Sega's PlayStation 3 game
Yakuza 4 (
Ryū ga Gotoku 4: Densetsu wo Tsugumono in Japan) debuted in Japan during the week ended March 21, topping charts with 384,000 units sold, tracking firm
Media Create said Thursday.
The game, whose story revolves around Japanese organized crime, reached the sales figure following its release on March 18.
The original
Yakuza released in Japan in 2005 for PlayStation 2, followed by
Yakuza 2 the next year. The third and fourth iterations were exclusively developed for PlayStation 3.
While
Yakuza 4 debuted last week in Japan, Western audiences just saw the launch of
Yakuza 3 this month.
In a distant second, but with strong debut sales nonetheless, was Namco Bandai's PlayStation Portable game
Gundam: Assault Survive, which moved 91,000 units in its opening week at Japanese retail.
Games dropping off of Media Create's weekly top 10 list
from last week were Nippon Ichi Software's PSP game
Zettai Hero: Modification Plan, the PlayStation 3 version of Electronic Arts'
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Enterbrain's
RPG Maker DS.
Below is Media Create's top 10 unit sales chart for Japan for the week ended March 21.
| LW | TW | Title | Platform | Publisher | Weekly Sales |
| NEW | 1 | Yakuza 4 | PS3 | Sega | 384,000 |
| NEW | 2 | Gundam: Assault Survive | PSP | Namco Bandai | 91,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Pokemon Ranger: Tracks of Light | DS | Pokemon Co. | 50,000 |
| 3 | 4 | New Super Mario Bros. Wii | Wii | Nintendo | 37,000 |
| 2 | 5 | Tomodachi Collection | DS | Nintendo | 35,000 |
| 5 | 6 | Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce 2 | PSP | Koei | 20,000 |
| 10 | 7 | Wii Fit Plus | Wii | Nintendo | 19,000 |
| 4 | 8 | Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! 3D | PSP | Sony | 18,000 |
| 9 | 9 | Dragon Quest IX (Ultimate Hits) | DS | Square Enix | 15,000 |
| 11 | 10 | God Eater | PSP | Namco Bandai | 15,000 |
