In the world of console gaming, Japan tends to strongly support their hometown champions -- although whether or not the sprawling multinational corporate behemoths of Nintendo and Sony actually need that suppport is debatable. Microsoft's Xbox 360 has generally faced slow sales in the nation and a lack of popular games on the platform. But it's gotten a boost from the strong sales of
Monster Hunter Frontier Online, an MMO exclusive to the platform that's
made it to the top of the Japanese sale charts. Not out of all Xbox games -- out of the entire country.
The newest installment of the long-running series is a port of a 2007 PC version, beating out several other strong contenders for the countrywide sales figures. Although the
Monster Hunter series has been popular in Japan, there's no word on the MMO being released outside of the country. Still, it seems a good sign that
you can sell good numbers for a ported game on an unpopular console -- something
Square-Enix may well want to consider for the future.
