Dark Souls Surpasses 250K Japanese Sales In Opening Weekend

From Software's tough-as-nails RPG Dark Souls dominated the Japanese weekly software sales chart last week, in a week that saw over half of the top 20 taken by new releases. For the week ended September 25, data from tracking firm Media Create, and as reported by NeoGAF, shows that Dark Souls sold a total of 279,567 units in its opening weekend. Sony's ICO / Shadow of the Colossus Limited Box had to settle for second place, with 91,902 units sold in total. Down the bottom of the chart, the PS3 release of ICO on its own entered at number 20, and Shadow of the Colossus on its own jumped in at number 14. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Tag Force 6 entered the charts at number three, while Microsoft's Xbox 360 behemoth Gears of War 3 followed closely behind at number four. The previous week's number one, Dragon Quest 25th Anniversary, dropped down to number five, but still managed an impressive 54,775 sales for the week. Positions six to ten saw four more new releases -- Senran Kagura: Shoujotachi no Shinei, Busou Shinki: Battle Masters Mk. 2, To Heart 2 DX Plus and Champion Jockey: Gallop Racer & G1 Jockey -- while Tales of Xillia dropped from position two to sit comfortably at number nine. Other new releases included Monster Hunter Freedom 3 at 12 and Shadows of the Damned at number 18. The complete top 20 chart, as supplied by Media Create, is shown below.