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Sequel sells three times original in debut week.

October 23, 2009 - The big mover and shaker in the Japanese sales charts this week is a Western title. Uncharted 2 debuted for the Japanese PS3 last week. Backed by a full localization and a reasonably sized marketing campaign, the game managed to sell 54,000 units in its first week according to Media Create.

While 54,000 units may not seem like much for a game of Uncharted 2's caliber, it is more than three times the first week's sales of the original. In our tours of Tokyo, we saw sellouts in a number of locations, an observation that Media Create echoed in its analysis. Aside from Uncharted, the top ten chart was mostly older titles. Here's the full list covering October 12 through October 18.

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Get a chance to play the season's biggest Sony games.

October 16, 2009 - Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), a title sponsor of the 2009Alli Summer Dew Tour, will provide fans a chance to be part of the action and put today's top athletes in head-to-head competition at the final stop of the Tour, the PlayStation Pro, at the Amway Arena in Orlando, FL from October 15-18, 2009.

SCEA will also host the "PlayStation Play the Pros" competition, during which six popular professional action sports athletes will face off against one another and compete against consumers in a variety of games on the PlayStation 3 (PS3) system. Fans will be able to enter into a drawing for a chance to win an opportunity to meet and face-off against their favorite athletes in intense, virtual competition at the award-winning PlayStation Experience truck, located in the Vendor Village, at the following times:

Friday, October 16th, 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. EST
Saturday, October 17th, 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. EST

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Naughty Dog's genre defining action shooter demonstrates power of PS3 mixing story telling and gameplay to provide the adventure of a lifetime.

October 13, 2009 - FOSTER CITY, Calif. - Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) announced today the North American launch of UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves exclusively for the PlayStation 3 (PS3). Developed by Naughty Dog Inc., the acclaimed development team that produced UNCHARTED: Drake's Fortune for PS3 and the Jak & Daxter franchise for PlayStation 2, UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves blends together the art of cinema and gaming to bring players a level of realism never before seen on a game console. With an extensive, story-driven single-player mode and thrilling competitive multiplayer and cooperative modes, UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves demonstrates Hollywood blockbuster moments of roller coaster tension and exhilarating action through environments and characters brought to life by the most advanced graphics currently available on the PS3 system.

UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves picks up the story of Nathan Drake, a fortune hunter with a shady reputation and an even shadier past who is lured back into the treacherous world of thieves and mercenary treasure-seekers. In this adventure, Drake embarks on a journey that will push him to his physical, emotional, and intellectual limits as he seeks to discover the truth behind the lost fleet of Marco Polo and the mythical Himalayan valley of Shambhala, and ultimately recover the legendary Cintamani Stone. Along the way Drake encounters a rogue paramilitary leader and fugitive war criminal who's seeking the treasure for his own nefarious purposes. Accompanied on this quest by allies both old and new, Drake is forced to confront crises of loyalty and betrayal within an underworld of smugglers and thieves.

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