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Today the release of the Media Create software charts finally revealed the debut performance of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and its definitely a solid one. But how does it stack against its predecessors? It bounced back from the low sales of Ground Zeroes, and came close to the glory of the past.

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By Shawn Layden "Where were you 20 years ago? I was in Tokyo, already enjoying my PlayStation as it had launched over nine months earlier in Japan, December 3, 1994, and I am sure I was still chasing the final black racer in Ridge well into 1995. By the time the PlayStation launched in North America on 9/9/95, I was splitting my time between Tekken and Battle Arena Toshinden and trying to get a US copy of ESPN Street Games (incidentally, the first game I worked on at SCEI to localize for the Japanese market"

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Role-playing games come in many different flavors, shapes, and sizes, but the easiest way to differentiate them is by the region in which they were developed. Japanese role-playing games are often turn-based (though that is clearly changing as studios favor more action-heavy systems), while Western RPGs take on a multitude of different forms.

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This week's Japanese sales include a big PS4 bump and Metal Gear Solid V's debut.

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Where were you 20 years ago? I was in Tokyo, already enjoying my PlayStation as it had launched over nine months earlier in Japan, December 3, 1994, and I am sure I was still chasing the final black racer in Ridge well into 1995. By the time the PlayStation launched in North America on 9/9/95, I was splitting my time between Tekken and Battle Arena Toshinden and trying to get a US copy of ESPN Street Games (incidentally, the first game I worked on at SCEI to localize for the Japanese market.)

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This week's Japanese sales include a big PS4 bump and Metal Gear Solid V's debut.

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The Nobunaga's Ambition series has always been deeply rooted in its Japanese roots, and its depth and complexity determined its position as a series that most would have never imagined coming west in its modern incarnations.