Despite the less-than-flattering 29/40 review from Famitsu and some serious issues with the title's servers, the PS3 exclusive White Knight Chronicles is off to an absolutely shining start.

Selling 132K copies the first day, preliminary sales numbers for the week of December 22-28 in Japan are in.  White Knight Chronicles leads the pack at 212K copies sold in just 3 days.  Even more impressive, if this is still just the initial shipment, that means the title had an 85% sell through rate.  This establishes White Knight as the best selling Japanese-style RPG this generation thus far, outselling The Last Remnant and Tales of Vesperia, which both sold 106K copies opening week.  Further, White Knight's launch is the second largest PS3 launch, following Metal Gear Solid 4 and tying Devil May Cry 4.

Unfortunately, even in the face of White Knight Chronicle's success, there is still no release date set for regions outside of Japan.  Get on the ball, Sony!

CLARIFICATION - Technically, these sales numbers are for 3 days.  However, these are the 'first week' numbers because the industry runs on a Sunday-Saturday week.  Thus, regardless of when a title releases in a week, once that week is over, thats generally considered its 'first week' sales.  For example, Gears of War 2 sold 1.5 million copies its 'first week', even though it was launched on a Friday and only had two days on the market its 'first week'.  Resistance 2's 'first week' sales were like 250K, even though it was released on a Tuesday.  So on and so forth.