Japan <3s Killzone 2, sells 20,000 on launch

Japanese gamers seem to be making up for lost time with Killzone 2 as the game’s launch date proved to be successful in the land where FPS games aren’t traditionally welcomed hotly. And we mean very successful.

Japanese gamers seem to be making up for lost time with Killzone 2 as the game’s launch date proved to be successful in the land where FPS games aren’t traditionally welcomed hotly. And we mean very successful.

That’s 20,000 units sold successful, might we add. In fact, demand for the game was so high that some retailers even had to scramble to get some more copies. At the rate things are going, it definitely won’t come as a surprise if it topples Resistance 2 in the software charts.

We’ll know soon enough.

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Via PSU