got into the all format top 20! I'm honestly suprised it's even in the top 5 3ds chart.

That isn't that bad considering I only saw it in Game and Argos.

This FANTASTIC for a niche strategy Japenese crossover with many characters people never heard of. Not to mention Japanese only voices. And pretty much no advertisement. I consider this an achievement. I love this game and even I didn't think it would chart this high.

Got the game on cartridge as its only £24 shipped from amazon.co.uk - was released Friday and recieved it today. Why download it for £28 on eShop just for it to cost more and eat up a lot blocks?

Until these charts start including Digital they have kind of become useless, especially for the 3DS.

I'm pleasantly surprised I'm not even the only one that got it, actually.

I won't hold my breath, but I hope other Japanese developers and publishers see this, and consider bringing us time travellers, layton vs ace attorney, e.x. trooper and senran kagura...

Actually that is pretty damn good for a title like this...

I don't know about you guys in the UK, but here in the US if it weren't for sites like this or youtube channels I wouldn't have known about this game, I guess what I'm trying to say is that they should not expect good sales if the marketing is not that good.

If you look at the Units sold alone per console, it was actually 11th. It's only 19th because of multiformat sales from other titles such as FIFA.

That's pretty darned impressive.

18 is high for this type of title in the UK. I hope they translate Namco X Capcom, even if it is just eshop.

It's just too bad they could not market it earlier, it was a like a surprise release. There's no doubt it's for a niche audience and the story won't be as good as say, Fire Emblem, but it's obvious that a lot of effort was put into gameplay. For that, I wish it success and also it could support the push for more Japanese games to be localized.

Yeah it's a good position actually. As you said, it does not include digital so I kinda agree that its a bit pointless to judge the sales. I ordered my copy on the weekend and cannot wait. Will become a cult classic.

I don't find that disappointing at all, that's a pretty good position id say.

I love PXZ so much! I got it and have been playing it nonstop (i'm about 19 hours into it so far). I never really got into fire emblem, but the interactive battles make it feel like a mix of the "Tales of" series and a fire emblem that I can actually enjoy. it's so good ^.^

It's a great game, but compared to the other titles making the top 10 this is definitely a more niche title. Still a good one though

No advertisement for Project X Zone some say? I have seen one on the sides of my pages at least a dozen times now. I want this game even though I don't have a 3ds yet; I'll borrow a friends.

@ThomasBW84 I think that there's no market anymore for Japanese games in the West, the whole past generation all West developers spent time destryoing genres and insulting the japanese way of doing things by ever mean possibile.

That affected sales in the long term because people's mind are affected by change and most people come to accept it, sigh, so now what we have on offer on Nintendo platforms and Sony/Microsoft's platforms is a totally different deal.

So now we a lot of people falling in the trap and insulting and doubting Nintendo's policy, witch is unchanged since the 80's, just because they privilege japanese developers and do things differently, have different games and, since the N64, privileged exclusives before multiplatforms.

Now we have people saying that have few but great exclusives is bad because multiplatform is the way, while i still think that buying a console for a game that you can find on another is plain stupid.

I will stick with Nintendo till they do consoles, but i don't think they will ever stop because many japanese developers, in 2012 even Capcom, Namco and Platinum Games joined the boat, depend from the having consoles. Simply because Sony doesn't care to push developers to port their games here, see the PSVita and early days of PS3; Microsoft is simply branded american and you can't appeal the japanese market with FPSs and Car games.

Project What The Hell Is Going On is undeniably awesome. Animal Crossing is consuming my DS time but I'll be playing that next.

Namco Bandai has been alot better at localizing their games the past few years.