The PS3 version of the title has sold 524,000 units according to
Andriasang's translation of Media Create's extremely Japanese sales data, making it the number 1 selling title for the period. This is in stark contrast to the 360 version of the game, which entered the charts at number 48 with a comparatively minuscule 10,000 units sold.
Having the number 1 game in Japan is definitely nothing to be ashamed of, but the accomplishment seems somewhat less impressive when compared to
Final Fantasy XIII's combined first-week sales of 1,502,000 copies, nearly three times
XIII-2's combined 525,000. Media Create attributes the drop in sales to a drop in interest among Japanese female gamers: 22.2 percent of women surveyed were interested in
XIII-2, down nearly ten points from
XIII's 31.3 percent Japanese female interest rate.
It's also possible that the interest decline among Japanese women was negligible at best, considering that the game was
the best selling gaming in the country.