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Sony honors Japanese top sellers

By Walt Wyman, GameSpotPosted Jul 26, 2006 12:32 pm PT

Sony Japan doles out feel-good accolades for more than a dozen of its best-selling games at its 2006 PlayStation Awards show.

Final Fantasy XII led Sony Computer Entertainment Japan's list of winners at this year's PlayStation Awards. The July 25 awards show recognized PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable titles that have become best sellers, based on sales data gathered through April 30.

This year's awards placed the titles into three categories: double platinum, for games that have sold between 2 million and 3 million copies; platinum, for 1 million to 2 million; and gold, for 500,000 to 1 million.

Square Enix's Final Fantasy XII--set for an October 31 release in the US--took home the only double-platinum award, despite being one of the most recently released games on the list. A dozen other games--11 PlayStation 2 titles and one on the PSP--scored appearances in the other two categories.

In the platinum category, the two latest Winning Eleven titles were honored, along with Square Enix's Disney-themed role-playing game Kingdom Hearts II. Among the gold-category honorees were Resident Evil 4, Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 12, Dirge of Cerebus: Final Fantasy VII, and five other titles, including the lone PSP game, Monster Hunter Freedom.

A complete list of this year's winners--with their platforms, publishers, and Japanese release dates--is below:

Double Platinum
--Final Fantasy XII (PS2, Square Enix, March 16, 2006)

Platinum
--World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 (PS2, Konami, August 4, 2005)
--Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007 (PS2, Konami, April 27, 2006)
--Kingdom Hearts II (PS2, Square Enix, December 22, 2005)

Gold
--Resident Evil 4 (PS2, Capcom, December 1, 2005)
--Monster Hunter Freedom (PSP, Capcom, December 1, 2005)
--Monster Hunter 2 (PS2, Capcom, February 16, 2006)
--Samurai Warriors 2 (PS2, Koei, February 24, 2006)
--Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 12 (PS2, Konami, July 14, 2005)
--Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (PS2, Square Enix, January 26, 2006)
--Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi (PS2, Bandai Namco, October 6, 2005)
--Tales of the Abyss (PS2, Bandai Namco, December 15, 2005)
--Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 (PS2, Banpresto, July 28, 2005)

97 Comments

  • 01_855403

    Posted Jan 6, 2007 9:04 am PT

    see that sony and PS 3 are great

  • Oblivon

    Posted Sep 9, 2006 4:47 pm PT

    I can't believe the Monster Hunters sold so much, seing how litle advertising the first one had...

  • DarkKy619

    Posted Sep 8, 2006 6:51 pm PT

    Tales Of The Abyss WOOT!

  • desilee

    Posted Sep 2, 2006 2:43 pm PT

    Ended

  • jonathanseese

    Posted Aug 28, 2006 3:38 pm PT

    I want I want I want Final Fantasy XII ! Don't care how. I want it now !

  • Kyranik

    Posted Aug 21, 2006 2:07 pm PT

    Pretty much what I would excpept from a Japanese PS2 chart.

    Winning Eleven, Final Fantasy (Among other SE games), a DBZ game and the Super Robot Wars series.

    @azafirster: Super Robot Wars is a RPG series with lots of Super & Real Robot series included, such as Gundam, as well as Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, Gunbuster, Ideon, Combattler V and others.

  • thug_angel123

    Posted Aug 20, 2006 5:29 pm PT

    two winning eleven titles now that was a shock

  • ryuburger

    Posted Aug 13, 2006 3:10 am PT

    MH Freedom has sold immensely in Japan and worldwide. Sony should be thanking Capcom for releasing it on the PSP.

  • sEnix-master

    Posted Aug 7, 2006 5:08 pm PT

    I just knew that a Square Enix game will get the Double P!
    Great job sEnix! You're the greatest. But how come KHII only got a gold? Too bad. At least FFXII got the DP! And ONLY FFXII! Yoshii!

  • MWhite62

    Posted Aug 6, 2006 5:29 pm PT

    I can't believe that KHll didn't get DP and FFXII got it. this is an outrage

  • RaiKageRyu

    Posted Aug 2, 2006 4:30 pm PT

    First off, for some of you guyz that complain that MGS3 isn't here, it's because it already got its platinum title last year. These awards are handed out on a yearly basis as the number of units rack up. I guess the only thing you are viable to complain about is that it stayed in platinum and hasnt reached double platinum yet. (which ain't suprising since MGS is one of those japanese products that are more popular outside of japan, like the anime Ghost in the Shell)

    And oh yeah... Three Cheers for Squeenix!!!

  • Gleba2388

    Posted Aug 2, 2006 4:04 pm PT

    Good score, Sony!

  • renatodias

    Posted Aug 2, 2006 11:28 am PT

    where videos?

  • esmarsu

    Posted Aug 2, 2006 11:10 am PT

    Everything was announced. I mean, all was predictable

  • FightFan00

    Posted Jul 31, 2006 7:04 pm PT

    WHERES MGS 3!!!!!!!???????????????/

  • azafirster

    Posted Jul 31, 2006 12:31 am PT

    If only i knew how to read japanese.Then i wouldnt have to wait this long.Startin grow a beard witing for FF XII.Horray for Winning Eleven.Wonder if that super robot wars got anything to do with Gundam??

  • Cardigan1

    Posted Jul 30, 2006 1:54 am PT

    RE4 on ps2 only hit gold beacuse in japan everyone else already bought it on gc

  • ewjim

    Posted Jul 28, 2006 11:33 am PT

    FFXII must be TRIPLE Platinum!

  • edhc44

    Posted Jul 27, 2006 8:26 pm PT

    Dirge of Cerberus obviously got gold onlye because it holds the "Final Fantasy VII" name... I mean, everyone says it sucks and it didn't stop people from buying it... actually, it won't stop me from buying as well...

  • lvlUNE3B

    Posted Jul 27, 2006 5:13 pm PT

    FFXIII does hold a higher rank.

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