Wii Party was the best-selling catalog title of the week, finishing fifth overall and adding another 36,547 copies to its sales total. There was one other new release on the charts, Nippon Ichi Software's latest strategy role-playing game Blue Roses. While Front Mission Evolved couldn't hold a candle to the Pokemon launches, the game's 51,084-selling debut was enough to stave off two other big new releases, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Tag Force 5 for the PSP (third place with 45,879 sold) and Halo: Reach (fourth place with 44,413 sold). Development duties for Front Mission Evolved were entrusted to California-based Double Helix, which previously offered a Western spin on an Eastern franchise with 2008's Silent Hill: Homecoming.
The game marks a drastic departure for the series, as it featured 3D shooter mechanics rather than the turn-based tactics for which the Front Mission series had been known. Pokemon Black and White cast a large shadow over the Japanese sales charts.Ĭhief among those was Square Enix's Front Mission Evolved, which placed second on the chart in its week of release. So while the pair's combined sales of nearly 2.6 million was certain to land it atop Media Create's Japanese sales charts for the week of September 13-19, the remainder of the top 10 held some interesting results. Earlier this week, Enterbrain already confirmed what many would have assumed: The Japanese DS debut for Pokemon Black and White was hugely successful.