Bandai Namco released Tales of Zestiria in Japan last week, and the game sold 340,891 copies in its first week on store shelves. Japanese sales tracker Media Create reports that Zestiria managed to sell through 89.52% of its initial shipment in its first week.
In comparison, 2011’s Tales of Xillia sold 525,605 copies in its first week, selling through 87.12% of its shipment. Meanwhile, Tales of Xillia 2, released in 2012, sold 364,439 copies in its first week, and sold through 78.09% of its shipment.
Media Create says that Tales of Zestiria released during the university entrance exam season in Japan, and so there are likely those that refrained from purchasing it in its first week. (Meaning that some of these people could buy in its second and third weeks, giving it stronger legs.)
This coupled with the fact that Zestiria has a higher sell-through percentage than both Xillia and Xillia 2 could mean that the game will end doing up as well as the latter title (over 450,000 copies), the tracking company says.
[Note: Media Create presumably do not expect Zestiria to sell as much as the original Xillia due to that game having been given a larger push as a 15th anniversary title, and having released earlier on in the PS3’s lifecycle.]
It should be interesting to see Tales of Zestiria performs in the weeks ahead.
