It may not have broken any records here but Call of Duty: Black Ops is the number one selling game in Japan according to the weekly Media Create sales figures (via 4Gamer.net). Nearly 170,000 copies of the multi-platform shooter were purchased, with the bulk of those being the PlayStation 3 version. Ranked separately, the PS3 version was first overall while the 360 version was in seventh place. In second place was a sequel to Nintendo’s Fossil Fighters, a game where players dig up ancient remains and revive the creatures to do battle, Pokemon-style. It outsold its predecessor, released in 2008 in Japan, by 7,000 copies.
Call of Duty would prove to be the only Xbox 360 game in the top 20 despite November 20th being the Japanese launch day for Kinect. No specific sales data for the accessory has been made public, but it would appear that none of the new Kinect games managed to sell more than 8,000 copies. According to Gpara, Konami’s DanceMasters is the highest one on the chart in 24th place.
